Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Homemade Gift - ABC Crayons

Today, I want to share another homemade gift idea. This one's for the kids. Life in Grace hosted 12 Days of Handmade Christmas back in November, and I got this idea there. If you want to see a tutorial, please click here. There's no sense in me redoing what's already been done. :)

I - probably because I'm completely insane and enjoy making enemies of other mothers - decided to make these as gifts for Aidan's preschool class this year. I have finally finished making 15 batches of alphabet crayons. Like I said - insane. I wouldn't suggest taking on this many if you're overly fond of your fingernails. Peeling 720 crayons is tedious work.

But I like giving a unique gift, and Aidan is really excited about them. Good thing he gets to keep a bag.

If you're wondering where the packaging came from, you can find these cellophane bags at Garnish. They're the largest size. And that adorable cherry red twine? It came from The Twinery.

7 comments:

  1. OH, I wish Ella was in his class!!! he he he!!! These are too cute, love them!!! :)

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  2. Years ago I made cupcake crayons with leftover broken crayons.I collected them from my own supply and those of the classrooms at church. I took them on a mission trip to use with the children overseas. The children at church peeled them for me during a missions emphasis in VBS so I didn't have to peel any. Diane P.

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  3. You mean we could do this with the 5 million crayons we have from YOUR childhood? We should offer to pay for therapy...but then we wouldn't have all these entertaining blogs to read now would we?!

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  4. BRILLIANT!!!!! I need to do this....ASAP. Thank you!

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