[LadyShea]

I needed wax and I had bought a metric fuckton of dollar store crayons for some gift bags like 5 years ago. Dollar store crayons don't color on paper, so I replaced them for coloring purposes with Crayolas, and the cheap ones were sitting in a coffee can being useless.

Melting lots of different crayons together makes a sorta muddy army green color. But these were for camping, so utility was more important than attractiveness. In the fire the sawdust and pinecone burning smells overpower the sad cheap crayons and there is no melting, there is flames.

Now, if you wanted to make them for your fireplace or for gifts, you could get all fancy and use new paraffin or melt down colored votives...but the sawdust kinda hides the wax. You could food color the sawdust maybe. Adding salt or borax makes pretty colored flames I have been told, and you can add cinnamon oil.

Instead of pinecones you can also fill cupcake papers (paper not foil!) or coffee filters with sawdust, then pour the wax over it.