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What to do with Crayons: 35 Uses for Crayons

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What to do with crayons? How about 35 kids activities for them, other than coloring!

Everyone has at least one pack of crayons, right?

We seem to have them all over.

35 uses for crayons - they're not just for coloring! 

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What to do with crayons, besides color?

My kids don’t like to color. [Seriously, anything but coloring… any experiment, art project, or even craft, and they’re all for it.] Although, we’ve just recently discovered twistables crayons, affiliate link, and the kids love them!

Well, turns out, a lot. I’ve searched for some fun ideas to do with our crayons, and came up with 35 uses for our crayons. Things to create with crayons [some craftier things], some art ideas for crayons, and even some activities to do with crayons!

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Create with Crayons:

Art with Crayons:

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Need more inspiration for your crayons?

I have an ongoing collection on my Pinterest Color Me a Crayon board.

So, let’s be honest.

How many crayons do you have lying around, broken up, or not used.

35 uses for crayons - they're not just for coloring!

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  1. One thing to mention if you are trying the hair-dryer melt method – it’s a bit hard to control and can get messy FAST!

    I’ve tried this twice now; the first time, I melted the crayons too far and the whole thing turned into a sort of brown streak. The second time I was able to keep the colors a bit more separated. However, it’s been two weeks and I’m still finding little dots of color on the tile floor!

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  5. Hello I love the Ideas they are pretty cool but to messy for my folks the crayon melting is going to be hard I’m a artist I make pictures of nature Peale and dogs. So the melting will come in hand.

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  12. Awsome ideas for crayons. When I was little we collected old pieces of broken used crayons during the year . Near Mothers Day we collected a school milk carton bought at school ,rinse it out an dried. We then had a washer on a piece of waxed twine. At one end was the washer and on the other end a pensil that was laid across the milk carton. The teacher had a hotplate. She first melted the blue and poured about a 1/4 of carton. Then repeated the step after allowing the crayon to set with red , pink, orange,green, etc. After allowing it to set again we then peeled the carton off. What beautiful candles we each had to take home at the end of the year.

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  16. Cover a warming tray with foil. Melt various colors of crayons directly on the warming tray. Silver and gold metallic crayons work really nice with this craft. Take a plain piece of copy paper and lay it on top. Tap it a bit to allow the paper to soak up the melted colors. Drag it a bit as you pull it off. You will have a great colorful page to cut out shapes and use for greeting cards or window crafts.

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  19. Thanks so much for including my crayon picture frame. What a terrific compilation of projects! My girls have moved on to other things besides crayons, but I can’t help myself from buying new boxes every year when the school supplies come out, LOL – so now we have some new project ideas to use them up!

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  20. I have been obsessed with crayons since my kids were babies (they are now 14 and 17). I am always looking for something to do with crayons and I have never seen such a comprehensive compilation of ideas. WOW!! :) Thanks so much for putting this together in one place!

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  23. Hi there, thanks for the great ideas. Here is another one. In my class we love to build with crayons. The children use a variety of crayons to create whatever it is they want with the crayons. After a child has completed his/her creation I take a picture and they create something else. We do this in conjunction with the letter C.

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  34. Jamie, thanks for showcasing our hand print tree. I cannot wait to check out the batik fabric link. What a wonderful collection of ideas you’ve got here!

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  35. thanks so much for mentioning our warming tray melty crayons… it’s sooo satisfying to do that! i’ll have to pull the warming tray back out again soon. thanks for the inspiration AND for all of these fab crayon ideas! we do have too many crayola nubs laying around our art cabinet.

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