How do I get crayon out???

[chris1gill]

Oh my I just got my laundry out of the dryer, only to find my DD left a crayon in her clothes & EVERYTHING including the dryer has what looks to be dried crayon that looks more like dried ink... any way to get it out??

This is the pits

 

[LadyyRedd]

I don't have any answers for you, but that's exactly the reason I check EVERY pocket of any item that has one before I put it in the washing machine!
Kimya

 

[jel0511]

To get the crayon out of the dryer, you need to use WD-40 and rub it all off. It will take awhile. They run a load of dry, clean white rags through to make sure you got all the crayon out. As for the clothes, Crayola recommends washing them again in hot water with a color safe bleach. My DD just did this last week, and most of her t-shirt type shirts were ruined, the crayon never came out. Her jeans did come clean, but her stretchpants also bit the dust. I re-washed them THREE times before giving up, she ended up ruining 3 pairs of pants, 4 shirts and 2 pairs of PJ's.

http://www.crayola.com/canwehelp/staintips/action_tip.cfm

 

[taeja71]

I had the same thing happen to me! Ugh, that was a pain. I scraped off as much as I could off of my DS's shirt and then I sprayed it w/ Zout and let it soak in water. For the dryer, I scraped out as much as I could and then used rubbing alcohol (keep your head out of the dryer) and rubbed out as much as I could. I agree w/ the other poster, run the dryer w/ rags as to loosen the crayon marks left over. Here's to your marks coming out of the dryer.

 

[pearlieq]

I've heard that for clothes you can also scrape off as much as you can with a butter knife and then set up a stack of paper towels on your ironing board. Heat the iron to medium low and put paper towels above and below the stain. Gently press the item--this is supposed to melt the wax and let it bleed into the paper towels. Once no more color/wax will tranfer to the towels, treat with a stain stick, soak, and rewash.

Good luck!

 

[j's m]

I did it myself. I found a broken piece of black crayon, stuck it in my jeans shorts pocket and forgot about it. It melted and left a quarter size stain on the pocket. After dozens of washings it never came out, it was like an ink stain. But I could wear the shorts, with a long tee shirt over them.

Good luck.

 

[robinb]

Yikes! Isn't WD-40 flamable?

Here are some less dangerous solutions:
http://www.thriftyfun.com/Cleaning/tf690227_cle.html

 

[chris1gill]

Just a quick follow up....

I've tried several potions in the dryer... the nail polish remover, rubbing alcohol, windex, none of it worked... Then I got the soft scrub out... I used a bit, it DOES work, but I'm not strong enough to keep rubbing! I also don't have enough softscrub... I tried it on the pants & it also worked, but I'm not strong enough to keep rubbing it... I'll update again after DH gets more softscrub & he uses his muscles to try to get some of this mess out!

I really like the idea of using the iron with the paper towels... I'm going to use that on the towels... One thing I forgot about, we can't use these towels unless we can get some layers of this stuff off, it'll happen all over again

 

[ChrisnSteph]

Try Spot Shot. It's a product for stains on carpets, but I swear that stuff works on EVERYTHING. When nothing else worked I used it on an old grease stain on my favorite shirt and it took it right out.

 

[cyndibelle]

yup wd40...your laundry is gonna stink but it works...it has happend to me...oh lordy was i horrified of what i saw come out of the drier..but with lots of patience and wd40 it all finally came out...

 

[Beherenow]

For materials, try scrubing them with Pine Sol then Blue Wisk (alternating back & forth). My grandmother was able to get green crayon out of a lavender/white check bedspread. It will take quite a bit of rubbing, but this works on tough stains. Once even got out black india ink!!! Have also used Murphy's Pine Oil Soap on stains, too. Good Luck.

 

[disneygals]

lestoil might work...

 

[debbiedoo]

Goo gone

just like wd40 flammable--be careful when using product

If you know someone in pro auto detail--acrysol--that is what is used--also flammable

 

[chris1gill]

Here's an update!

The Goo Gone worked to get all the crayon out of the dryer... AND, we got all the crayon out of the clothing & towels too! That took a bit more work, DH put three scoops of oxi clean in the washing machine with hot water along with regular laundry detergent... before he did that he pre-treated everything with the oxi-clean pre-treater... He ran it through... repeated this one more time & VOILA! Everything is clean... the stains that are left are in a towel which I don't particularly care about... I'm really happy DH figured this out!!

 

[debbiedoo]

I sure know about goo gone--glad it helped you--we always keep a bottle in the house nowadays with kids--

I will give you another tip that I learned from parenting--getting permant marker out of clothes and the wall!! hair spray--plain cheap hairspray!! i had this issue at one time and my boss let me in on that trick!!

Glad we could help!!

 

[TigrLvsPooh]

I haven't read all the responses, but wanted to suggest Goof Off.