There’s nothing more disappointing for a kid who’s in the “coloring zone” than to go find nothing more than a bunch of broken crayons in their arts and crafts box.<\/p>
But now there’s a great way to turn that frown upside down — by turning those broken crayons into a craft of their own!<\/p>
According to Education.com<\/a>, “This whimsical activity magically melts all the pieces together to create giant multi-colored crayons. Making these scrumptious-looking “cupcake crayons” will improve your child’s color recognition and blending skills, while teaching her the importance of reusing and recycling.”<\/p> This is a great activity that you can do with kids ages 4-6. Below, you’ll find everything you need to have — and know — to get started.<\/p> 1) Preheat oven to 250° F.<\/p> 2) Fill the lined cupcake tin with assorted crayon bits. Similar colors would probably work best, but allow your kiddo to experiment with different color combinations.<\/p> 3) Put the tray into the oven for approximately 20 minutes, until the crayons are just melted.<\/p> 4) Take the tin out of the oven and let the melted crayons cool.<\/p> 4) Once cooled, you can remove the “cupcakes” from their liners.<\/p> Give it a shot! Your kiddo’s bound to get a kick out of seeing all the color combinations she can come up with!<\/p> There’s nothing more disappointing for a kid who’s in the “coloring zone” than to go find nothing more than a bunch of broken crayons in their arts and crafts box. But now there’s a great way to turn that frown upside down — by turning those broken crayons into a craft of their own! According Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":716,"featured_media":18219,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"enable_toc":false,"care_reviewed_by":0,"care_post_updated_flag":false,"care_updated_date":"","last_update":"2021-05-19","view_count":10095,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"member-type":[4],"vertical":[6,17],"platform":[2],"class_list":["post-3206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","member-type-all","vertical-children","vertical-child-care-advice","platform-resources"],"acf":[],"created":"2017-03-09","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/716"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3206"},{"taxonomy":"member-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/member-type?post=3206"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=3206"},{"taxonomy":"platform","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/platform?post=3206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Materials:<\/strong><\/h2>
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