Crayon Melt Art

We all loved this project when we did it a few weeks ago. We made two of these, both of them for a Father’s day gift for the kids I’m Nannying this summer.

This project for adults isn’t hard but for children (or also tweens) it can be a little challenging, but that’s when I’m here to help!

It doesn’t cost very much to do and you can get all your materials at the same store. I got all of mine at Wal-Mart even though I don’t really like that store, they sell canvas and it’s a great deal… so yeah…

But here are the instructions.

Crayon Art

Materials:

·      Canvas

·      Box of crayons (We used a box of 48 crayons)

·      Hairdryer

·      Piece of cardboard (I just used the bottom of the 24 pack of water bottles)

·      Hot glue gun

·      Hot glue sticks

·      Tape

·      Pencil

Just a few things you need

What to do:

1.                Open your box of crayons and decide what colors you are going to use. With the size of canvas we used, it didn’t fit all the crayons.

2.             Then place the crayons in the order that you want them on your canvas. *Don’t glue them right away, wait until they look like you want them too*

3.              After the crayons are the way you want them, come the “long” part. Plug your glue gun in and glue down the crayons the way you want them.

4.             If you decided that you wanted your crayon art to have a design on them, this would be the time to do that. You can do it at the beginning but your crayons might get in the way after you glue them down which will make pulling up the tape more difficult. We did a letter on our crayon melt and I learned that you should make sure the tape is stuck to the canvas well so that you don’t burn your fingers on melting crayon while melting it.

5.             Once your canvas is the way you would like it, I suggest going outside to do the melting part because it can get messy, unless you like cleaning up melted crayon in the house. To each their own.

6.             I placed our crayon arts on the cardboard bottom holder of water bottles so that crayon wouldn’t go everywhere on the concrete.

7.              This is the fun part. Plug in your hairdryer and point it at the crayons… and wait. At first, (like 5 seconds after starting the hairdryer) the kids didn’t think it was going to work but it takes about 2-3 minutes before you see the crayons doing anything. You’ll start to see the wax seep on the paper and then it will start to drip. It’s a pretty cool process to watch. Make sure that your pointing the hairdryer down and across evenly while heating them so that the crayons will melt evenly.

Melting Away

"It won't melt"

8.              Then just let it dry. When it’s done drying you make have to pick off some pieces from the bottom but it shouldn’t be that big of a deal.

9.             If you did a design, then after it is finished drying peel off your tape. When we finished peeling the tape off ours, we out lined the letter in hot glue, just to give it a little shine.

Finished Project #2

Finished Project #1

Hope your crayon melt turns out wonderfully! Have fun making memories with your kids!

“The best memories are the ones you can’t explain, you just had to be there for.”

Peace and Love

Kelley