Young children often enjoy making and giving gifts to people they love. This holiday gift idea is easy, inexpensive, fun, and can be a wonderful learning experience with colors. You will need broken crayons, muffin tin, paper liners, and oven.

Place paper liners into the muffin sections. Remove the paper wrap from the old crayons and break into pieces small enough to fit into the muffin pan. Decide on the color you want for each section of the muffin pan. Fill the section with various shades of the same color for solid color crayons. For example, if you want purple, add blue and red pieces together in a section. For multi-colored crayons add any variety of colors. Place muffin pan in hot oven of 350 degrees for about 5 minutes or until crayons have melted. Let cool and remove the paper making great round chunky crayons for small hands to hold without cracking.

Package the crayons with some tissue paper, add a sketch book and you have a great present for your child to share with cousins and friends that was made by them!