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DIY Melted Crayon Heart Valentines

The past few years projects that include broken crayon pieces have been winding up everywhere- and why not? If you have kids that are hard on your crayons as much as mine are, you can go through a box of these every few weeks. Our arts and crafts projects are already on the high end when it comes to how much we spend being creative, so anything we can do to keep that expense down and include additional usage, I call that a win!DIY Melted Crayon Heart Valentines

Aside from using this idea for your every day reduce, reuse, recycle efforts, its that time of year again- VALENTINES DAY and who doesn’t love passing out something useful and other than candy? Not kids that is for sure- but PARENTS do. You can create these adorable DIY Crayon Hearts right from a silicon mold and combined with some homemade love, pass out a pretty, usable, and homemade heart in those boxes.

DIY Crayon Hearts

 


Wilton 6-Cavity Silicone Heart Mold PanWilton 6-Cavity Silicone Heart Mold Pan

Before you get started, you absolutely need a Heart Shaped Silicon mold. You cannot do this craft unless you have that is flexible to get the melted crayons out. This one is a great price and you can also use it to make other really awesome and sticky crafts. Get it before you get started:

Additional Supplies Needed:

Melted Crayon Heart Tutorial

STEP 1 – Preheat the oven to 250 degrees F. Before you start you will need to make sure the paper is off the crayons. If you are already using broken ones, awesome, but if you are starting fresh, the easiest way is to place them in a bowl of warm water and the paper will peel right off after a little soak. Towel dry the crayons, break them into small chunks and fill each heart mold with different colors of crayon pieces. Unless you are OCD and want to separate them- that choice is totally yours.

DIY Melted Crayon Heart Valentines

STEP 2 – Place the mold full of crayons on a baking sheet and bake for 20 minutes until they are melted all the way. I love silicon molds because of how easy they are to remove things out of. I used these same heart molds to create frozen applesauce last year- really they are very flexible! Remove the pan from the oven to cool. If you are super impatient, you can place them in the freezer to cool in as little as 15 minutes.

DIY Crayon Hearts and Valentine’s Day Cards Craft for Kids

STEP 3 – Pop the heart shaped crayons right out of the mold and set aside.

Very adorable right?

DIY Melted Crayon Heart Valentines

DIY Melted Crayon Heart Valentines

STEP 4 – To make some homemade Valentine’s Day cards, you can cut card stock into small squares, circles or even hearts. I have a Silhouette so that works too!

DIY Melted Crayon Heart Valentines

STEP 5 – Write a Valentine’s Day message on each card, leaving space for the crayon.

The little Zots sticky dot can go in the center, which helps secure the crayon.

DIY Crayon Hearts and Valentine’s Day Cards Craft for Kids

STEP 6 – Press the heart crayon onto the Zots dot and these fun little Valentine’s Day cards are ready to share! VOILA!

 

DIY Melted Crayon Heart Valentines

Need different size molds? Try one of these!

Wilton 2105-4909 Easy Flex Heart 24-Cavity Silicone MoldWilton 2105-4909 Easy Flex Heart 24-Cavity Silicone MoldBakerpan Silicone Mini Cake Pan, Muffin Baking Tray,Bakerpan Silicone Mini Cake Pan, Muffin Baking Tray,Eco-Friendly 15 - Cavity Silicone Heart Mold -Eco-Friendly 15 – Cavity Silicone Heart Mold –Bestjybt Silicone Mini Heart Shape Silicone Ice CubeBestjybt Silicone Mini Heart Shape Silicone Ice Cube

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