But are they really supposed to frighten children and gross-out adults? I think not.

Last weekend I was looking through Flickr and found this great photo of Jaime‘s — they made their own crayons! It looked like a simple fun project to do, so we gave it a shot.

Well.

I’m here to tell you that it really isn’t as simple as it looks. For example, did you know that some crayons don’t melt? Hey, neither did I! So we were looking through the oven door at the crayons and some had melted and some were being a little stubborn.

So I think to myself “Hey self, let’s just let it stay in the oven a little longer!” But seriously, self, that was a really stupid move because all that did was make the melted crayons start to boil and thus mix together into really, um, interesting colors. Like “poop” for one.

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And I know it isn’t just me because Chip, who has a very consistent habit of getting opposites backwards, brought one of the crayons to me the other day and said “Mommy! Lucy peed!”

And let’s just say, he didn’t mean it looked like dog “pee.”

Oh, and for future reference, I am possibly not your go-to person for crafting advice.


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9 responses to “But are they really supposed to frighten children and gross-out adults? I think not.”

  1. DD Avatar

    At first I was wondering what kind of little plates you had them on. Now I see that the “plates” are the melted crayons….there’s a project in there somewhere.

    So what brand doesn’t melt?

  2. Jamie Avatar

    Were they the “washable” kind? I wondered about that myself. We used a lot of the cheapy free crayons we get at restaurants that make it into our crayon arsenal.

    Believe me, I do not have a crafty gene in my body, but I lucked up with this project.

    I give you an A for effort. And Crayola may be inspired to rename some of their colors…poop and pee! ;)

  3. Andrea Avatar

    the cheaper ones totally melt way faster than the better ones. When we did this (years ago now – sheesh!) I sorted them in muffin tins by color. That way you get lees poop-like hues. :D

  4. Jennifer Avatar

    I remember making crayons as a kid. They always turned into the color “poop”, too.

  5. Alex Elliot Avatar

    But yet just about any crayon will melt in the wash. Go figure! I heard that if you go to the Crayola Factory in PA that they let the kids “make” their own crayons by melting down other crayons.

  6. Surviving Avatar

    It looks like you used the larger crayons. I think this would work better with the thin, smaller crayons. I know I saw something like this before on another blog, I just don’t remember where, and they used the smaller crayons.

  7. dodi Avatar
    dodi

    We tried this around Valentine’s Day. I think Family Fun magazine had it in there as a “make at home craft to take to school instead of cards”. Ours melted but as far as actually using it as a crayon, not so much. We had poop color too. I wonder if Crayola has that as an actual color, they’ve got everything else.

    The dog liked it but he is a strange one and at least he had poop colored poop instead of green, blue and orange.

  8. Annie Avatar

    Not poop – nice earthy colors! Very ‘in’ – just call yourself a crafting trend setter and all is good :)

  9. Lotta Avatar

    Am I odd? I love the colors and think it looks cool that there are little colored crayon turds in it. Looks very crafty!

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