Place a thin towel on top, take your hot iron and press to melt the crayon shavings:
Then, you cut out your desired shapes, we chose hearts since Valentine's Day will be here before we know it:
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Melted crayon window decorations
Guess what happens when you are home with the third sick kid in a week? You take the leftover crayons you peeled yesterday and grate them with your cheese grater:
Then, put them between two sheets of waxed paper, with a towel on the bottom to catch drippings:
Place a thin towel on top, take your hot iron and press to melt the crayon shavings:
(I do wish I put a bit less shavings on at once because if you do get them to melt to almost liquid, they do spread, the speckled areas could have used a bit more melting, but they were at the edge of the paper. Also, the darker colors blended together and made a brown- not very Valentiny :( )
Then, you cut out your desired shapes, we chose hearts since Valentine's Day will be here before we know it:
Place a thin towel on top, take your hot iron and press to melt the crayon shavings:
Then, you cut out your desired shapes, we chose hearts since Valentine's Day will be here before we know it:
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We have the same window decorations, except ours are ripped tissue paper between contact paper:)
ReplyDeleteDo you ever repurpose your old crayons doing the melt in shaped ice cube trays trick? That's my favorite old crayon project!
Corey- I did them in heart shaped candy pans before and in an old cupcake pan. I was going to try the tissue paper one this week and I was going to do it w/ paint too. Trying to get rid of stuff before we move. I was going to use up old streamers from bday parties and put them in there.
ReplyDeleteHa! I totally didn't even see the post below this one until after I commented!
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