Melted Crayon Art

This project is not anything new, it's been all over Pinterest. But ever since I first saw it, I knew I wanted to do it. We need more color in our house and I've always loved Crayola crayons. So I bought the 96 count box of Crayolas when they were buy 1, get 2 free at Toys R Us, and a canvas with a 40% off coupon from Michael's.

I swore I had photos of the next step, but I can only find the one I took with my cell phone. First I pulled out all of the shades of the colors I wanted to use. I laid the canvas on the table and started lining the crayons up along the edge, so I could see how many I'd actually need. My line of crayons was longer than the canvas, so I pulled out some until I saw that they would fit. Then I glued them on using tacky glue. I thought about hot glue, but since I planned on using my heat gun, I was afraid the high temperature might melt the hot glue.

Here they are all lined up and attached.

Sadly, I don't have any photos of them melting. I was using a heat gun that gets very hot, and the kids wanted to help. I've read that others used a hair dryer, but the heat gun worked pretty fast.

We just let them drip until we liked the way it looked. I liked it with the white between the colors and not all the way down, but you can do whatever you like!

It was really fun to do and the kids loved it! I think I'm going to get them some smaller canvases and let them choose their own colors. Then they can hang them in their bedrooms. I have this one in our living room.

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