Crayon Rolls

I have been wanting to make crayon rolls for my kids for quite a while now, but I just never seemed to be able to get the chance.  After Christmas (ok, well really after the family wedding), I sort of mentally cleared my plate of all those projects I "have to do".  I didn't feel like I was enjoying being creative as much as I would like.  So with my new clearer perspective, I dove into making these for my kids.  And I had time to complete them as Valentine's Day gifts!
Another reason for my new creative mood has been the discovery of two "mommy" blogs.  The Idea Room and Make It and Love It.  These are both on my side bar under "...blogs I sometimes read".  (Ok really they should be titled, "Blogs I Check Daily for My Creative Fix".)
Anyway, they both have some great photo tutorials on their blogs for these and other projects and I just couldn't help but make these for my kids.  My initial inspiration came from this page on the Idea Room blog.  It has all the measurements figured out if you want to roll up longer markers or those twisty crayons.  But I was going for more of a standard crayon size, so I used this page from Skip To My Lou, which is another blog I enjoy reading and should probably add to my list.  These ladies did a fantastic job of showing and explaining each step in the process, so I won't duplicate it here.  But if you're interested in making some of these yourself, they're really not difficult and I would highly recommend these blogs.


This is the one I made for Carly.  I had the kids in JoAnn's with me a few weeks ago, and she actually picked out the fabric without knowing what I was doing.  I used the Skip to My Lou pattern, but made it about 1 inch wider to fit her pip squeak markers. 

 

  

Then I made this one for Isaac.  I found both of these fabrics as fat quarters in the clearance bin for 50 cents each!  Yeah!

 

 Goodbye plastic baggie holding my little boy's crayons!  We've got a new way to carry our colors!