Crayon Hot Rocks

Months ago, I started a Pinterest board titled "Summer Fun". I had big plans to do fun activities to keep the kids busy and blog about it.  It's July 11th...we've done some activities but I haven't blogged about it like I meant to.

School will start in a month. I start back to work next week. Suddenly, summer is coming to a quick end.

So here is the first post of some of the fun activities we have tried.  Some were good, some have failed.

Crayon Hot Rocks

On our Spring Break trip to MO we brought back a bucket of rocks from the lake with his project in mind.

(At least it was in my mind, my kids just like to collect rocks...)

I pinned the idea from this post. It's super easy. The worst part was peeling the wrappers off the crayons. To make peeling easier, cut a slit down the crayon with scissors & it should peel off easier. 

Place on a foil lined cookie sheet. The blog post says to heat at 350 for 15 minutes. The notes on the Pinterest post says 220 for 10 minutes.

I think I did the 220 for 10 minutes. They were plenty hot!

The rocks are hot!  I gave the kids a wooden skewer to help hold the rocks still while they colored them.

This was a fun project! The crayons just melted right on the rocks!  Except for the sandstone rock we had brought home. So don't use sandstone :)

They weren't overly creative with the rocks like I hoped they would be. But the rocks still turned out pretty cool with the melted crayon colors on them.

The one in the back, he colored silver...not a big change in color, but you can tell up close that it's colored.

Fun and easy activity...we recommend it!!

(PS--don't judge my cookie sheet...)