The 2nd graders at Liberty(the kid's school) are learning about economics. They have learned about consumers, producers, marketing ect. So one way they reinforce these concepts is the Krazy Krayon factory. The kids collect old crayons from home or other places all year long and take all the paper off of the crayons in preparation for the facotry. The week of the Krazy Krayon factory the parents come in and help melt the crayons down and pour them into molds. Then each class comes in for a shift each day and there are four stations the kids get to work: dunkers, unmolders, inspectors, or sorters. They rotate these jobs each day so they have a chance to do them all. The dunkers dunk the hot crayons in the mold into an ice water bath to harden them and they pass them to the unmolders, which do just that unmold the newly shaped crayons. They pass to the inspectors and the inspectors make sure that they look good and pass them to the sorters. The sorters sorted them into bags of a category they fit into like sports, nature, animal ect. Then the next week the kids package them and sell them to the whole school. The market them by make posters to put up all over school.
Christian was so excited to do all the stations, but a little mishap happened on day 2. The parents melt the crayons on burners in pots and some of the wax got on the burner and created a cloud of smoke and setting off the fire alarm. The school was evacuated for 30 minutes while the fire department came and checked everything out. So after day 2 the factory was shut down-thankfully I got to work it on day one and see Christian be an inspector. I thought it was a great way to help the kids practically learn. It was sad that it was cut short.
This is not Christian's class, but loved the hats they made and you can see the whole station
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