DIY Pintrest Craft

Hello, this blog will be about an project that I just did on Pintrest. Earlier this year I found a really cool idea on Pintrest. So I asked for the materials for Christmas. I ended up getting them and then doing the craft over break. There isn’t really name for this DIY project but it is basically crayon melting.

The only materials are: Canvases, crayons, hair dryer, hot glue (or regular glue, I used my hot glue gun and it worked well) Once you have all of the materials all you have to do is to glue the crayons on to the canvas. Now there is a number of ways that you can arrange the crayons. Some people do hearts or you could just line them up on the top of the canvas like I did. I am actually making another one for my Dad and I am going to arrange them in an arch, like a rainbow. The next thing you have to do is find out where you want to do the melting because it can be really messy.  I recommend doing it somewhere where you can lean the canvas up on a wall or some sturdy object. It helps when you go to melt the crayons if you can have the wax roll down the canvas. Once you have the location you need to get newspaper or an old table cloth to lay out. When doing this you need to make sure to tape some newspaper on to the wall (I learned this the hard way) because when you melt the wax it splatters around. The next thing that you need to do is to plug in your blow dryer and start melting the crayons. You should angle the blow dryer down from the top of the canvas if you want it to run down.

What I liked about this is that it doesn’t take that long and that the materials are common enough things. Sometimes DIY projects are impossibly hard or have weird materials in them. I also like how you can customize this however you want. I put a quote at the bottom of mine from Disney's Pocahontas “Can you paint with all the colors of the wind” I was debating putting “the colors melt like lemon drops” from over the rainbow but I will just use that on a different one. I also saw where people put a silhouette of a couple underneath an umbrella.

Anyway I really liked the way that mine turned out, here is a picture of what mine looked like. Let me know if you end up trying this, thanks for reading! J