As adults, it becomes hard to use pencils once they have been sharpened too many times. They are too small for our hands to comfortable handle.
Does this mean that we must throw them out? Of course not! We can pass them along to young children. They have smaller hands than us, so they can still [...]
Archive for April, 2009
What to do with Small Pencils
Posted in Goals: Save and Help, Homeschool Frugality, Reduce Reuse Recycle, tagged children, pencils, recycle, reuse on Friday, April 3, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Making New Crayons
Posted in Homeschool Frugality, Reduce Reuse Recycle, tagged broken, crayons, gifts, new, reuse on Thursday, April 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Be sure that you are saving all of those broken crayons. Take the paper off and reuse them to make new crayons. These make great gifts.
You can use muffin tins, or baking pans with small, decorative sections.
Simply spray each section with nonstick spray, and place the crayon bits in them. Then melt in the oven [...]
