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Wednesday, February 13, 2013 @ 12:49 PM PERMALINK



I came across these darling crayon hearts awhile ago and have been itching for a reason to make them.

Remembering that Valentine's Day in secondary school meant exchanging little arts and crafts or buy sweets to exchange with our friends in school gave me the perfect excuse to try my hand at making these while adding a bit of nostalgia into my life.

These heart crayons are so easy to make so they'd make the perfect little Valentine's gift if you've left them to the last minute. (Which is what I always do) 

I apologize for the quality of the pictures in advance, I did these quite late at night and the lighting in my house is pretty dismal. To make matters worse, the bulb in my table lamp also blew. Needless to say my little point and shoot camera didn't fare too well.



This is all you'll need to make these crayons:

- A silicon mould tray (you won't be able to use this for cooking after doing this, so don't use one you aren't ready to part with)
- Crayons
- An oven

I wasn't sure how many crayons I would need but I ended up only using one box of 24 for 28 crayon hearts. I bought all my supplies from Daiso so the entire project only cost me $4. Low cost and really quick and easy to do, what's there not to love?

Start by picking out with colours you'd like to use. I used three crayons from the same colour family and that was enough to fill up about 3-4 heart shaped moulds.


Use a scissors to cut the crayons up into little chunks. I won't lie, this does get a little messy but with so many colours around, it was a pretty happy mess to clean up although I now have crayon scraps stuck to my floor.

I reckon that putting the crayons in zip lock bags and smashing them with something heavy would work just as well and would be neater so you may want to try that.




The smaller you cut up with pieces, the easier they melt in the oven so try to cut them up all small as you can. I had some larger pieces in the mix and not only did they take a longer time to melt, the chunks also made the back of the crayons very bumpy.

Also, the size of your crayon chunks will affect the way your heart-shaped crayons look. I'll show you an example at the end but don't worry about it, no matter what, they'll still end up looking adorable.


Once you are happy with how your crayon pieces look in the mould, pop them in the oven at 140 degree Celsius for about 15-20 minutes.


Once all the pieces of crayon are melted, take them out of the oven and let them stand for about 15 minutes. Once cooled, the crayons should pop right out of the mould.

Earlier I mentioned that the size of your crayon bits will affect the look of your final heart shaped crayons and here is an example.

The heart-shaped crayon on the left was made with the left over crayon scraps I ended up with after cutting the Daiso crayons up and the crayon on the right was made with the usual larger chunks.

So feel free to experiment and see which look you like better.


While I haven't had time to dress mine up yet, I imagine they would look nice on a plain background with corny little sayings like "You make my life colourful"or "Without you, life would be blue" on them.

There you have it!  A cute last minute Valentine's Day gift to remind your friends how you feel about them!  Have a great Valentine's Day everyone!

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