Weddingbee Blog

Obviously, our wedding is going to be very colorful. That’s kind of the point of the whole rainbow thing. To add even more fun and color to the event, I had a very early idea of including crayons somehow, but I wasn’t sure exactly what I was going to do. I know a lot of people have some kind of coloring or activity book for kids, but I thought it would be more fun to include some kind of activity book/coloring component into our programs so everyone could enjoy them. (We all pretend that it’s only the children who get bored during the wedding ceremony, but let’s be honest—sometimes us adults do, too, especially while waiting for the ceremony to start.)

We haven’t finished making our programs yet, but I did get started on the crayons this week. Since I want everyone to color, I will need crayons for everyone, so I knew I needed to get started as soon as possible. I didn’t want to just hand out a box of crayons and be done. I wanted it to be unique. Of course, I thought I came up with the world’s most awesome creative wedding idea ever, but then I logged on the world wide web and found out I’m not that clever. Oh, well, I still like the idea, so I’m going with it.

First, I bought this mold on Amazon. Obviously, if you have a theme for your wedding that would be better suited to a different shape of mold, you would want to get that. Hearts are kind of an unofficial theme of the wedding, so I went with them. I stuck with a silicon mold because it can be put in the oven. Then, I stripped all the crayons naked, like so:

(This is an easy job to get other people involved in. Our best man was hanging out at our house and expressed an interest in helping with wedding stuff. I gave him a box of crayons and he went to town. Once he found out he could use a knife to strip the paper, he enjoyed it quite a bit.)

Next, I put the crayons in the mold. I used half a crayon in each mold.

Oh yeah, you should have pre-heated the oven. I always forget that part. I kept the oven between 200 and 250 degrees Fahrenheit. Put the mold on a cookie sheet and put it in the oven once the oven has warmed up.

Pull it all out of the oven once the crayons have melted completely. This takes maybe 10 to 15 minutes. Let them cool. You can throw them in the fridge to speed up the cool down time.

Once they are completely cooled, just pop the crayon out of the mold. Voila! Heart shaped crayons.

Pretty simple. My tips for this DIY:

• Make sure the crayons are completely cooled before you try to remove them, or else they will break. But, if you break them, just throw them back in the mold and melt them again.
• Two mold makes it go much faster. You can be melting one set while the other set cools.
• Crayola crayons melt better and don’t separate as easily. I used a few other brands of crayons that I had laying around and they ended up kind of funky. All the wax was on one side and the other side was all pigment. You might be able to fix this with a lower cooking temperature, but I didn’t really mess around with it too much since I mostly had Crayolas anyway.

That’s it! In the next half of this DIY, I’ll show you how I’m going to package them up.