This art project is a part of our bilingual preschool weather unit. My son is so proud of this project! We try to keep out home Montessori aligned so we hung it at eye level for him. Even months later he still brings it to us to show us his little canvas. I forgot to take a photo of the finished product just after he finished so this is a photo after 3 months (a couple of the buttons have fallen off).
Supplies
- Blue Crayola Crayons (must be the Crayola brand)
- Canvas
- Blue objects (like buttons and tissue paper)
- Elmers Glue
- Hot glue gun
- Blow dryer
- Cotton balls (or white pompoms)
Instructions
Step 1: Break up a few different blue Crayola crayons and glue them to the top of a canvas with the hot glue gun. *Crayola crayons melt really fast, the knock-off brands do not.
Step 2: Under supervision, allow your child to hold a blow dryer to the crayons as they melt on the canvas. Once the crayons start the melt you want the point the blow dryer down and off the the side a little so they will drip in different directions.
Keep in mind if your child reacts poorly to the loud blow drying sound, then please do this part away from your child as to not over stimulate them. We had to do this in another room because my husband is sensitive to sound. Luckily, we didn’t get melted crayon on the couch!
Step 3: Once the wax has dried you can let your child glue the cotton balls on the canvas. You won’t be able to pull the unmelted section of the crayon off of the canvas. I glued a big cotton ball over the crayons so you couldn’t see them.
Step 4: Gather the blue objects you have chosen for this project and let your child glue them on.
And that’s it!
This was such a fun project and my son and I both look forward to our next crayon melt project.
