I am sad to say that my first part of student teaching is over on Tuesday. I wanted to give the class and students something special and fun. Since Dr. Suess's birthday is coming up I bought the class two new Dr. Suess books that are not super common. The first is called: Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! The second book is called: I can read with my eyes shut! For each of the kids I decided to make crayons from older, broken crayons. I peeled the crayons, then placed them in a silicon mold. The crayons bake at 250 degrees for about ten minutes. Place the silicon mold on a cookie sheet with foil on top! Let the crayons sit in the mold until they have cooled. I made enough crayons for my students to each have six. I tried to give each bag a variety of colors. The crayons can have a variety of colors in each one or be a solid color block. I put them in a sandwich baggie with a little note. It would also be great to add large coloring pages without much detail. This is because there are typically not fine points on the silicon mold, so more basic shapes are easier to color! To make this a more educational gift, you could have the students pick one crayon and color with it for a few minutes. Then have to student name the crayon. They can then write a journal entry about why they named it that, how they discovered the color, where they discovered the color, what it colors, etc. This is a fun journal because the students can make it their own and really use their imaginations!
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| Old Crayons |
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| Broken and fit into the silicon mold |
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| The crayons after they have cooled in their molds |
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