On Saturday in the post, from a friend, I received some ‘lego men’ which my daughter quickly deduced were made from melted crayons.
I was quite taken with these creations and set about working out how to make our own ‘melted crayon somethings…’ What a sensible use of long forgotten crayons lying about the house forlornly in discarded boxes and what fun I could have with Anna, age 10, and possibly even Elliott (w hat virtually 18 year old doesn’t still enjoy randomly melting ‘stuff’.)
So we dug out some crayons.
Then we stripped the crayons of their paper and began breaking them up in to lumps and inserting them into a silicone ice cube tray containing dachshund shapes usually for water.
Then we put the silicone dachshund shapes full of crayon pieces on a baking tray and put it in the oven at 160 degrees centigrade.
It only took a few minutes for the wax to melt. You can top up your shapes if they aren’t as full as you would like but bear in mind this will alter the colour variations obviously. Just pop them back in to melt for a bit longer if you do add more crayon pieces.
Melted crayon dachshunds in their mould.
They need to be left to cool completely. You can put them in the freezer which I suspect would have been a good plan as couple of our heads and legs snapped off when trying to prize them from the mould.
But once free we found them absolutely charming and set about making more immediately with not a stray crayon left in the box.
Melted crayon dachshunds and one of my Stay at Home raku ‘cafes’.