We love crayons. The bright colors, the smell of the wax when you open a new box. They are so simple, and so fun! We color with them, like they are designed for, but we do lots of other things too. Remember the old shaved-crayon-ironed-onto-waxpaper craft? How about crayon candles or leaf rubbings?
Then there is crayon paper peeling – this is a huge activity in our house. I will come downstairs to find the entire floor beneath our table littered with tiny flecks of colored paper, and only one page partly colored in.
By the way – yes, my kids are wearing white fabric scraps in that photo – they were pretending to be “Romans soldiers who fight the bad guys” I would explain it more, but I never did get the whole story.
Like every other house containing young kids, our house has hundreds, okay, maybe hundreds of thousands of broken crayons. We are creative – we love to play with our art supplies – but crayons break, that is just part of the reality of life.
There are dozens of websites out there telling you the exact procedure for reusing crayons. Simple. Fun. Recycling.
I thought we were pretty creative with our old crayons . . . And then I saw the work of Herb Williams:
Kinda’ puts the tool of preschoolers in a whole new light doesn’t it.
Broken Crayons
I'll take my grandchildrens art work anyday over Herb what his name. They are sooo special. They look so hard at wook in that picture.