directions:
1. You will need: letter molds (I got mine from Silly Cone), old crayons with the wrappers peeled off, a baking sheet.
2. Break the crayons into small pieces and fit them into the letter mold. Use more crayons than you think, they melt down.
3. With the molds on the baking sheet, put them into a 350º preheated oven for 15 minutes. After the crayons are melted take them out of the oven and let them sit for a minute. Put the molds into the freezer for 15-30 minutes so the crayon letters will harden faster.
4. When the letters are hardened, pop them out carefully. This isn’t as easy as it looks (sometimes the letters break). If a letter breaks you can just remelt that letter in the mold in the oven, refreeze, and try popping it out again.
5. There you go.
6. Bag them up, tie with a cute ribbon, and add an upcycled notebook.
I made 13 sets of these letter alphabets (338 individual letters) for the party. This is a picture of them all layed out on my carpet so that I could see what letters were missing, because like I said, sometimes they break.
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19 Comments
Love this idea!!mwahx
Wow, they look gorgeous bagged up like that. What a fun idea. I’ll be linking to this post.
I love your alphabet crayons. I’ve made a few shapes but the ABC’s are awesome!
Great idea, my wife used the molds to make soap, great as holiday gifts
awesome idea! i absolutely LOVE it. Where can I get molds like that???
You can get the molds at http://sillycone.ecrater.com/ They’re great, huh?
I love, love, love this idea! I can’t wait to reuse our current stash of broken crayons!
This makes me want to plan my own eco-friendly art party (since my birthday is next) it’s my 30th but hey that party sounds like a blast!
First of all – fabulous website and I LOVE this adorable idea. My girls (5 & 7) and I have been enjoying this project all week, making gifts for their cousins. My one question for you: is there any trick to getting out the "curvy" letter like ‘S’ or ‘U’? As careful as we are when getting them out of the molds, these letters seem to break every time. Any advice would be welcomed! Thanks.
Very cute! I will be making these. =) ~Cori
Wow, I am impressed at the number of crayons you made! I have those molds and made crayons last year for valentine treats and it was so hard to get out some of the more complex or curvy letters. Do you have any tips (besides sticking the trays in the freezer) for getting the crayons out of the trays?
Lucia–I had a hard time getting some of those letters out too. I found it easiest to loosen all of the sides carefully and then pull the silicone mold down around the crayon letter (if possible and with no other crayon letters in the mold) and then pull it back up. Then I would pop the letter out as carefully as I could. I remelted a LOT of crayon letters because they kept breaking.
just wondering..could you use the moulds for cooking edibles after this project?
We have made lots of shapes with our left over crayons, but never alpabets. These are too cute. I think they would be great for “first day of school” goody bags for the kiddos.
We have made lots of shapes with our left over crayons, but never alpabets. These are too cute. I think they would be great for “first day of school” goody bags for the kiddos.
I really love this idea!!! Millon thanks for sharing!!!!!
Amazing idea!!!! Just love it.
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Thats another option…cubes with letters
I bought the same letter trays and made my students’ names with the crayons and gave them to the kids for Christmas ! They LOVED them.
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