How-to recycle those crayon stubs into a swell homemade gift

Step 3 Peel away

Peel the paper off of the crayons. Might want to grow your nails out for a few weeks prior to this because after what will seem forever peeling paper you're sure to develope some serious fingertip soreness. Ouch! This is probably the most time consuming portion of this activity so make sure those kids help. Tell them "look at how much fun we are having bonding together over crayon paper peeling and stuff. And this isn't even the funnest part of the project."

Comments

[bekahbv]

I used a box cutter to cut along the wrapper then let the kids peel them. It took way less time and helped a lot.

[Metrychick]

My daughter was peeling and complaining a little and we filled up a container with hot water and some dish soap and soaked the crayons in the water for about 20 minutes, then you can just start to pick out the crayons. The wrappers fall right off.