DIY Heart Crayons + FREE Printable Valentine's

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With less than a week to go until Valentine’s Day, ordering cute gifts is becoming less of an option. Enter my free printable valentines + DIY Crayons.

While these printable valentines were intended to be gifted alongside some freshly made crayons (hence the ‘color my world’ pun), they work just as well gifted with a small bag of allergy friendly Valentine’s Day candies.

I would recommend that you print these on cardstock or heavier paper if you plan to attach crayons to them. You could pop on one of these double sided adhesive stickers right onto the valentine and put the crayons on top of that.

How do you make homemade crayons?

Homemade crayons are insanely easy to make and have the added benefit of reusing something that all parents have in their home - broken crayons.

Supplies:

Broken crayons (with wrapper peeled off)

Silicone mold

Instructions:

  • Preheat oven to 200 degrees.

  • Prep crayons by removing wrappers and breaking into small pieces.

  • Put the crayons in the mold - put similar colors together for a more aesthetically pleasing end product or encourage kids to try color blocking, color matching, etc. to make it an activity. Then put the mold onto a cookie sheet as this will help stabilize the flimsy silicone mold.

Pro Tip: have small kids do this. This is a great fine motor building skill.

  • Bake for 10ish minutes or until the crayons are completely melted.

  • Carefully remove the mold.

Use a toothpick to swirl any of the crayons for a fun tie dye effect.

  • OPTIONAL: I put my molds right into the freezer so that I could use them faster.

  • Pop them out once completely cooled.

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There you have it - thoughtful and sweet valentines for your kids or their classmates with little more than a click of the mouse and preheat of the oven.

If you don’t have themed mold, give regular muffin tins sprayed with cooking spray a try.