So my daughter and I have been eyeing those amazing melted crayon arts on Pintrest for the last few months and so finally we decided to do it. So we headed off to Michaels to get supplies. First on the list was crayons (or as my 16 says "crawn", I decided because she has been in Utah for most of her life and has got some of the Utah accent). While deciding on what theme to do we decided to do the YW values, and to make it like a garden. SO after getting 4 cheap boxes of "crawns" we picked the flowers. Next we picked a canvas frame that would hold all the flowers. The one we picked came with 2 so when my 11 year goes into YW in a few months we can make her one. We got home and painted the canvas, stripped the crayons of their wrappers. Our first lesson, don't use a glue gun because it just melts the crayon and not attatch it to the canvas, she put a layer of elmers glue and layed the crayons down. We broke the crayons in half to give us more but also to allow us more space. We waited until today (between conference sessions of course) and got the blow dryer out and started melting the crayons. BEWARE that this is not a clean acivity. The wax will splash so don't do it near carpet or anything that might get ruined. It comes off easily off of tile. The one tip she found out was to use a diffuser so it doesn't blow everywhere and to also do it on LOW.
After melting the crayons to the desired length attatch the flowers with a glue gun. Then add words if you want. Some of the ideas were: Daughter of a King, Garden of Values, or anything related to YW.
It turned out beatiful and she is so proud of it.
Hope your turns out just as beatiful and amazing.
