Having reached the end of the internet this morning and the girls were playing nicely together I decided to get a jump start on another art project. I wanted to try it out before getting the girls involved. I found this project here. It really did not turn out as I had planned. I had to try it 3 different times before it finally worked out as somewhat planned.
We have no shortage of broken crayons around here. I talk until I’m blue in the face about not leaving their crayons laying on the floor. They get stepped on once by little Zia and it’s broken in half. No matter how hard I try not to step on the damn things, they are everywhere and get broken in no time. Even a newly opened box isn’t immune from the steps.
I took a few broken orange crayons and made me a nice little pumpkin shaped blog (edited to add this should say blob). Shaved a few black crayons to make the face and a little stub of brown to make a stem.
Layered a piece of wax paper over the top (having shaved the crayons on a piece of wax paper) and used the iron to melt all the shavings.
The directions on the webpage say to “move the iron constantly.” Oh, I tried that. And it failed miserably.
It was a Halloween massacre.
I ran back to the computer to find out was the problem and it turns out my iron was set to high. I had no idea. I never use the damn thing. I’m surprised I could even find it.
I went through the whole procedure again, shave, shape, cover, iron and it wasn’t any better than the first. This time I had used a real orange crayon instead of a red-orange. It didn’t look as much of a murder as the first.
The 3rd try was much nicer. I only used orange shavings and made a blog (really, blogging is in my head that much? BLOB!). Ironed on low, moving constantly and came up with something like this. I used a black sharpie to make the face.
By this time the girls were on to me. I was doing something without them! They had to be included so I made two little guys for them to decorate.
As I was cutting out the final product, I noticed the wax paper was pulling away from the melted crayon. I pulled off the piece of wax paper (not sure I was supposed to do that) and it actually looked better.
I’m not really sure this is a good art project for my girls. Neither has mastered the crayon sharpener, nor do they possess any patience (gee, I wonder where that comes from?) to wait for me to come up with the final product for them to paint. I’m thinking we might try again later and perfect the skill.
