Just in the past few weeks I've been seeing a lot of people melting crayons on canvas, so I figured I might as well take a shot at it too!
I found a two pack of 16in x 20in canvases at Michael's for $10 and bought a 64 pack of Crayola crayons. Crayola is the only brand that will work correctly for this craft because other brands are too oily.
For the first step I needed to figure out what order I wanted my crayons. I didn't really want to go by wrapper color, so I found this neat website that gives you the order of colors and went from there!
This is what my order looked like when I was done. Feel free to do any order you'd like to other than rainbow I just tried this one first.
I then held the canvas up to the crayons and turns out 64 is six too many! So I took out all the brown crayons. Now onto step two...the gluing! I used super glue instead of a hot glue gun so the glue wouldn't melt in the blow drying process. It is best to make sure the flat end of the crayon is at the very edge of the board (something I didn't pay attention to) so mine were laid slightly wavy. Whoops!
Now the fun and messy part!
Do this on a lot of news paper, trash bag or outside because the wax will fly everywhere. Turn your blow dryer on a high setting and either warm or hot. Hot will take less time. Begin blow drying the first color section than make your way across. Most boards I've seen the colors ran straight down, but as you can see below I decided to blend my colors together. Just that small portion took five minutes tops.
After I made my way across the whole canvas I started to run the wax down the canvas and blend the colors together more. Thirty to forty minutes later I have created an awesome "Melted Rainbow"!
And there ya have it! An awesome and really fun craft to do that takes an hour or two. Hope y'all enjoy!
xo G
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