Tuesday, October 5, 2010

I'm not a baker but I know how to make cool crayons:)

picture and similar idea found at craftydaisies.com


Our parent group is doing a recipe book as a fundraiser this year. We were asked to put a couple of our favorites in the book. I choose to stay away from food because my husband does most of the cooking (for good reason:)). Instead I placed a recipe for what I call 'Chunk Crayons'. I'm sure most of you have made them, if not here is a preview to the RES Recipe Book this year.

7 comments:

  1. Ha ha!! I'm chairing a cookbook fundraiser for my Temple. I don't think the crayon recipe would work too good there, but what a totally charming idea to include it in the fundraiser cookbook. If you wanted, you could also include clay (salt dough, cinnamon dough, etc) recipes. It would be a cool addition for a section for the kids. I've been thinking about proposing a cookbook to my teacher union as a fundraiser/PR activity.

    Do you know what company they are using for the cookbook? I'm working with Morris Cookbooks and it's easy, except it's hard getting people to hand in their recipes.

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  2. Phyl, we used a company called http://www.typensave.com/. It was very easy for me to fill out a recipe. I don't know about the fundraising side. That is where the parent group comes in.

    I did put play dough in too. We were asked no more then two for the book this time.

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  3. Cup cake liners! I love it. I put my crayons directly into the cupcake pan and it kinda ruined the pan. I didn't care so much until, go figure, my youngest requested cupcakes two days later. Thanks, Mrs. Hahn.

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  4. typensave is the online process for Morris Cookbooks, so it's the same company I'm working with. Very easy.

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  5. I like that you added YOUR strength that was really smart!

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  6. I love this idea! When we made chunky crayons last year we used Dollar Store silicon gear-shaped cupcake pans that I only use for non-food. The crayons came out very cleanly, and the shapes were fun. Only comment - don't be tempted to melt only the poor quality crayons to use them up - poor quality crayons are still poor quality melted together.

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  7. We did this today out of the art kit you gave us. Thanks!

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