New Crayons

• Create new crayons from an assortment of old crayon bits and pieces. Remove the paper sleeves from the old crayons and place them inside muffin tin compartments lined with foil. Add crayons to fill each compartment up to 3/4 full. Bake the crayons in a 200 degree oven until the crayons melt together. Keep an eye on the melting crayons so that they do not burn. You can also melt bits of old crayons together in a microwave. Place the bits in a paper cup, then microwave on high for up to 6 minutes until the wax melts. Place the cups in the freezer for 20 minutes to harden the new crayons. Remove the new crayons from the paper cups. You can use similar colors, or make new rainbow crayons.
  
  

Candles

• Recycle old crayons into color variations for homemade paraffin wax candles. Melt paraffin wax in a double boiler and stir small pieces of old crayons into the wax until it reaches the desired color for your candles. Pour the colored paraffin wax into a candle mold prepared with a wick and allow it to cool. Commercial candle molds are available, but you can also use ice trays, baby food jars, pickle jars and a variety of other household objects to shape or contain the homemade candle.
  
  

Ornaments

• Create ornaments for holiday decorations using old crayons and seasonal candy molds. Melt bits of old crayons together in a paper cup in the microwave or in a double boiler. Pour the warm wax into the candy mold compartments and place the molds in the freezer. Allow the wax to harden for at least 20 minutes. Remove the ornaments from the mold and make a hole through the top center of each one with a straight piece of thin craft wire. Insert a 3-inch length of fishing line through the hole in the wax ornament and tie the ends of the line together to make a loop. Hang the ornament on your holiday tree.
  
  

Art

• Create art projects with old crayons that resemble stained glass. Turn the old crayon chunks into shavings using a pencil sharpener. Place a sheet of wax paper onto a hard surface, such as an ironing board without a cover. Cover half of the wax paper with crayon shavings and fold the second half of the paper on top of the shavings. Cover the folded sheet of crayon shavings with a sheet of tin foil. Iron the foil on medium heat until the crayons melt; always keep the iron moving. Allow the melted art to cool, cut the edges to fit a frame and hang the wax art in a window that does not receive direct sunlight.