rain, rain go away

today our backyard looked like this:

it has rained all day long.  and right now it's snowing.  um, virginia- it's almost spring, get with it. 

so, with three little ones stuck inside we needed some activities to do.  i found my inspiration here at pocket full of posies and here.  we tried her crayon making- we used our old crayons, a little lesson in recycling for the boys.

here's what we did:


grab your crayons




sort out the bad ones- broken &  torn paper




pull off the paper.  this part is tricky.  jordan finally pulled out a knife and cut it off.
 i wouldn't have put this picture in, but look at jack's face.  that's a boy who loves his daddy.




crush the crayons with your favorite tools.  will says, "i'm gonna damn, damn, damn them."
sweet will, the word is bam!




crush the crayons into little pieces.  put them into greased mini muffin tins.




bake 300 for 7-8 minutes. when you take them out, they are liquid.




let the crayons cool, pop out of the tins!  we made the big ones for annie to color with!

 ok, so my suggestion would be to seperate your colors a little better than we did.  when we started coloring it was mostly blue!  it was a fun activity to pass the time on a rainy day!