Summer Fun @ Mommy Camp: Making Crayons

A great way to use up crayon bits and turn the blistering heat to creative use!

Cover a craft cookie sheet or cardboard with foil, as well as one end of toilet paper tubes.  Place tubes upright on cookie sheet and fill with unwrapped crayon bits.  Leave in sun until partially melted.  If it gets too liquid, the wax will seep out.  We tried this for about 5 hours on a 90F day, but it was not quite long enough.  The next day, also hot, we put the tray on the dashboard of my car for about 2 hours--that was too hot and too long--the crayons totally liquified!  I think an hour in the hot car, with frequent checking, would be enough.

Summer Fun: Hanging with Sis

We should have put random arts and crafts on our summer fun list so I can cross it off!  This morning (as well as yesterday afternoon), Sis and I made doodads with perler beads.  I haven't figured out the whole perler aesthetic, though--are you supposed to be able to see the holes or just melt the beads into oblivion?  We tend to the latter.

Otherwise, today we had breakfast together at a local cafe, with Sis eating out the insides of a huge croissant.  We picked up some items at the store.  And saw 3 bunnies and a crossing of geese during our travels.  The goslings are all grown up and indistinguishable from the other geese.  Sounds pretty rural, no?

We played bakery outside in the mud, surveyed and tended to the garden, and then came inside.  Now Sis is taking a break (or, really, humoring my taking a break) to old seasons of the original "Fraggle Rock," as she gears up for more activities this afternoon, including an oil-and-colored-water experiment we just got oil for (wasn't going to use my expensive grapeseed on science!).