Looking for a new way to make your own art? How about just wishing you had some truly unique pieces to display in your place? With a few simple ingredients and a free weekend afternoon, you’ll be able to turn your old crayons into new and beautiful items.
Eye-popping wall art – Take your favorite colored crayons and hot glue them to the top of a canvas in a straight line. Grab a hair dryer and turn it on hot & high. Move the hair dryer back and forth over the crayons until you get the desired amount of wax to drip. Let dry and then display. (Turn upside down and add flowers for a fun spring look).
Unique and colorful crayon vase – Boil about two inches of water on the stove. Break up your crayons and put them in a Pyrex measuring cup, filling it up to about two or three inches high. Place the measuring cup in the pot of simmering water and heat until the crayons are melted. Remove the Pyrex cup from the pot and let cool for a minute. Using an oven mitt or towel to hold the handle, slowly swirl the Pyrex cup, coating the sides with
thin layers of the melted crayons. Continue to swirl until the entire inside is coated and all of the melted crayon at the bottom is gone. Put in the freezer for one hour, and then remove.
Crayon candles- Get a candle kit at your local craft store including boil bags, wicks, and white wax. Tape one of your wicks to a pencil or a chop stick and lay it flat across a glass jar or tin of your choice. Melt the white wax in one of the boil bags. Pour the wax slowly into the jar, adding broken crayon pieces to the mix. (The wax is hot enough to melt the crayon) Fill to the top adding as many crayons as you’d like to get an interesting, artistic look. Allow to dry.
These are just a few of the cool things you can do with an old recycled material like crayons. You’ll turn your old coloring collection into beautiful, breathtaking art pieces, that will give your apartment some added personality.