Melted Crayon Art

The girls and I normally spend Fridays with my dad - we call it Poppa Day.  Miss A loves getting to spend this time with him and looks forward to Fridays all week long.... and I love having a little help with A and N, plus I love spending time with my dad.  Last Friday, we did a backyard art project during Poppa Day.  We made a melted crayon canvas... I am not sure who ended up having more fun - Miss A or me.  ha!

It was easy to do didn't cost much at all.  (I also got to play with my new toy, so I had some fun taking pics of everything. If you have any great DSLR tutorials, please pass them along!)

All you do is hot glue Crayola crayons along the top of an art canvas and then let the heat from the sun work some magic.  I propped the canvas up using a flower pot and made sure to cover the picnic table with newspaper. 

It took about 45 minutes, in the heat of the day, before anything started to happen.  We had actually just stepped outside to check on it when the first crayon melted down the canvas.  And once the crayons started melting, it only took about 45 minutes until we thought it was done. 

We carefully moved it to the shade to dry...

I thought the little "rivers" of brightly colored melted wax looked really neat, so I snapped away...

Now, all I need to do is made room for it on the gallery wall in the game room.