A couple years ago I filled
A lovely muffin tin
With something that would lead to my
Forever great chagrin
To give the background to this tale
The kids in band all need
A crayon to mark their spots to stand
Which on the ground they’ll read
The normal size will break too fast
So in an oven’s heat
We take a bundle of the wax
Arrange in molds so neat
We melt them into one large crayon
And once they’ve time to cool
We use them on the parking lot
As a specialty tool
It is with this my tale begins
I wanted to create
Enough for all the mellos to
Have one, or two, or eight
I bought two gross of crayons for it
Stripped wrappers from the wax
And broke them into melting chunks
Now here’s where I get lax
We had some molds that I could use
I had done it before
The silicon was functional
Past tests had been a bore
But when I turned the oven on
I didn’t know exact
The heat that I would need for it
And I my judgement lacked
So 450 in Fahrenheit
Seemed right to this young bloke
That is until I looked again
And from the oven, smoke!
So that is how I learned about
When silicon will melt
And know the smell of burning wax
A bit silly I felt
The tin was done, the molds were too
The house was full of smoke
My crayons were left unusable
But nothing else had broke
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Second things second, yes, this did actually happen and yes, silicon does undergo interesting chemical transformation and become much easier to tear after subjecting it to incredible heat. The wax in the crayons melted holes through the silicon muffin molds and meant that the crayons, when removed from the tin, literally had the molds embedded inside of them.