Jungle All the Way

Saturdays are days for projects around the house in our family. This past Saturday, we tackled our art supplies (and Phil repaired the roof - a much bigger, more important project!). We found that we had lots of broken, blunt and used up crayons.

So, we got to work peeling, sorting and snapping our old crayons.

We put them in little muffin cups.

Set them in the hot oven for a few minutes.

Let them cool, peeled them, and found that we had perfect crayons for our Bitty Man to use!

While we were at it, we chopped up some more crayons.

Then cut out some designs

Since we don't have black paper, i had to color mine in. :)

Laid the bits in like stained glass

Laid in a bit more.

Then melted it with a hot frying pan (because i don't have an iron). It looks messier than it's supposed to be. Whatever. We're in the jungle. Christmasy crayon projects are the best we can do sometimes...

Then on Sunday, we visited some friends and ate durian until we thought we'd pop. Then we brought 8 of those spiky, stinky things home. Then Monday we got 4 more. It's a good thing we like those things... and that we live in a place full of people who like to receive the gift of excess durian! :)