Crayon Art

I used to love using crayons when I was little. I used to scribble everywhere! As I got older, I shifted towards colored pencils and soon my crayons were all stuck in some box that I never opened until now. Most of my crayons were broken in half (Don't you love that satisfying snap of a crayon? My 5-year-old self certainly did.), so I decided to snap all of them to make the crayons even.

Materials:

- 27 crayons (it doesn't matter if they're broken or not)

- a blow dryer

- lots of newspaper

- a canvas (8 inches by 10 inches)

- a hot glue gun

1. Peel the crayons. Yes, I know. It's a long and boring process, but it's worth it for the end product. An easy way to do this is by letting the crayons soak in a bowl of water for 5 minutes. The crayons are usually super easy to peel off after that.

2.  Arrange and hot glue the crayons in rainbow order.

3. Find some silhouettes online, print them, and glue them onto the canvas. I printed out an elephant chain with the one in the front holding an umbrella. Be creative!! :)

4. Stand the canvas up against a wall with newspaper against it. Make sure that there is newspaper, because the crayon wax goes everywhere when it is melted.

5. Melt the crayons with the blow dryer facing downwards. I was using an umbrella in my art piece, so I aligned a cup with the umbrella to create an effect of the colors rolling off the umbrella.

Your finished!!

 
                                  I made this one before I posted! ----->
















Thanks!!
- Shruti






* I got this idea from this youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NXcZWxBGSA