Need a fun craft to use up your cheap crayons
Personally I REALLY liked the Rose Art crayons
Hot glue your crayons in a line at the top of your canvas making sure to point the tips of the crayons down. Did you know that you can even buy crayons in bulk
Turn your blow dryer on and watch the crayons melt designing your very awesome new art project!
Ok so it sounds totally easy. But my blow dryer on low would not heat up high enough to melt the crayons so I turned it on high and S.P.L.A.T.T.E.R. extreme! Oh my! I tried holding the blow dryer out further away but it just didn’t help that much. SO in case yours splatters I highly suggest doing this project in a box or with scrap paper held around the sides or something unless you would like melted crayon wax flying everywhere!
TA-DA!
The crayon drippings dry almost immediately once you turn the blow dryer off so we were able to hang out creations on the wall in our art corner right away!
Have you done this fun project before? Did you have the same splattering issues I did? I hope it was fun!
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Jennifer Jean says
I bet your boys loved it! I doubt crayola would work as well. They don’t melt as easily (which I love especially when we leave them in the car ).
Chris says
Crayola works THE BEST!
Chris says
I did this one afternoon — my crayons/canvas and a heat gun. Now THAT heats those things up in no-time flat. I was done with my artwork in about 4 minutes, lol.
http://chrisscraps.blogspot.com/2012/08/29-projects-crayon-art.html
Jamie says
We have done this before with Crayola crayons. We took the wrappers off to make them run a little faster. There was a lot of splatter though! Overall the project was a huge hit with my kids. 🙂
Crystal @ Surviving a Teacher's Salary says
My husband even asked me to make one for his office!! 🙂
Ginny says
I bet it would look cool if you turned it upside down—like the crayons are exploding the colors upward!
Crystal @ Surviving a Teacher's Salary says
I’ve seen someone do that and then turn them into flowers – it was pretty cool!
Melaine says
It looks great! I saw a tutorial on a different website that said to use a diffuser to eliminate splatter. I had the same issue you did, (without the diffuser), so I will definitely try it next time!
Crystal @ Surviving a Teacher's Salary says
Certainly worth a shot!
Teri says
I’m just wondering if anyone has tried using the blow dryer BEHIND the canvas to heat the crayons…. would there be less splatter? Would it even work?
Crystal @ Surviving a Teacher's Salary says
Hmm that IS an idea Teri! I certainly didn’t think of that!