Simple Muffin Crayons

I love recycled crayon crafts or maybe just crayons! Muffin crayons are a simple, fast craft that all ages can benefit from ― even better. Of course, adult supervisor is required, especially with the little ones. This is a parent and child activity.

crayon scraps, non-toxic only
muffin liners or cooking spray (we used liners)
muffin tin

1. Preheat the oven to 275 degrees.

2. Collect all your broken crayons, peel the remaining paper off, and sort the pieces by color.

3. Break crayons into small pieces, roughly 1″ or shorter. (Tip: we did longer pieces and it wasn’t as swirled, so shorter is better.)

4. Spray tin with cooking spray, this will give you a smoother finish, more “puck” like or line with cupcake wrappers. We uses liners, but as you see, the edges are rougher.

5. Next divide your crayons into each muffin slot. (Tip: limit the color selection in each slot to 3 colors. Anything more than that will create an unattractive brown color.)

6. Fill your muffin tin about 1/2 full, equivalent to four crayons per muffin tin. We only did 2, so they are much thinner.

7. Place the muffin tin in the oven for 5-8 minutes or until the crayons are completely melted. Watch closely, they melt fast.

8. Take them out of the oven once melted (parent), then stir each tin with a toothpick to swirl the crayons.

9. Let them cool completely in the pan, crayons will be extremely hot! Then turn the tin over and pop the new fun crayons out of the tin!