Kids Crafts for Summer
With students now out of school for the summer break, kids crafts are the perfect way to keep them busy. It's useful to assemble a list of many different craft ideas since kids get bored so easily. It's even better if you can find crafts that involve recycling and re-purposing things you already have around the house.
One idea is to have kids save their bits and pieces of old crayons and then make new ones from these scraps. You just peel off the old paper and sort by color into a molding tray. Any kind of mold will do, including old ones you no longer use in the kitchen. It's fun to throw in some lighter colors like white or yellow for a swirl effect in the finished crayon. You bake them in the molding tray for 10 to 15 minutes at 150 degrees until they melt, then let them cool.