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5 Things To Do with Crayons

They're not just for colouring! Crayons can be used for quick repairs to furniture and floors or to do some fun craft projects. Got left over crayons? Read our tip for recycling them.

From: Extraordinary Uses for Ordinary Things, Reader's Digest Canada

Did You Know?

Edwin Binney and C. Harold Smith co-invented child-safe crayons in 1903.

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