crayons, crayons, crayons

so, i'm the ward librarian at church. at the beginning of the year, someone purchased and replaced all the crayons in the boxes. then they placed the old ones in a bag, and dumped them on a shelf to be forgotten.

i decided to bring them home and recycle them. 

here's what the garbage can looked like after we were done peeling all the papers off.

we ended up with 7 or 8 trays worth of "new" crayons. i put similar colors together. so, all the purple colors are mixed, all the blue colors are mixed and so forth. the blacks and grays are mixed. and in each "new" crayon, there is a small white section.

this pan got a little bent out of shape, and ended up spilling everywhere, including all over the inside of my oven.

my poor floor after the spilling accident.

of the 7 or 8 trays, we had 2 christmas shaped batches. the rest are simple circles.

the kids thought it was so cool to be able to make "new" crayons that they wanted to help. it got to the point that they finished them up. although, i continued to run the oven.