Homemade Valentines

I have a very active five year old son. In order to help with his attention and hyper ness we have cut artificial dyes out of his diet. Short side of the story is if it has a color word on it we usually don't feed it to him.
Well holidays such as valentines day bring out tons of candy. Not as much as Halloween, but still an excess.
This year we made the same candy less valentines as last year for my sons's class. The idea came from Pinterest. Melted broken crayons in heart molds, make awesome multi-colored crayons.
A few tricks we have learned to make this go easier:
1. Use a utility knife and cutting mat to take the paper off. This is so much quicker.
2. Use new crayons. Buy them at back to school time. I always buy like 20 boxes to use through the year.
3. Don't bother cutting the crayons into small pieces, break them in half and put the halves in separate molds. Much easier and quicker and works just the same.
4. Use a scrap booking tape runner. I prefer my pink A&G gun. I put one strip on card and stick smooth side of crayon down.
5. Also add a do not eat note on these. I have given them to 4 and 5 year olds and find this disclaimer important. (Nothing terribly bad happens if you eat a crayon, I ate one on valentines day in kindergarten, ok maybe 4. I did throw up but am perfectly fine.)
Hope you enjoyed this post and have another useful idea for candy free valentines.