Hey my sister-in-law bought that! She teachers kindergarten and of course has LOTS of broken, short, and old crayons --- she said its REALLY cool. You can melt all the same color, of course, or you can try and make new colors. Really neat idea!

It's a great idea, but sounds like poor execution. The one review on the Amazon link doesn't give it a sparkling review. I think we can make our own crayons if we got the right molds, and used our own heat source... maybe something the heats a little more evenly? Any ideas?

That thing looks so cool... but we haven't gotten that far yet with the crayons. We're still at the stage of ME doing most of the drawings for her :-/ One thing they have that is pretty cool - have you seen those wonder markers? If your kid tries to draw on themselves (or another individual) ;-) with them, the ink shows up clear.. it only turns into a color on their special paper...

Dude, that is cool! I want one of those!

At our local childrens museum they take little paper cups and put crayon slivers in then microwave it for a couple of seconds. It comes out as the really cool fusion of colors in a disk that fits perfectly in your hand. Way cool!!