This week as we await the arrival of our fashionably late baby girl, Jason has been busy working on this awesome craft to hang over the crib:
As I was thinking of ways to decorate our little girl's room, I realized that this is probably something I should include Jason in. Something people might not know about him, is that he's really good at crafts.
He's very methodical and patient which translates into detailed, put-together projects. I knew this whole crayon melting thing would be something he would be good at because he would take his time, but also enjoy getting to melt stuff.
These were our inspiration:
To make this awesome heart, we were kind of on our own because the picture linked to pinterest had ZERO instructions. The hardest part was organizing the colors in the right order. Its not necessarily "rainbow order" but more in the order of the color wheel.
Basically you just need to order the colors in such a way that when they bleed together they won't make something gross like brown or grey. Also, you have to scribble to colors onto paper to really know what they look like. Don't just look at the crayon itself.
Once we had the order we wanted, Jason hot-glued the crayons in the shape that he wanted. The hot glue didn't mess with the crayons like you would think, and I read somewhere that its better than super glue.
As far as the melting process goes, what Jason did was use my blow dryer and He went back and forth between the high and low settings. On low you can get close to the crayon for melting it to get the "drip" started, and on high is how you can direct which way it goes. Also, he did the melting in stages so that the drips would all go outward instead of going every which-way as he turned the canvas
before it dried.
Hope all of this makes sense. It was sure fun watching him work on this, and I can tell he's really excited for it to hang in the baby's rooms as something "daddy made."
Now all we're missing is a cute baby to
put in our nursery...
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