recrafted::crayons
Like every other family out there with toddlers, we have a bucket of crayons. I have to be truthful here, I love crayons. I was really looking forward to those lazy afternoons where we would all sit down at the kitchen table and color with our box of Crayola. You know, like a Norman Rockwell picture.
And like oh-so-much about parenting let me give all you non-parents a little insight into the crayon. Crayons break very easily and leave little crayon lint everywhere. Crayons get their wrappers torn off bit-by-painfully-little-bit and all those damn bits of crayon wrapper end up in every corner of your house. Crayons are very easy to bite into and then spit out. Not that I have a child that does that (I’m looking at you, CLAIRE). Crayons get dumped onto the floor in a giant heap so the bucket can be used as a helmet. And also, Laura informs me that some crayons DON’T WASH OFF. What the hell?!
The one thing kids don’t do with crayons? Draw a picture.
Anyway one day I had a fit. A huge, giant, child-like fit because once again an enormous pile of crayons was in the middle of my living room getting kicked around. Crayons were flying under the couch. Crayons were being thrown about. Crayons were leaving their nasty little crayon lint everywhere. I got mad and I picked up all those damn crayons, chopped them to bits in my mini chopper (oh, that was a bad, bad, bad idea) and then melted the shit out them.
choppy, choppy.
melty, melty
oopsy, oopsy.
pretty, pretty.
So now I have a small basket of pretty little crayon shapes! The kids love them. They feed them to their dolls, they line them up, they pretend they are little people, they trace them, they put them in their car/train/tractor and drive them around.
The one thing they don’t do with the pretty, little crayon shapes? Draw a picture.
looks like he's going to draw, but he doesn't draw...
At least they aren’t leaving crayon lint behind anymore.
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I once tried melting down crayons and making nice new ones too. It was so messy and stuff that in the end I decided to buy new ones and throw the old broken ones away and be done with it. That said yours look beautiful!
I love this idea! But now I’m scared to try it. Think about it and see if you can come up with a better way to do it and let me know –
. I, like you, had this fairytale dream about crayons and then I had kids. Maybe the problem is that your new crayons look so pretty and they don’t want to use them?!
I love those big boxes of 64 with the cool names for me, but give 8 fat crayons for the kidlets. That I can handle.
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Another hateful thing that kids do with crayons is break them, then hold them up and say, “Mama, fix it!” Grrr.
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I can’t stop laughing.
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LMFAO! Oh my god, that is the absolute TRUTH, girl! Jack will color for a little bit but not long. I actually bought this cute little hand- sewn crayon keeper on Etsy. It let’s you roll them up and take them anywhere. Not that we do. SNORT!
Link: http://www.etsy.com/shop/handmadebybritt?section_id=6525405
Your hearts are purty, though! I think you can do that with little bits of bar soap, too.
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