Crayola Art

Many of you have probably seen the Crayola Art canvases all over blog world, and after seeing it as a suggestion to recycle crayons, I had to do it! Although, I didn't really have any crayons to recycle so I started from scratch. 

My mom had a huuuuge canvas that she bought at Goodwill for a few dollars that she'd ended up not using and donated that for the cause. To cover it I used a 96 box of crayons (minus the blacks, browns, grays, whites, and goofy "gel" crayons) and part of 2 boxes of 24 crayons to fill in the gaps and beef up some of the colors. I sorted them by color and then randomly placed them by color group across the canvas.

Isn't she pretty? I started off with reds and pinks and ended with the more purple-reds to complete the blending. Then on the the blow dryer!

This was such a big canvas it was hard to cover the areas around it, so we moved to the back porch where it didn't matter so much!

Xavier wasn't really sure about it at first but thought it was pretty cool we were destroying something and pretty soon he would fight anyone who had the blow dryer. 

We did this as a family activity and it was REALLY fun! Most people recommended turning the blow dryer to low once the crayons started to melt, but we liked the splatter effect we got on high and it would have taken forever to cover this whole thing on low!

Here's how it turned out. Pretty cool, huh? I don't suggest anyone do a canvas this big unless you can get it as cheap as I did (FREE!), or for a few bucks like my mom. It took about an hour to get all the crayons to melt and spread but it what well worth the effort. Now I just need to find a place to hang it!