Heart-Shaped Crayons

I saw this great list of candy-free Valentine's cards for kids on a blog that I follow on Google+. Within this list was an idea to make your own heart-shaped crayons. While we did not choose to do this for our Valentine's this year, I still really wanted to make them - what a great way to repurpose the broken crayons we have everywhere! After a trip to the local hobby store to buy a heart-shaped silicone mold we were able to try it out. S and I collected our broken crayons, peeled off any remaining labels, and then I cut them into smaller pieces. We distributed them between each heart of the mold. We put them in the oven at 200 degrees for five minutes (which was the lower temp setting and time that the person who's post I link to used). For our oven, we ended up doing another 10 minutes or so. I increased in 5-minute increments. You definitely need to watch closely - it goes from not quite melted to liquid in a flash. After letting them cool, we peeled them out of the pan and voila - we had heart crayons!

Before we put into the oven.

Our finished project. 

 

Heart Sun Catcher

S and I did a really simple, yet fun craft the other day - we made tissue paper sun catchers! I saw various posts around of how to make these (from snowmen to circles to other shapes).

We simply took clear contact paper, cut into the shape of a heart, peeled off the backing, and then applied small pieces of tissue paper to the sticky side until covered.

Ta-da!

I asked her to hold it up for the camera. It cracks me up every time - she literally holds it up. :-)

Her one lil' eye peeking through.

I used a hole punch to put some ribbon through so that we could hang them up in the window.