DIY: Melted Crayon Art

One of the simplest, yet coolest art projects you will ever do.

What you need:

Canvas

Crayons

Hot Glue Gun

Blow Dryer

....THAT'S IT!

We used a pack of 64 crayons and took the browns, blacks, and white crayons out.

Then take all of the crayon wrappers off

We then put the crayons in the order we wanted them on our canvas.  We tried to do a rainbow theme and mix some colors so that the melting part would look cooler :)  You can use whatever colors you want.  If you wanted to make a football themed canvas, you could use the colors of your favorite team.  Just make it how you want it!

Then we began to hot glue the crayons onto the top of the canvas with the point facing downward.  We started putting a strip of hot glue onto the crayon and then placing it on the canvas, but the crayons were melting and it just was not working out.  If you put a small strip of hot glue onto the canvas and then place the crayon on top, it works a lot better.

This is our canvas before we started melting!!

We put the canvas outside on a plastic bag for 15-20mins to help soften the crayons before the blow dryer (just keep an eye on it because you don't really want them to start melting completely yet).

Now here comes the funnn!!!!

Tilt your canvas so that when the crayons start melting, they run down.  Make sure you have something under and behind your canvas so you do not get crayon wax all over the place (we used old plastic bags).

Start blow drying on high high with blow dryer pointed downwards.  If you hold the blow dryer facing straight towards the crayons, the wax will splatter everywhere!  Trust us, we know.  You want it melting downward!

Like this!

Melt crayons until desired artwork is created!

Let the crayons cool off and the wax harden.  We brought ours inside to cool.  It was so hot outside we didn't think it would ever harden.

And you're finished!  Now you have a wonderful piece of DIY artwork that all of your friends will be asking how you made it!

We have a few more designs that we want to try with melted crayon art, so we will make sure to keep you posted on the results!

Have fun crafting!