Melted Crayon Canvas

This is a perfect, affordable way to add a unique piece of artwork to any room.





These are so easy to make and only take a few supplies.
1. Canvases, mine are fairly small (8X10), I got them in a 2 pack from Walmart for about $5
2. Crayons, I bought the Cra-Z Art ones and used about 4 packs. If you did your picture a full rainbow you would need less but since I only wanted certain colors from the pack on mine, I needed 4. You can also break the crayon in half like I did to make them go farther.
3. Hot glue gun, to glue the crayons to the canvas.
4. Newspaper, to spread out from creating a total mess.
5. Blow Dryer, to melt the crayons
6. Tape (optional), I used tape on the yellow, black and white one to leave the white space that would become the petals.
7. Buttons, I used buttons to make the flowers on the green and purple picture and one button to put in the center of the yellow flower.

The first thing you'll want to do is decide what pattern or design you want to do. Pick out your colors. Remove wrappers from crayons. I found a trick that works to help this process is that if you put the crayons in warm water for a minute it helps dissolve the paper and it comes off much easier. If you're like me and want the crayons to be in half, you'll want to either break them or cut them in half before you glue them.

After you have your colors picked out, decided what pattern you want them to melt. When that pattern is established, you can begin gluing crayons to canvas. Make sure your hot glue is all the way heated up or else the crayons won't stick to the canvas.

When all the crayons are glued to the bottom of the canvas you can begin taping off a design. (Note I only did this for the yellow/black/white one) I double layered my tape designs so that there was no bleeding through to the canvas.

You're now ready to blow dry! Lay out newspaper on all sides and behind your picture. This is important so you don't have little wax splatters everywhere. It takes a few minutes for the wax to start melting but once it starts, it goes pretty fast. Try to keep a steady hand so the melt lines are straight. It helps to have somebody hold the canvas while you blow dry so it's more steady. When you like the look of it, you can stop blow drying. Let it dry and add buttons with hot glue. You're good to go!