Moon Crayons

We did this activity a while ago, but it was fun so I thought I'd post it.  We use My Father's World for our main homeschool curriculum, and the Kindergarten curriculum basically does a letter of the week type plan.  For the week of M, we learned about the moon and its phases.  Our crayon supply had been driving me nuts because we had tons of broken bits and just WAY too many all together.  So Felicity, Logan, and I lined our muffin pan with muffin cups, peeled the paper off the tiny crayon bits (this occupied them for a GOOD long while, allowing me time to do the dishes and clean the kitchen....always nice), and put the crayon bits into the muffin cups.  The kids had fun deciding which bits to put together.  Then we put them in the oven.  I put it on a very low heat.  After a while, we took out the muffin pan and the kids were excited to see the crayons had m/ m/ m/ melted.  We set them on the counter to cool and they were later surprised again when they found them cool and solid.  This made for a great discussion on melting, liquids, solids, etc.  We removed our new crayons from the muffin cups and dubbed them "Moon Crayons" since they reminded Logan and I of full moons.  A perfect M activity!