Crayon Art

My daughter has wanted to try out the crayon art where you melt crayons on a canvas, we decided to do it on the weekend and I thought I'd post a tutorial of how to do it.

First of all you will need:
A canvas
A packet or 2 of crayola crayons (I was told the cheap ones don't melt properly)
A hot glue gun and glue
A hair dryer
Some newspaper or old catalogues

Cover your work area with newspaper.
turn on the hot glue gun. while waiting set up your crayons how you want them on your canvas.

 

We put a tissue box above our canvas to get the crayons straight.

Start gluing, we put the glue onto the canvas but it would probably work just as well the other way around.



Once they were all stuck down we made a spot on the floor next to the power point, covered the floor and wall with paper just incase it got a bit messy.

 

We found that if the board was straight up and down the crayon dripped past the canvas, so if you put it on a bit of an angle you should be ok.

Now if you have a slow setting on the hairdyer its probably best to use that. We just held the hair dryer pointing down for this one but depending on how you hold it you will get different results.

So start melting those crayons.

 

 

The Finished product:

 

A different view:

 

And another we made later:

 

 

All up they only took around 10-15 minutes each to make. We had a lot of fun together making them.