Friday, January 30, 2009

Crafty Crafties Part 3

This isn't a very exciting part of my recent craftiness, but it's kind of crafty nonetheless. When Elli want to color, I don't mind. What drives me nuts, is when the crayons look like this:

So today I said "Enough!" I grabbed my muffin tin, my exacto knife to cute off the wrappers that weren't already torn off (she was eating lunch at the table, so no knife near baby), and began sorting and cutting.

I stuck them in a warm oven for a while:

We waited anxiously:
Pulled them out of the oven and let them cool:

Then after her nap, she had a "new" toy to play with and I had a much smaller mess in my floor after her coloring!
Since, neither of these things are exceptionally exciting enough to have their own post, here's something else I have done lately~
E for Elli :
Here's where it ended up on her wall:

2 comments:

Lisa Brawner said...

nice crayons :0. those work much better for small hands

Natalie said...

That is a really good idea! I might have to try that with my sons crayons