Crayola Crayon Maker

by Crayola

Product Features

• Create fun crayon color combinations by melting worn crayons into new color-swirl mini crayons
• Melting and molding is fun for kids
• Clear hood allows kids to watch while crayons melt
• Safety latch lid stays locked while melting for safe fun
• Unique angled-edge package design

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 9.4 x 9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B00296QV1K
• Item model number: 03-9000
• Manufacturer recommended age: 8 - 15 years
• Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,488 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)

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• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (65 customer reviews)

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

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!

Crayon Maker Ages: 8+ Requires: 1 clear, colorless 60-watt candelabra light bulb, small base (not included) Requires adult supervision

What We Think Fun factor: Durability: Ease of assembly: Educational factor: Novelty factor: The Good: Encourages fun, creativity, and experimentation with color. The Challenging: Requires adult supervision In a Nutshell: Crayon maker turns crayon pieces into new swirled crayons

This wild crayon laboratory encourages kids to experiment with colors. View larger.

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.

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

The Crayola Crayon Maker turns crayon bits and pieces into new crayons in wild color combinations.  It's easy! Just mix in crayon bits, melt them down, pour into the mold and let harden. Now you're ready to color again with swirling crayon creations!

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

324 of 329 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Time consuming "fun" for the creative kid, October 5, 2009

By	Nickels (Warrington, PA USA) - See all my reviews

Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars Educational:3.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Crayola Crayon Maker (Toy)

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.

70 of 73 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A lot of time and effort, November 16, 2009

By	Jug Band Mama (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews

Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars Educational:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Crayola Crayon Maker (Toy)

I like the design of this thing from a safety standpoint. Usability, and the fun of the finished product leave a bit to be desired.

1. The 20 minute timer is mechanical and can't be circumvented. Good for avoiding hot wax on the little fingers, frustrating beyond belief if (like me) you get the lightbulb seated wrong the first go-round.

2. Doesn't take a lot of crayons to make new ones. Why? Well, these are little stubbies. Technically, I guess we don't all neeeeeed long crayons, but the point for us at our house was to make new crayons that could infiltrate the existing collection.

3. Clean up is pretty easy if you do it right away.

All in all, I think it's a good idea. However, my daughter wanted to make gifts for her friends, and this is just entirely too time consuming for that purpose. And the resulting crayons are okay, but a lot of wax is wasted.

For the safety-conscious crayon melter, you could achieve some pretty decent results with a mini muffin tin in an Easy Bake oven at a reasonable, and more versatile, price point.

55 of 61 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Fun idea, mold did not last long, October 6, 2009

By	jaycie (vermont) - See all my reviews

Durability:1.0 out of 5 stars Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars Educational:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Crayola Crayon Maker (Toy)

The toy works as expected, but the mold that the melted crayon wax pours into warped after four uses so the wax runs out of the bottom of the mold on one side.

Users should also pick two colors to swirl. Any more than that results in a lot of brown as colors to melt together in the tray.