Crayons - the muffin remix

If you've never tried this, give it a go, its fun and makes you feel really thrifty.  We have a lovely set of Stockmar Beeswax crayons for 'best' which are great, but we also have amassed quite a collection of basic wax crayons from activity packs, restaurants, planes etc.  When these wax crayons break we snap them up into little bits, put them into the mini muffin tin, and put them in the oven at 275F for about 8-10 mins.

Then you leave them to cool and pop them out and you have a whole new set of multi-coloured round crayons.

Haven't tried it with the beeswax crayons but I suspect it would also work equally well with them.  The only thing I have discovered is that some of the really cheapy crayons don't seem to melt too well, so we have had lumps in the past, but this lot came out just fine.