A Teacher Kept Every Broken Crayon. What She Built With Them Amazed the School

Everyone else threw the stubs away. She had a plan.

For years she saved the snapped, stubby crayons other classrooms tossed in the bin without a second thought.

The other teachers teased her about the growing jar of colorful crumbs cluttering her desk drawer.

Then she melted them into bright new rainbow crayons and mailed boxes of them to children's wards across the county.

Now the whole school saves their stubs for her, and what everyone called garbage draws smiles from kids who needed them most.