February 12, 2012

decided to make some homemade valentines this year.  

we chopped up all the old, broken crayons and then put them into a mold and baked them.  

the mold below is actually the first one we used (silicone) but ended up with dull hearts.  boo.

i bought another one, shallower, and a metal pan, not silicone.  i was worried i wouldn't be able to get it out, but after it cooled, i stuck it in the fridge, and they just popped right on out...and they were shiny!

 we took a break here...
i went to get the metal pan at this point...

 dashiell and brennan were checking out the first batch.  those two were squished and broken.
i ended up re-melting it...you'd never know!

 here is the plate full of completed hearts.
we ended up with enough to give to all of dashiell's class AND brennan's class (i hadn't planned on this)