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Okay first to let you know I DO NOT ALLOW Silly Putty in the bed. So Sweet Peanut ‘says’ she doesn’t remember having it in the bed. She does keep it on her night stand but we haven’t been good about slipping it back in it’s case. She tends to sleep a little wild…All this to say I’m giving her an out as to how the silly putty got all over the bedding.

So how does one get that pink slick melted in stuff off?

Well I went to the Crayola website and followed their directions.

This is on cotton bedding. (as opposed to silk? hmmm)

1. First I scraped off what I could. It was mostly already melted into the fabric so
2. I happened to have a mini can of WD-40 lying around so I sprayed that on the spots (all of them) next per directions.
3. Then I waited a few minutes and wiped at the stain with a white terry cloth. Now it was just a light pink stain on the fabric.
4. Next I poured…yes poured some rubbing alcohol on it and wiped that with the cloth. The stain was mostly gone.
5. I poured a little laundry detergent in each spot, rubbed it in and washed everything on a regular load.

Voila!

Stain gone.

You can use something like Goo Gone too but I found that to have a high odor value and didn’t do as well as the WD-40.

So I said I would post some pictures about making the Crazy Crayons. Peanut is still happily using them to be very artistic around the house.

Here is the recipe again.

Crazy Crayons Recipe

1. Take your old crayons remove paper and break in smaller pieces. Like an inch long.

2. Mix colors to your liking in small oven save bowls. We put yellows and greens together. Reds with oranges and purple. You get the idea.

3. Place in a 350 degree oven for about 10 minutes or until melted. You can swirl them together a bit if you want. We did not.

4. Pour mixture into cookie cutters placed on wax paper or candy shape trays (can’t rightly remember the name of these).

5. Let them set up for about 10 minutes and then put in your freezer for 10 minutes more.

6. They should pop out and be ready to draw with.

crayons (Photo credit: dyetochange)

Okay so the title of this post would suggest that I have done this and am now an expert.

Quite the contrary.

Yesterday was Crayon day in school. We learned the history of crayons and also how to make crazy crayons (Have I told you how much I learning in the first grade? So fabulous. Two educations for the price of one).

Crazy Crayons Recipe

1. Take your old crayons remove paper and break in smaller pieces. Like an inch long.

2. Mix colors to your liking in small oven save bowls. We put yellows and greens together. Reds with oranges and purple. You get the idea.

3. Place in a 350 degree oven for about 10 minutes or until melted. You can swirl them together a bit if you want. We did not.

4. Pour mixture into cookie cutters placed on wax paper or candy shape trays (can’t rightly remember the name of these).

5. Let them set up for about 10 minutes and then put in your freezer for 10 minutes more.

6. They should pop out and be ready to draw with.

Side Note: When my cousin was young (she’s in her 20′s now) she and her mother would makes these in fun shapes and she would sell them at garage sales, craft sales, etc. Nice project for a young kid.

I digress. So we made these great crayons but in the process I now have melted crayon all over one of my oven mitts.

So I need to clean this off. You might have an issue like this one day too. So where do you go?

The Crayola website.

Isn’t that nice of them? Showing us how to clear up mishaps from their product.

You can download the help sheet too.

Crayola Giveaway Pack

This Giveaway Has Now Ended.

#2 Amy V is our winner (will be contacting you)

Crayola now makes green products and they want you to know. Using recycled plastic, solar energy, and reforested trees in their products to have less impact on the environment.  Just watch this video and read on about the giveaway.

Giveaway

Crayola and MyBlogSpark is sponsoring this giveaway where the winner will receive…

Crayola Green Marker pack

Crayola Green Crayonspack

and a Crayola Green Colored Pencils pack for your kids to take back to school

To Enter

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Giveaway ends midnight August 31st. Hope this is in time for school.

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