Feel free to NOT judge me. My bucket list is a little weird... Sometimes, I'm a little impulsive... and I always get more excited than necessary over the littlest things. BUT! There is nothing wrong with enjoying life's little gifts.That being said, I have ALWAYS wanted to do this. So, it became a part of my bucket list, and I did it. :)Once upon a long time ago, in a land far far away, when my mom was at work, when my sister was babysitting, I was ten years old. I had this brilliant idea to melt crayons on the ironing board. I have no idea why. Kids have crazy ideas sometimes. My mom was livid and has never let me forget because I ruined the iron AND the ironing board.Well moms, for creative children, there is an alternative! You can melt crayons with them! I have stumbled on all kinds of blogs and DIY project tutorials about how to do this. Well one day, I decided I was going to and do a Crayola Advertisement for my Commercial Advertising Class.I grabbed some Crayola Crayons, (I hear they work best. Plus they're prettier) a piece of foam board, (because you can't cut canvas) hot glue, a hair drier, and a LOT of newspaper. Since I wanted it to be a rainbow, I pulled out all the colors in my little 24 pack and organized them in a rainbow fashion. You can order specific crayons from Crayola if you wanted to do something a little less traditional.After measuring the width of my board, I grabbed the hot glue gun, and glued them all in a row at the top. After they dried, me and tons of newspapers headed into the bathroom. I spread the newspapers all around so that once I started to melt the crayons, the newspaper would catch the wax that ran off the board. Good thing too, because it would have made a disastrous mess.I grabbed the hair drier and put it on high heat and held it over the crayons. I was worried for a minute that it wouldn't actually work, but before too long, the crayons began to melt and the color started streaming down the board. It was super cool to watch.A couple things I learned: The color runs wherever you point the drier. So, if you're holding the hairdryer at an angle on the right side, your colors are going to run to the right. Yellow is NOT a strong color. This was WAY more cool than I thought it was going to be, and way less complicated than I was expecting.SO! If you're a mom with some creative little ones running around, or just a creative person that gets way to excited over little things, you should definitely give it a try! Of course it isn't perfect, but this is only round one. It's incredibly fun to figure it out. :)Give it a try and let me know how it goes! :) :) :)
