January 27, 2012

A Heart for Art!


For some crazy reason...I decided I was going to make a crayon heart for every student at our school for Valentine's Day.  I don't do holidays in my classroom at all.....so....it kind of makes this all the crazier?!?!!?  I raided all my crayon boxes...other teachers gave me their broken crayons when they heard I going to do this....and I have some back up crayons that I don't normally use because they are not the brand I feel holds up the best in the art room.  So....I think I have enough crayons to do this.  Using hot water and soap...and allowing them to soak allowed the paper to fall right off(although sometimes Crayola paper is kind of booger to get off!!!!).  I have a toaster oven in my classroom & my heart mold.  So I'm good to go, right??!   Well, with close to 600 students at our school...and a mold that only makes six hearts at a time... my class room smells like a crayon factory 24/7 right now!! ha ha    Am I crazy?!?!?!  Wait...don't answer that!


11 comments:

  1. You are probably a *bit* crazy! ;-) Last year i made enough for my sons to give out to their friends and classmates and that took WAY too long for my liking (but they were a hit)...good luck! From, Mrs. P (www.createartwithme.blogspot.com)

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  2. I feel stressed out just thinking about that! lol

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  3. Wow! You are a generous and ambitious man! I make these in the summertime to give as gifts to the kiddos who bring me birthday treats. It has really upped the percentage of cupcakes and brownies I receive each month! Not that I need the sugar, but I do love the kids' excited looks when they get their birthday crayons! And teachers happily give me their 'old' crayons at the end of the school year.

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  4. If you aren't just the sweetest.. the kids will be tickled pink! But yes you must be nuts. I've made crayons, and honestly the time it takes to get those ** wrappers off, even after soaking, is enough to stress me out. You are a good soul.

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  5. What a job you have set yourself! Hope you can get good ventilation!
    Lou

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  6. I think this is a fabulous idea. Good luck!!!

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  7. I love that you barely teach lessons that contain holidays! So often, I feel that it is "expected" that art teachers are only crafty people to do Christmas, Valentine's day, and Halloween projects. Art is SO much more!

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  8. I was going to do that for our 600 + students-THEN I CAME TO MY SENSES!!!!

    I did make enough for my own children's classmates at their school. Maybe next year I will try this. Target had the molds for $2. I wish I had known about soaking the labels off!

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  9. i dont do holidays either! maybe its a guy thing;) this is cool, though. good luck!

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  10. I use the rainbow crayons as a reward system in my class. Every class has a poster with the tables drawn onto it. At every table are the names of the kids who sit there. If they have a class of perfect set up, working time, and clean up then they get a sticker inside their group's table. If they earn five stickers everyone at that table gets to pick out a "rainbow reward" crayon. It works out great because kids who are normally lazy about clean up get reminded by the others at their group who want to earn their crayons. I almost have 100% clean up in 2nd grade and am close to 90% perfect clean up in 1st.
    I wait until after the holidays and pick up the different shape tins so there's always a huge selection of crayon shapes for the kids to pick from. I do make mine at home though (bigger oven), using an exacto knife to cut off the labels.

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