What about dried on silly putty that is all stuck onto a towel (a towel that I made into a hooded towel, nonetheless!)? Any suggestions on that? It is a waste unless I can get it out!ReplyCancel

Thank you! It worked.ReplyCancel

I have read hundreds of posts that this solution will work….it is not working for me and I am very distraught. My three kids start school tomorrow and I washed ALL of their uniform shirts tonight in prep for school tomorrow and ALL of them have red crayon on them (white and light blue oxfords and polos). I am on my second attempt repeating the boiling water, soak 15 min, extra dawn, extra vinegar, laundry detergent and wash cycle. I am not optimistic and have about 16 shirts that I probably have to replace at this point. Any idea why this isnt working for me? I am willing to try anything at this point..replacing all these uniform shirts will be incredibly expensive.
Thanks for any tips you can provide.ReplyCancel

This worked so well! My three year old “helped” Mommy put the laundry into the dryer today, and in doing so left a blue crayon in the dryer. Surprise!!!

Used this method in my front load washer by pouring the soap, vinegar and boiling water into my washing machiene’s soap dispenser. Voila!

We only had one blue casualty, a waffle weave dress, out of an entire load of clothes including my husbands crisp white button downs. This saved my bacon! Thank you!ReplyCancel

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you so much for sharing this trick. I cried when I saw my daughter’s volleyball jersey covered in red crayon today. I did use a Fels-Naptha bar and super hot water . It turned the crayon orange-yellow but I am trying your trick now and praying it comes out of everything else. ?ReplyCancel

I’m crossing my fingers and praying (for my daughter’s sake) that this works! A few days ago my daughter wore her North Face fleece to “help” her grandfather work on a vehicle. She came home with it covered in grease. I kept my composure and told her to get the fleece and the shell (it was a NF jacket that the fleece liner unzips to make 2 jackets) and check the pockets before putting it in the washer. Well, she didn’t check the pockets and everything came out with blue crayon all over it. I have it in the washer on sanitize with the vinegar and Dawn right now and I’m praying this works.ReplyCancel

Do I HAVE to use white vinegar or will Apple cider work? I live about 15 miles from the nearest town and that’s all I have. My brand new (first time been washed) $100+ jeans have red crayon all over them! ReplyCancel

THANK YOU. 
I was doing a major bedding deep clean today, had even unzipped the covers off our Tempur-Pedic mattresses, and asked my son to change his little brothers sheet and toss it in with my last load of the evening. Fast forward and he was also tasked with putting that load into the dryer. He didn’t look and a red crayon was EVERYWHERE on the white pillowcases, the zip covers.. I was so upset. Google brought me to your site and I didn’t measure but dumped vinegar in my HE Washer’s tub, squeezed a bunch of blue Dawn, loaded the dispenser up with Tide, set it to sanitize with an extra prewash… and waited the 2.5 hours for the washer to do its thing.
At 1am it sang it’s song and I anxiously ran to see… BEAUTIFUL. One of my beloved white shams that has been piling was almost good as new (& now doesn’t match its twin, ha!).

Thank you thank you thank you.
My son thanks you too 😉 ReplyCancel

Thank you for this post!  I have a front load washer and used the instructions above and it worked!!!!!  HURRAY school uniforms saved 🙂 ReplyCancel

Thank you! These tips saved me yesterday and got out most of the orange crayon from my son’s clothes!ReplyCancel

This (plus OxyClean in the soak) worked for me in dealing with a nightmare red crayon dryer incident . 98% of the stains disappeared. Thank you!ReplyCancel

This saved us after a blue crayon landed in our kids clothes! We have a front load HE washer with no soak feature, so we made some adjustments, but it worked! We ran this on a sanitary load with oxiclean in the tub along with 1c vinegar and 1/4c (4Tbsp) dawn dish soap and tide ultra strength as detergent. This worked in one wash for clothes that were merely stained. But for the clothes that had thick chunks of wax, we needed more. So I filled my utility sink with super hot water and even added a few kettles full of boiling water to it and added some vinegar and dawn, then soaked the clothes for an hour and scrubbed the thick wax out. This took about 3 hours of scrubbing, but the wax was incredibly thick because these were fancy beeswax crayons a grandparent had given the kids (never again!). I just used a toothbrush and dawn for thin fabrics (onesies) and a dish scrub brush and dawn for thick fabrics (fleece, jeans). Then, once the wax was out, I soaked in oxiclean for an hour then ran the cycle again on sanitary with the vinegar and dawn as described and presto! The clothes look great; a few very light stains on a couple of items, but on play clothes, and they’ll probably come out in a few more regular washes. Anyway, if the regular method isn’t working for you, try the soak and scrub! And thank you for saving us from using wd-40!ReplyCancel

This worked! A red crayon was in a pocket and ruined a load of white clothes. I did 3 pots of boiling water, added a bunch of dish soap, the vinegar and detergent and the load came out crayon free. Thank you for sharing this!! ReplyCancel

This is EXACTLY what happened to me when I came searching on the internet for a solution, red crayon all over brand new school clothes! I am going to give this a shot, thank you! Do the clothes need any scrubbing though? Or just throw them back in the wash?ReplyCancel

Oh my goodness, this saved a large wash of clothes covered in magenta crayon. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I thought it was a total loss–only a couple of marks DIDN’T come out using this method.ReplyCancel

You saved us! Hubby just bought new clothes and somehow a white crayon made it into the wash. The wax came out beautifully!ReplyCancel