How To Make Heart Shaped Crayons

My youngest tells me "I love you mommy" multiple times throughout the day. I swear I will never tire of hearing him tell me this. I've even started making him promise that when he is a teenager he has to keep telling me he loves me. I'm sure the days ahead, full of teenage angst will come but today I'm going to bathe myself in hearing his sweet little voice tell me he loves me.

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When my husband and I were dating we decided that for our first Valentine's Day together we would make each other something. We were just poor college kids so we needed to be a little creative with our very limited budgets. Honestly this Valentine's Day was and still is my favorite one! You are probably wondering why, but first let me give you a little background to my husband and why his gift to me was so precious and meaningful. 

He can't cook or bake or do anything in the kitchen aside from make himself a bowl of cereal or brew some coffee. His kitchen skills stop there! I'm not even exaggerating - at all. Now that you know him a little better his gift to me will show you how much he was trying to communicate his love or me. 

Back to the homemade gift.

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He went to the store, bought a heart-shaped cake pan and a boxed cake mix and a tub of frosting along with a bag of cinnamon red hot hearts. This sweet guy made his very first cake EVER, frosted it and put one tiny little red-hot cinnamon candy heart in the middle and gave this to me as a gift. (I'm pretty sure he ate the entire bag of red-hots while the cake was baking!) I was blown away. This small gift spoke volumes to me since he was willing to step out of his comfort zone and into a very strange new world to him - the kitchen, all for me! What a memorable Valentine's Day for sure. 

DIY Heart Shaped Crayons 💗

Fast forward to the present day with 4 kids and the upcoming Valentine's Day holiday around the corner and I'm ready to start crafting some Valentine's Day themed crafts with them.

One of my favorite Valentine's Day crafts is making heart shaped crayons! If your craft cupboard looks like mine I'm sure you have a tub or box of broken crayons you just can't part with. When you have a little one (or many little ones) crayons seem to be breaking right and left but the best part is they still work!

To make these cool heart shaped crayons all you have to do is pull out your tub of crayons pieces, remove any paper labels, put the chunks into molds like a cupcake tin pop them into a 250 degree oven for 15-20 minutes and let the heat of the oven melt the pieces into one solid mixed color mold.

My kids loved making these! My girls liked to make ones that were of the same or complimentary color palette whereas my boys preferred to mix dark colored crayons with light crayons. It didn't really matter what colors they put together because all of the newly shaped crayons turned out awesome.

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Once the molded crayon is dry and no longer hot just pop them out of the mold and start coloring. The mix of colors is fun to see since they all streak together when you use your new crayon.

We gave our heart shaped crayons away as Valentine's Day gifts to our friends at Bible study and they were a BIG hit! At first the kids couldn't believe it was a crayon but once they started using them they had a blast coloring with them.

Since I had the supplies (broken crayons & heart shaped cupcake tin) on hand this project cost me $0!! Don't you just love projects like this? I certainly do.

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I've really gotten a lot of use out of these heart shaped cupcake pans too. Not only have I made cupcakes and rice krispie treats in them but I also used the mold to make seed bombs! I've put together a great tutorial in this post so you can make some too. They are super easy and also make great gifts for Valentine's Day. 

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I hope these Valentine's Day craft projects were inspiring! If you enjoyed them please take a quick moment to pin them on Pinterest.
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