Crayon Sun Melt

Good afternoon! I hope you all are having fun with your kids during this global isolation. We are and we wanted to share with you all what we decided to try the other day!

You can do this very easy experiment as long as you live some place where it gets very hot during the day. Whene we did this it was exactly 80° Fahrenheit. That is 26.6° Celsius. We have dry weather here in the Land of Enchantment, so it felt extremely HOT that day. 🔆🏜️ Back where we used to live, with high humidity, this would be no sweat. Well, you'd still sweat. You would just be used to it! 🌦️
Ehh... We're still adjusting to the new environment, haha. 😅

This is a strange experiment, but the kids will love it if they like to color! 

                 Crayon and Sun Experiment

Step 1 - Find some broken crayons and a cookie cutter mold! There has to be some old cookie cutters you don't care about anymore. I'd recommend using those. I'm not sure if you'll be able to use them for food after this. I will keep these for experiment use only! Have some old, broken crayons laying around? Use those! 

Step 2 - Take the paper completely off! I don't know why, but I've always heard to take the paper off before melting crayons. Perhaps that's only for oven use?

Step 3 - Fit them into the mold as best as you can! Put them under the sun! We had to wait a little while (15 minutes or so) until they became soft, then pushed them to fit them a little better!

Step 4 - Check on them! Set them to the texture you desire! We used a rock to avoid touching the very hot crayon goo. Stay safe!

 Step 5 - Chillax! Let them cool off. We first left this cool creation to sit outside in the shade on the back porch. After roughly two hours we decided to stick our snowman and Christmas tree in the freezer to see what would happen. My fault! I lost track of time. These are the results.



Cooling down in the shade outside.

Right after taking them out of the mold 2 hours later.

The end result after the freeze. We're missing a snowman head and a chunk of the tree. Oops! 

Next time we do this we'll throw it in the freezer right away instead of leaving it to semi cool off, haha. That's why they call it an experiment, right? We'll do plenty more experiments in the near future! At least it didn't totally break! 😅

Share YOUR crayon experience in my LDE group!  I can't wait to see what you've all come up with!!!