Making Crayons

I decided to make little star crayons for my preschoolers as a graduation gift....what started as a 1 hour project, quickly turned into taking all.day.long.  I kid you not.  A gallon of naked crayons will go MUCH farther that one might expect.

 Not sure how many I ended up with, but we had fun!  Tanner, Taylor, and Kortlen even helped!  I used a silicone cupcake mold for the stars, and found a silicone-bottom ice cube tray in an apple shape in the dollar bin at Target.  After 4 uses in the oven, it finally gave up the ghost, but gave me enough apples to give my class and one other.

I want to say there were 50-ish stars just from one gallon of naked crayons.

I baked them in the oven on 250* F for about 20 minutes, then would stick them in the freezer, and pop them out of their trays.  Worked really swell!  I wish I had TWO molds going at a time...it wold have taken less than the seven hours we labored.

The star shape is great, because you could potentially do 5 colors, then take ONE CRAYON to church, or put in the diaper bag, etc.  Although I didn't like the look of the 5 colored crayon, I tried to vary the colors in each point so a child would be able to have more than a single color.

Such a fun and simple (not to mention inexpensive!) gift...though it was super time consuming!

Graduations {Tanner & Taylor}

Taylor graduated from Apple Preschool on May 17th!  He sure was excited, and loved preschool with his friends.

Teachers Miss Becci, Miss Amy, Miss Jamie,
Miss Tawnya, Miss Kari and Taylor and his little friends. 

Tanner graduated from Hawthorne Elementary Kindergarten, on May 30th.  Mrs. Holton was so patient and kind! We both loved her and are going to miss her when we go to our new school.

Tanner HAD to stop and have a discussion about his diploma with the principal. 

Tanner and Mrs. Holton.  

We are so proud of our graduates!

Taylor's Turn

Today is Taylor's First Day at Apple Preschool!

He is very excited to make lots of new friends.  And mommy is very excited to get a whole two hours to work out by herself.

We remembered yesterday that he didn't have a backpack, so while grocery shopping last night, I spotted this cheap-o plain black backpack.  I instantly knew what I wanted to do with it!!!

Because the whole freezer-paper stencil gig didn't go 100% as planned, I ended up free-handing it and adding some pa-zazz with my sewing machine.  Took less than an hour.  (I was afraid to turn my iron up too high...didn't want to melt my $4 bag!)

I love it.  He loves it.  We're all happy he can bring home the hundreds of pictures he colors!