This morning Gracen and I got to work on valentines for her little friends…

Now the project actually calls for old broken crayon chunks, but since our collection wasn’t large enough yet, we supplemented with some new crayons too.  Gracen was an excellent paper peeler.

She was also in charge of breaking the crayons into chunks.

Then I helped by chopping them up into smaller chunks with a knife.

Then we stuffed our heart shaped mold as full as it could be.

We popped the whole thing into a warm oven…

And watched the crayons slowly melt.

And before long, it was time to take them out.

We let them cool a while and then popped them out of the molds.

Presto!  Heart-shaped crayons.  Very simple, but made with love. Tomorrow we’ll work on the cards to attach them to…