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Product Description
Amazon.com
The Crayola Crayon Maker lets you be the mad scientist of color, turning your crayon pieces into new color-swirled creations. By melting down different crayons in the Crayon Maker, kids get to make completely original crayons with mixed color combinations. Creating their own drawing utensils becomes a new step in the artistic process. Recommended for ages eight and up, the Crayon Maker lets kids get even more creative and more invested in their own masterpieces!
One Part Art, One Part Science
Built from durable blue-plastic construction, the Crayola Crayon Maker looks like a little laboratory, decorated with dripping ooze and scientific doodads. The kit comes with four classic-colored crayons, which you can break into pieces and mix together in the machine's melting trays.
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 This wild crayon laboratory encourages kids to experiment with colors. View larger. |
Built from durable blue-plastic construction, the Crayola Crayon Maker looks like a little laboratory, decorated with dripping ooze and scientific doodads. The kit comes with four classic-colored crayons, which you can break into pieces and mix together in the machine's melting trays.
When melting crayon pieces in the metal melt tray, the safety-latch lid stays locked for safe fun. And the lid is clear so kids and adults can watch while the crayons melt -- a hypnotic pleasure.
When the crayons have melted down and blended together, a yellow lever on the side of the Crayon Maker tilts the tray to pour the melted crayons into the molds. With two compartments, the melt tray allows you to pour two new color designs at a time. With four crayon molds, that's two of each. When hardened, the flexible plastic mold frame easily snaps open to reveal newly formed crayons with exciting color combinations. With their new homemade crayons in hand, kids will be ready and psyched to color like never before!
Encourage Experimentation
Kids love to play and experiment, and when it comes to the Crayola Crayon Maker, it's all about the process. It's fun to choose different crayon colors and watch as they melt down into neat new swirled designs. By the time kids get to coloring, they can be even more proud of their work knowing they made the crayons too!
While the Crayon Maker is designed well for child safety, adult supervision is still necessary and requires a little patience. Thankfully, this is a toy that parents can actually enjoy along with their children.
What's in the Box
Crayon maker unit, 8 crayons, 2 crayon holders, melt tray, and pre-assembled mold and frame.
 The crayon maker allows you to create new, swirled crayon colors. View larger. |
Product Description
Crayon Maker. The Crayola Crayon Maker lets you turn crayon pieces into new crayons. Mix different color pieces into the melting tray, melt them down and pour into mold to let them harden into new swirled crayons. Now you can color and draw with multi-colored effects! This package contains 1 crayon Maker with power cord (UL Listed E249241), 1 crayon mold, eight Crayola crayons, two crayon holders. Crayon Maker measures 7-1/2" x 6-1/2" x 7-3/4". Included crayons conform to ASTM D4236. Requires (1) 60 watt candelabra bulb: sold separately. Recommended for ages 8 and up. Made in USA/Imported.
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
567 of 578 people found the following review helpful
By Nickels
Amazon Verified Purchase
Durability:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Educational:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Fun:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Note number one - you need to buy a light bulb for this product, it is not included!
We have children that love to draw with crayons. So, if you have any of these yourself then you probably also have a huge collection of half or broken pieces of crayons. When we saw this product we thought it would be a great way to get rid of all these pieces and have fun doing it.
You put the equivalent of two full crayons into each side of the metal holder. Then you close the lid, turn the knob, and wait for about 20 minutes for the entire process to complete. Yes, that is a long time. No, I do not recommend just sitting there the whole time watching it. The kids don't really get to have too much fun here other then watching crayons melt (whippee), and turning a knob after ten minutes to pour the melted wax into the molds. Other then that most of the time is spent waiting where I would do other things while occasionally checking in on the melting progress. I will stress we didn't think the process would be that fun, and it isn't. The real fun comes after about 1/2 hour when the crayons have set and you pop them out of the mold. The new crayons are really cool looking with colored swirls, and they work just as well as a new one of of the box.
Clean up is not too bad, as you just wipe the melted wax from the metal tray and scrap away anything left. The molds you can wipe clean, not much sticks to it. Don't buy this product because you think watching the process is going to be entertaining, as you will quickly find it is quite boring. Buy this product if you have lots of broken crayon pieces and you want your kids to create their own cool looking crayons from the crayola rubble. The fun is in using these new crayon creations, not really the making of them.
We have children that love to draw with crayons. So, if you have any of these yourself then you probably also have a huge collection of half or broken pieces of crayons. When we saw this product we thought it would be a great way to get rid of all these pieces and have fun doing it.
You put the equivalent of two full crayons into each side of the metal holder. Then you close the lid, turn the knob, and wait for about 20 minutes for the entire process to complete. Yes, that is a long time. No, I do not recommend just sitting there the whole time watching it. The kids don't really get to have too much fun here other then watching crayons melt (whippee), and turning a knob after ten minutes to pour the melted wax into the molds. Other then that most of the time is spent waiting where I would do other things while occasionally checking in on the melting progress. I will stress we didn't think the process would be that fun, and it isn't. The real fun comes after about 1/2 hour when the crayons have set and you pop them out of the mold. The new crayons are really cool looking with colored swirls, and they work just as well as a new one of of the box.
Clean up is not too bad, as you just wipe the melted wax from the metal tray and scrap away anything left. The molds you can wipe clean, not much sticks to it. Don't buy this product because you think watching the process is going to be entertaining, as you will quickly find it is quite boring. Buy this product if you have lots of broken crayon pieces and you want your kids to create their own cool looking crayons from the crayola rubble. The fun is in using these new crayon creations, not really the making of them.
102 of 104 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Durability:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Educational:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Fun:
5.0 out of 5 stars
We have had great success with this toy. I have a 6 & 3 year old & they love making their own crayons. I didn't have trouble with leakage & the light did not go out until the crayon pieces were fully melted. One tip I have is to put the crayon mold into the refrigerator after it has been filled. The "new" crayons will come out much easier & cleaner after being chilled. I think this is a great toy & was pleased that it did what it promised.
145 of 152 people found the following review helpful
By momof 2boys
Durability:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Educational:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Fun:
4.0 out of 5 stars
I am somewhat disappointed with this machine. It doesn't come with the bulb (had to run to the store Thanksgiving morning for a bulb) My own stupid fault for not looking at the box more closely. Thank goodness it comes with UNWRAPPED crayons. Especially the white, it does make for a nice marble crayon when mixed with one or two other colors. My kids never unwrapped their crayons (I wish they would have) It's time consuming to unwrap a crayon. Especially Crayola ones, the qualilty shows in the excellent application of the wrapper. Safety features are excellent. The machine locks so you can't open it while the melting process is in progress. And it doesn't get burning hot.
It takes 20 minutes. 10 to melt and another 10 to let it set and harden. Trial and error notes: mix light with dark crayons for a better effect. Dark colors mixed aren't very nice. Use very small pieces less than 1/2 inch for the best melting. Another fun thing...line a muffin pan with foil cupcake liners and put crayon pieces in them. Set oven on low setting and let them melt. The four stars for fun are because my kids did seem to enjoy it. Three for durability is because I see potential for some problems in the future with certain parts of the machine.
It takes 20 minutes. 10 to melt and another 10 to let it set and harden. Trial and error notes: mix light with dark crayons for a better effect. Dark colors mixed aren't very nice. Use very small pieces less than 1/2 inch for the best melting. Another fun thing...line a muffin pan with foil cupcake liners and put crayon pieces in them. Set oven on low setting and let them melt. The four stars for fun are because my kids did seem to enjoy it. Three for durability is because I see potential for some problems in the future with certain parts of the machine.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
2.0 out of 5 stars
Too few and too small
The maker wored well, but you can only make four at a time and they tiny. It would have been better if the crayons were regular size.
Published 15 days ago by Linda Murray
4.0 out of 5 stars
Fun with the kids
I and my kids have enjoyed this. It is easy enough to use, takes just about as long as their attention span, and does not really run a risk of them hurting themselves. Read more
Published 2 months ago by S. Swift
3.0 out of 5 stars
creative
I got this crayon maker for my son. He loved it! We did have to make a few adjustments to it, though. The cleaning was really stressful. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Kent Nickels
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great toy
My two girls are having a ball with this toy. You do need to supply the bulb, but once that is in, all you need are broken crayons, My 7 and 9 year olds have no trouble working... Read more
Published 4 months ago by busymom
1.0 out of 5 stars
makes a mess, not crayons
All this thing did was make a huge mess, the crayons melted into a big blob but never made crayons like it was supposed to, piece of junk
Published 4 months ago by diva3180
2.0 out of 5 stars
Crayons are way too small for little hands!
We got this as a gift for our 8 year old and suffice it to say we were excited at first; however after going to the store to buy the bulb and waiting 20 minutes for our crayon we... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Stephy
4.0 out of 5 stars
I assume it works!
I bought this for an out-of-town cousin for Xmas, and I assume it works because I haven't heard anything about it since then!
Published 5 months ago by Matthew Schirano
4.0 out of 5 stars
HOURS of melting if you desire!
I got this a year ago for my daughter, often melting complimentary colors will give you brown not the pretty swirls like on the picture. So now I melt similar colors. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Christine K. Benes
1.0 out of 5 stars
Don't buy this.
The box on this is terribly misleading. It shows big swirled crayons that I thought I'd be making from many broken crayons. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Damon Fecitt
4.0 out of 5 stars
Ever just feel like melting stuff . . . ?
Occasionally, I get the urge to melt, and the crayon melter--boy howdy, this thing really does the trick!
A student of mine told me about this crazy contraption. Read more
A student of mine told me about this crazy contraption. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Jess P. Hanks
