CraCycle Original Crayon Recycling Mold, Double Tipped, 100% Pure Silicone, Oven Safe, Durable and Reusable (2 Pack)

No one likes using a broken crayon. I hate to see waste, so I picked out the broken crayons from the art room at school. I removed the papers and sorted them by color. For the first batch I tried putting the small pieces of crayon in the mold, put the mold on a cookie sheet and heated them in the oven. I didn't like how they turned out. (The wax melted down, but didn't fill the mold completely. Ended up with very thin crayons.) So I decided to use a small skillet I already had (5 inch diameter) and melt the crayons down then pour the melted wax into the mold. This gave me the results I was looking for! I let them cool in the fridge before popping them out. To clean the molds I placed them in the kitchen sink and poured some boiling water over them and used the cleaning sponge that was included with my order. Easy peasy. Once they were cooled I even wrapped them with strips of construction paper to make them look like a real crayons. I have made over 150 crayons and I'm sure I'll make many more in the future.

We have done two batches so far, and have another eight batches to go, I think!Great crafting project for my tweens to upcycle their crayons 🫶🏽 we have kids aged 12, 10, 8, and 5, so over the years, we had an entire container of broken and unboxed crayons to sort through. We kept the ones “in good shape” as a usable set for “company” coming to play, and sorted the rest by color for unwrapping and breaking.These triangle shapes are wonderful—won’t roll, nice large size. It’s larger than the No-roll Crayolas we had, so those broken ones go right in the silicone with no issues.Note: I did have to cook these 18 minutes at 200•F, though. Ten minutes didn’t suffice to melt the crayons enough, we still had chunky and glistening crayon pieces after ten minutes. So, I say watch your oven, cooking time will vary.

Helpful in recycling broken crayons. Packaged with very helpful instructions also. Works best with crayola brand though- really cheap ones separate and end up with a layer of plain wax. We had to leave them in the oven a little longer than the suggested baking time as some pieces took longer to melt. (Not sure if it was because of the crayon quality?)The mold is nice, but wish it was just a tad deeper/wider - final crayon felt as though it could break easily. (Hard to tell if this might be due to some cheaper crayons mixed in?) You may need to experiment a couple times with how many pieces to use- some were under-filled and others over.. leaking into the next crayon. Cleanup was easy.

Crayons are a bit larger/thicker than expected: each double-pointed opening is ~5/8" (15mm) wide in the center and 4 3/8" (112mm) long, whereas a regular single-pointed Crayola crayon is about 3/8" (9mm) wide and 3.5" (90mm) long. The non-pointy, straight part of the mold is 2.5" (63mm) compared to Crayola's 3.25 (82mm). The mold makes triangular crayons, so if you want thinner crayons, you could theoretically fill the mold less, but then you get "shrinkage" if the mold isn't slightly overfull before you warm it up (the wax expands when warm, then contracts when cool, and the warmed wax clings a bit to the sides of the mold, so your cooled crayon will be sunken in the middle with rather high ridges around the sides - still usable, but uncomfortable, and the ridges are too large to remove with a quick rubbing or scraping - needs extensive work). There is also a "CrayOn" imprint on the mold, on one side of each crayon, so under-filling means their logo comes out off-center or only partially there. Still waiting for a crayon mold that's closer to standard crayon size, but this one is still better than e.g. Ikea's long, thin ice cube molds. The CrayOn mold is thin, so it's very flexible (use a cookie sheet underneath for support) and easier to remove your cooled crayons, and I like that the points on both ends of the crayon are long and thin: the very tip tends to break off when coming out of the mold, but it's still enough of a point to work with. The 250°F for 15 minutes instructions worked well.

I love these molds! They make a good size, sturdy, and good shaped crayon. My kids and I have had fun saving our old crayons from the trash with these molds. Comes with good instructions, but the process is easy! Also, it's fun to make mixed colors. Each mold takes 2 regular sized crayons to fill it. They are silicone, so put these on a sturdy pan or you'll have a mess!A tip- the molds kinda slope down at each end, so I propped each end up with a little piece of foil and it worked perfectly so the crayon didn't leak out.

These are so cute, and I had high hopes. I got it to save my toddler's crayons since he snaps them so often. This mold is nice and big, so the crayons feel solid in your grip. However, making them is a bit harder than I expected. Just piling crayon pieces into the mold doesn't exactly work as the triangle shape of the mold makes it hard to balance enough material to completely fill the mold once melted. Also, if you try to keep two colors separate (so that you can flip the crayon over to draw with a different color), it seems to make for a weaker joint at the center, snapping more easily than mixed color crayons. My last problem with this mold is the fact that I don't have a good way to cover the crayon's center. Without the traditional paper wrapped around it, your hand slips down the slick crayon. I tried wrapping the crayons in masking tape, but it didn't really work right.