Melted crayon art can be a really fun way to upcycle old and broken crayons. I suggest playing around with techniques before attempting your final piece. Check out this tutorial for some inspiration for how to turn your practice piece into a conversation piece. It takes a little while to get used to. In general, darker colors melt faster and lighter colors melt fairly slow. (Yellow is annoyingly slow.)
In this tutorial, I’ll specifically demonstrate how to decorate a picture frame using crayons, but the techniques will be the same for most projects. You can also check out this tutorial which will show the more traditional use of wall art using melted crayons.
Supplies:
Crayons (for this one I only used blue crayons)- glitter crayons add a fun twist
Hot glue gun and glue
Hairdryer
Masking tape
Scissors
Clips (clothespins or chip clips)
A strip of thick cardboard
Tons of newspaper
Frame (I used the cardboard frame I used in this tutorial)
BONUS CRAFT:
If you used a piece of scrap paper inside of your frame while you melted your crayons, you may have noticed that you have a cool creation left over.
You can easily use this for decorative labels. All you have to do is carefully cut out sections (some areas may crack) and use it to label craft supplies or scrapbook pages.
All I did for mine was cut off a section, write a label on another piece of paper, tape it on, then attach the whole thing with packing tape.