What to do with broken or flat crayons!

These are Flip Crayons.  For children learning how to write the tiny size and two tone color encourages a dynamic tripod grasp and in hand manipulation skills.  They are so cool.  You can get them at www.hwtears.com.  Or if you have some broken crayons around, I have an idea.

Peel the paper off of your broken crayons.

Sharpen both ends of your crayon.

I like to add labels to mine.  Adding a sight word to the crayon takes it that one step further in supporting academic skills. 

Mine crayons do not have the cool two color flipping action, but they will encourage in hand manipulation in the same way.  When one side is flat it can be flipped to the sharp side.  Nobody likes a dull crayon!