TinySuperheroes Recycle Mission 2023

October 2023
Recycle Mission

This month's Mission zooms in on our superpower of Recycling! Dive in with us as we give our old crayons a second chance to color our world, showcasing just one creative way to recycle and care for our planet!

Every October, we practice recycling at TSHQ by offering past Missions for 50% off! Also, instead of a full Mission Kit, there is just a Patch to decrease our use of paper and plastic.

Submit your Recycle Mission by October 31st to earn this Recycle Patch for free!
(Shipping charges apply.)

Grown-ups: Feel free to change the Mission to make it fun for your TinySuperhero! Use the steps if they help, or try your own way. Just spending time with your TinySuperhero helps their superpowers grow!

Recycle Mission Instructions

Gather your old, beat-up crayons!
Checkout the 3 activities below.
Do one or all of the activities OR do something else to practice your superpower of Recycling!
Take & post a photo of you doing your Recycle Mission! Don't forget to wear your Cape! Tag @TinySuperheroes and #RecycleMission
Report to HQ! This Mission Kit was free in October 2031. We would still love for you to submit your Mission so we can see your superpowers in action, but you will not receive a claim code for this Mission Kit. It is available in the Shop if you'd like to purchase it.

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Recycle Mission Activities

Leaf Rubbings

Sparkle Ornament

Custom Crayons

Create Leaf Rubbings (easy)

1. Gather your supplies: leaves, crayons, and paper

2. Soak your crayons in a bowl of water for several minutes. This will make it MUCH easier to peel the paper off! Choose 3 or 4 crayons and peel the paper off.

3. Place the leaves underneath the piece of paper. Use the long side of the crayon to color on top of the leaf!

4. Don't be scared to go crazy! you can move and color on top of the leaves in any way you'd like! Share your masterpiece in the Facebook Group with #RecycleMission!

Create Crayon Sparkle Ornaments (medium)

1. Gather your supplies: a grown-up, vegetable peeler, broken crayons, clear ornament (found at Dollar Tree), paper, hair dryer

2. Soak your crayons in a bowl of water for several minutes. This will make it MUCH easier to peel the paper off! Choose 3 or 4 crayons and peel the paper off.

3. Alongside a grown-up, use the vegetable peeler to shave the crayons.

4. Make sure you're doing this on a sheet of paper. It gets a little messy!

5. Roll the paper with the shavings inside into a funnel and pour all of the shavings into the ornament.

6. With a grown-up, put the top on the ornament. Shake the shavings around inside the ornament while blowing it with a hair dryer. It doesn't take very long, so keep moving the shavings around!

7. You will know you are done when the shavings no longer move! You can repeat the process to add more! Take a photo of your beautiful oranament and share it in the Facebook Group with #RecycleMission!

Create New Crayons (hard)

1. Gather your supplies: a grown-up, oven, silicon mold, cookie sheet, bowl of water, broken crayons, pot holder.

2. Preheat the oven to 275 degrees F.

3. Soak your crayons in a bowl of water for several minutes. This will make it MUCH easier to peel the paper off!

4. Peel off all of the paper from the crayons, and throw the paper away. Break the crayons into small pieces. This is hard, so do your best and get help from others!

5. Put the pieces of crayons into a silicon mold. You can keep colors together or mix them altogether! You can use any silicon mold, including silicon cupcake liners. Fill them up as much as you can!

6. Place the silicon mold onto a cookie tray to keep it stable. Then, place the tray in the oven.

7. Bake the crayons until they are completely melted. This will take at least 15 minutes, but depends on the size of the mold.

8. Remove the tray and mold when the crayons are completely melted. (It will have melted down, so if you want, you can add more crayons on top and re-bake if you'd like.)

9. These are very hot! Let them cool down until they are completely solid. You can put them in the fridge to speed this up if you'd like.

10. Pop your brand new crayons out of their mold!

11. You just made new crayons out of old crayons!!! Take pictures and post them to the Facebook Group using #RecycleMission

Super Zoey

"This was our first mission since receiving our cape. We had so much fun and can’t wait for the next one and to earn more patches for our cape!"

Super Ariel

"Ariel wanted to clean up in the neighborhood. So, we walked around our local park and gathered some plastic bottles to be recycled."

Super Oliver

"What a fun experience I would never have thought of on my own! My little loved and it was so easy to adapt to something he could and loved doing!"

Super Tessa

"She absolutely loved seeing how the leaves took shape while rubbing."

Super Anthony

"The crayons came out so cool!"

Super Nevaya

"We absolutely loved this months Recycling Mission. We had so much fun making crayons and ornaments!"

Super Caden

"We enjoyed being creative while recycling and made some art for our bedrooms."

Super Tanner

"My kids are very curious and try to open the oven, so I used the air-fryer & it worked really well and took only mins to melt down the crayons. Loved this mission gave me something to do with the millions of broken crayons we have."

Super Jonathan

"We loved gathering the leaves and making the leaf prints!"

Super Maddox

"Really fun mission! Maddox was so happy his crayons were not going to the garbage. Reuse Reduce Recycle."

Super Kevin

"Our Recycling Mission gave us an outdoor and indoor experience, We have alot of fun bonding and doing these missions, awesome time spent together!"

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October 2023Recycle Mission

This month's Mission zooms in on our superpower of Recycling! Dive in with us as we give our old crayons a second chance to color our world, showcasing just one creative way to recycle and care for our planet!

Every October, we practice recycling at TSHQ by offering past Missions for 50% off! Also, instead of a full Mission Kit, there is just a Patch to decrease our use of paper and plastic. Submit your Recycle Mission by October 31st to earn this Recycle Patch for free! (Shipping charges apply.)

Recycle Mission Instructions

Recycle Mission Activities

1. Gather your supplies: leaves, crayons, and paper

2. Soak your crayons in a bowl of water for several minutes. This will make it MUCH easier to peel the paper off! Choose 3 or 4 crayons and peel the paper off.

3. Place the leaves underneath the piece of paper. Use the long side of the crayon to color on top of the leaf!

4. Don't be scared to go crazy! you can move and color on top of the leaves in any way you'd like! Share your masterpiece in the Facebook Group with #RecycleMission!

1. Gather your supplies: a grown-up, vegetable peeler, broken crayons, clear ornament (found at Dollar Tree), paper, hair dryer

2. Soak your crayons in a bowl of water for several minutes. This will make it MUCH easier to peel the paper off! Choose 3 or 4 crayons and peel the paper off.

3. Alongside a grown-up, use the vegetable peeler to shave the crayons.

4. Make sure you're doing this on a sheet of paper. It gets a little messy!

5. Roll the paper with the shavings inside into a funnel and pour all of the shavings into the ornament.

6. With a grown-up, put the top on the ornament. Shake the shavings around inside the ornament while blowing it with a hair dryer. It doesn't take very long, so keep moving the shavings around!

7. You will know you are done when the shavings no longer move! You can repeat the process to add more! Take a photo of your beautiful oranament and share it in the Facebook Group with #RecycleMission!

1. Gather your supplies: a grown-up, oven, silicon mold, cookie sheet, bowl of water, broken crayons, pot holder.

2. Preheat the oven to 275 degrees F.

3. Soak your crayons in a bowl of water for several minutes. This will make it MUCH easier to peel the paper off!

4. Peel off all of the paper from the crayons, and throw the paper away. Break the crayons into small pieces. This is hard, so do your best and get help from others!

5. Put the pieces of crayons into a silicon mold. You can keep colors together or mix them altogether! You can use any silicon mold, including silicon cupcake liners. Fill them up as much as you can!

6. Place the silicon mold onto a cookie tray to keep it stable. Then, place the tray in the oven.

7. Bake the crayons until they are completely melted. This will take at least 15 minutes, but depends on the size of the mold.

8. Remove the tray and mold when the crayons are completely melted. (It will have melted down, so if you want, you can add more crayons on top and re-bake if you'd like.)

9. These are very hot! Let them cool down until they are completely solid. You can put them in the fridge to speed this up if you'd like.

10. Pop your brand new crayons out of their mold!

11. You just made new crayons out of old crayons!!! Take pictures and post them to the Facebook Group using #RecycleMission

October 2023
Recycle Mission

Every October, we practice recycling at TSHQ by offering past Missions for 50% off! Also, instead of a full Mission Kit, there is just a Patch to decrease our use of paper and plastic.

Submit your Recycle Mission by October 31st to earn this Recycle Patch for free!
(Shipping charges apply.)