Rainbow Crayon Art
With this cool project you can create an art piece that’s as colorful as a rainbow and as unique as you are! Adult help is needed for children.
Supplies
- Box of 24 crayons
- White foam board or thick poster board, 8 inches by 17 inches
- A small piece of corrugated cardboard, about 5 inches by 5 inches (a piece of the foam board can also be used for this step)
- A small piece of poster board, about 5 inches by 5 inches
- Scissors
- X-acto knife (optional)
- Hot glue gun
- Hair dryer
- Old sheets or towels, newspapers, a large box, or a trifold display board
Directions
- Remove the various red, orange, yellow, blue, indigo, and violet hued crayons from the box of crayons
- Strip the paper from the crayons by slicing the paper with the x-acto knife, or removing it by hand
- Line them up in order at the top of the white foam board
- Glue the crayons with their tips facing down to the board with the hot glue gun
- Cut an umbrella or other shape of your choice from the poster board
- Trace the umbrella or other shape onto the corrugated cardboard or a piece of the foam board and cut out
- Glue the poster board shape onto the corrugated cardboard, let dry
- Glue the umbrella or other shape to the foam board, about 4 ½ inches below the crayons
- Set up a space to melt the crayons. The wax will fly, so protect the floor and walls by placing the art piece in a large box or hanging newspapers, old sheets or towels on the walls and placing newspapers on the floor. A trifold display board and newspapers works well.
- Stand the art piece upright with the crayons at the top
- With the hot setting of the hair dryer, blow air at the crayons until they start to melt
- Move the hair dryer gently back and forth across the line of crayons from a distance of about 6 to 12 inches away. The closer you are to the crayons, the more they will splatter
- The crayons will begin to melt and drip downward
- You can experiment with aiming the hair dryer straight on or at an angle to mix colors
- Wax that drips onto the umbrella or other shape can be chipped off after it dries or wiped off to create a “watercolor” effect on the shape
- Once the hair dryer is turned off, the wax cools and dries quickly
- Hang or display your art!