Crayons

I know it's a ways before Christmas but I like to plan ahead. One of my sisters requested artwork to help decorate her house. I told her that I'm pretty good with crayons. I can color with them and melt them!! Haha so I thought I'd share some of my crayon art...

I made this one by taking all different shades of green and peeling off the paper. I then broke the green crayons into smaller pieces and placed them on the canvas. This was a tricky piece to get the crayons to melt because they wanted to roll off the canvas. I worked in small areas at a time and held the crayons in place until they started melting. Afterwards, I wrote the words with sharpie and hot glued the daisies onto various parts of the "grass." I think it turned out well.

Now my favorite... 

For this one, I painted the heart in the middle first. Once the paint was dry, I hot glued the crayons around the heart. They are glued in a sort of rainbow pattern. I blow dried one side at a time so I could get the crayon to "run" off the canvas.  

Feel free to ask more specific questions if you'd like :-)

On a side note, my students are good with crayons too. Kindergarten has a science unit on states of matter. I'm going to use my crayola crayon maker with them for solid to liquid and then back to solid. Last year I used my crayon maker as a fun end of the year activity. I'll post pictures when I get to use the crayon maker with my kids. Things go interestlying (new word) when you work with 5 and 6 year olds...