Out with the old, in with the new

As anyone who knows Grace knows, she LOVES to color. We go through a lot of crayons. I am fairly picky about the crayons we use (becuase when Crayola says they are washable it actually means they are, and with Elizabeth in the house, that is important). I hate wasting money and I always felt bad about the mass amount of old, broken crayons I was constantly throwing away.

I found this idea online and Grace and I did it. It was really fun and now we have new crayons! They are perfect for Ellie's little hands, are pretty, and the girls can't break them. Win-Win-Win.
I had read online that if you do a lot of colors together sometimes they end up being an ugly brown color. So we sorted them into basic groups.
After baking them until they melted, and then we waited for them to dry.
It was a little like watching paint dry. So we eventually put them in the fridge to hurry up the process. Once they were cold, we popped them out. They color pretty well. I cut them in half to make them a little easier to use. But all in all, a fun and productive afternoon.