When I was younger, I loved melting crayons with my dad into different shapes.
So I searched around my apartment for neglected crayons to melt down into a fun shape so that I would want to use them more!
I took a silicone mold and began melting different colored crayons together...
I took a silicone mold and began melting different colored crayons together...
to make the most epic crayon ever!
I was so excited to try it out that I covered my floor with a roll of giant paper so that I can doodle all over.
The most colorful hello ever!
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LOVE THIS. we all need to be kids more ofte.
Fun project! Crayons RULE! :D
haha this is awesome. I need to get some crayons. Is it weird that I miss the way they smell?
Never knew you could melt crayons! Pretty awesome though :) And I love how the colors all run through another when you use your handmade crayon!
you never cease to amaze me!
I LOVE IT!!! How do you do it?
I've been meaning to do this for a while now! Need to get my hands on some crayons!
This is what I thought of when I saw 'melting crayons'.
Would be nice to know how do you actually melt them? And put them there to make it that shape? I'd love to try do that myself as well! You know you'er so inspiring person. Well you probably already heard that a couple of times but... Here I am still letting you know that.
i thought this is what you did.
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looks like something up your alley!
Funny! Never thought you could do it with crayons. When I was a kid, we always did it with candles.
I used to melt crayons onto paper that i had lade onto an electric skillet. I probably could have caused a fire, but i made it work and i loved it. One of my fondest memories.
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How funny this looks! I can't wait to try it and doodle everywhere
I used to do this as well..but somehow your crayon looks more artistic than mine ever did haha
Love this! I am inspired now!
Love it! Looks like you had fun!
Renee
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We just made these the other wrapped them with yarn and then hot glued it to a heart card that had sweet notes and left them around the mall for valentines day
Katie,
I think you are AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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i need your apartment, katie. i NEED it.
You never run out of ideas! It's unreal.
LOVING all the color on your floor, walls, doorways... Pretty much everywhere :)
great idea! you're so awesome!
I remember making crazy melted crayon patterns on black paper with an iron and wax paper... too much fun and oh so therapeutic!!
I have never done this before, but I have always wanted to. This is going on my life list right now. Thank you for the inspiration!
Amazing!!! Love this idea and love the star crayon you created.
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great idea!
Amazing!
GORGEOUS idea!! Never knew you could do this :) So pretty
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.I love the smell of melted crayons, yes im wierd but you are right, that is deffinately the most epic crayon ever! Love the hello doodle too!
Wonderful idea! :-)
interesting...you have brilliant ideas
Such a cute idea! How did you melt the crayons?
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Just fabulous! Such a
Great Happy Colorful Idea!
haha! so lovely and colorful :)
Such a fun idea! I have to test this too!!
Lovely!
So pretty ^^
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I used to do the same !
It's sych a good idea !
gosh, how i love your blog. it never fails to put a smile on my face. :)
ahh! you have no idea how much i want to hug you right now!
i'm doing this as soon as i get home from vacation!
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Cute, cute, cute!
Definitely going to make this!!
I love it!!!! I used to always beg my mom if I could melt our crayons into candles. She wouldn't let me do it :(
What I like the most about your new crayon is that it is in the shape of a star! I am obsessed with stars.
Anyhow, keep posting!! I love your blog.
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That's so cool! Those would make really great customized presents for people :D
xo
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I've always loved this idea! The results are always so much fun!
Wow, that looks like it was tons of fun. When I was a kid, my friends and I used to melt crayons into bottle caps that we used in a sidewalk game of scully. Thanks for bringing back great childhood memories.
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Looks like fun
:)
I love the hello!
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So fun!! I love your ideas!
Your crayons looks so new btw! haha!! so pretty!!
This is such a great idea! I always have old crayons lying around, amazing use for them.
Melting crayons is one of my most favorite things to do. Love love love.
Oh my gosh, brilliant! I love it. I want to make one of my own!
In the 60's I used my old crayons that were broken to make candles with paraffin. I melted the old candles or whatever source I had in a clean can over a torch, holding it with pliers. (Yeah, I know today everyone would ban me for being unsafe, but I was safe, knowing it could burn me if I spilled it.)
I would pour it into a mold, such as another can or glass dish. Then I would drop pieces of crayon into it or shavings as it was cooling down. If I wanted a colored candle I would just melt the crayons directly into the candle wax while over the heat and stir with a stick. The confetti ones in clear paraffin were my favorites. I would stick a wick in while it was still hot and tie it to a pencil over the can. When it cooled I just removed it by heating the outside of the can a little by hot water and it slid right out.
Nothing professional, but it was just my craft to do when an early teen with things we had around the house. I didn't have any money to spend so I used what I had.
I also melted them together into a larger crayon like the star shown here. I'm waiting for my grandkids to grow up another year or two and I'll make some of these for when they come to visit. I have a whole large bucket full of broken crayons I saved from my kids.
The Crayola crayons are the best for pigment. Cheapo ones are terrible.
Brilliant! How creative! :)
WOW! love this last photo!! soo colorful!!!
this is awesome! you have the best ideas!
Hello! Hehe this is so cute :) as usual!
You're my poet of the everyday... Thanks a lot !
typhaine (from france)
this is so beautiful!
btw, can you do a room tour? I love your room, it looks so colourful and your pics/posts always make me happy!
xoxo Jen
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wow, thats so great, i love the idea.!!! its definetely lots of fun to paint with such a colorful, star-shaped crayon :)
I wonder how could you never run cool out ideas like this, super!
I did this as a kid with muffin tins - we called them "scribble cookies."
lovely ♥
this is something i like.
daria, from germany.
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i ADORE this!!! the colors are amazing! great DIY!
xo, vanessa (the gal)
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Hi Katie! I'm new to your blog and I just want to let you know that I truly enjoy it here. It is so very inspiring!
I love this melting of the crayons idea and will have to execute it with my 2 year old. Thanks!
No doubt THEE best one ever. I adore your COLORFUL ways....I have always loved color, but never so bold as to decorate with it in my home. Geesh....I am boring. And not quite as awesome. :(
You have inspired me to do this with my kiddo. thanks.
my roommate and i are making melted crayon art soon, too, and i felt so sad tossing out the crayon scraps that i just stuck them in a frame. inspired by you! now we have a fun little reminder of spring in nyc. thank you!:
http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzywxyAgmT1rpg096o1_r3_400.jpg
I love this idea and have been thinking about doing this for awhile! Thanks for the fun inspiration!
Whoa... This is just little epic...
Hey!! Love this idea!!! I will definitely do it with my cousins!! Or just me :)
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