Melted Crayon Art

There has been a lot on Pinterest with melted crayon art and with back to school crayons prices, I figured it was about time to give it a try.

 

First I painted my canvas with a nature-y landscape. 

 

 

Then I scoured my daughters box of crayons for every hue of green I could find and supplemented with a few new crayons.

 

Since most of the crayons I was using were old broken nubs, I opted to peel the paper off.

 

Then I hot glued the crayons to the canvas.

 

  Helpful tip:  put the hot glue on the canvas and  push the crayon onto it.  Otherwise the hot glue will instantly melt the crayon in your fingers resulting a minor burns and a few choice words that shouldn't be used in front of your children. 

 

To melt the crayons I used my craft heat gun but I hear a blow dryer set on the hottest setting works too.  I held the canvas at a slight inverted angle so the melted crayons would "grow" up the canvas. 

 

Then I popped the heads off some clearance out daisies and hot glued those to the canvas as well. 

 

To completely finish the project I'm hoping to run across a garage sale or seriously clearance out picture frame that I can remove the glass and pop the canvas in its place.