What Do You Think?

[spud912]

I wanted to do this with the kids tomorrow, but got excited and did it by myself just now. Good thing, because there wasn't much they could do! I saw it online and thought it was a great idea for a daycare room decoration. I tried taping up the silouette, but unfortunately some orange got behind the tape, and now it's all my eyes can look at (darn it!!). What do you all think?

[Breezy]

I have seen this on pinterest and I think it looks just like the original. Looks great!!!

[countrymom]

my odd did this and entered in our fair this weekend. She painted the background black. She also used a hair dryer. Very time comsuming. But the outlook is great.

[nanglgrl]

I did this a while back and you're right, there's not much for the kids to do. They did however look at me like I was awesome when it was done! Where did you get the silhouette? I didn't have that on mine.

[SquirrellyMama]

That is very cool! K

[Crazy8]

cute! my dd and her friend made one - they are 12 and I even helped guide them a bit so yeah, probably not anything the little kids can do.

Here is theirs - the heart was done in contact paper but one corner started to peel up while they were melting so they ended up painting it white to try to fix it up a little.

[countrymom]

if you have a cricut machine you can cut out the shape.

[spud912]

I did this a while back and you're right, there's not much for the kids to do. They did however look at me like I was awesome when it was done! Where did you get the silhouette? I didn't have that on mine.

I found a silhouette online, printed it on cardstock, cut it out and traced it. I ended up drawing a lot of it in though because the traced pattern didn't look much like the original. Then I colored it in with a black marker.

[spud912]

cute! my dd and her friend made one - they are 12 and I even helped guide them a bit so yeah, probably not anything the little kids can do.

Here is theirs - the heart was done in contact paper but one corner started to peel up while they were melting so they ended up painting it white to try to fix it up a little.

Looks great!!

[Blackcat31]

What a super neat art/craft idea!!!

Can someone post directions or how to...I don't get how you get the crayons to run :confused:

[MyAngels]

What a super neat art/craft idea!!!

Can someone post directions or how to...I don't get how you get the crayons to run :confused:

Here you go:

http://megduerksen.typepad.com/whatever/2011/08/you-knew-i-was-going-to-make-one.html

[spud912]

What a super neat art/craft idea!!!

Can someone post directions or how to...I don't get how you get the crayons to run :confused:

It's super easy and cheap. This is how I did it:

1. Arrange crayons in rainbow scheme
2. Use the glue gun to attach the crayons along the top of the canvas. I did it with the "Crayola" name sticking out.
3. Find a sillouette online, print it and cut it out.
4. Trace around the silouette onto the canvas with a pencil.
5. Color in the silouette with a black Sharpie marker. I didn't have one so I just used a regular black marker.
6. Place painter's (or masking) tape on top of the silouette.
7. Set up the surrounding area with newspaper because the crayons spatter.
8. Blow dry the crayons until they start dripping. I found it's best to start at high heat and high volume until the crayons start dripping a lot. Sweep back and forth on the crayons. To get the crayons to drizzle all the way to the bottom, I turned down the volume to medium (but still on high heat), and swept downward.
9. Remove the painter's tape.

The prep time took me about an hour and the blow drying took 30 minutes.

I used a 24x18 inch canvas (Wal-Mart for $15, sold in packs of 2) and a 96 count box of Crayola crayons (Wal-Mart for $5). I used approximately 86 crayons, so pretty much the whole box. All in all, it costs about $13 for the whole project, which isn't bad for a nice big picture. By the way, the kids LOVED it.

[Blackcat31]

Here you go:

http://megduerksen.typepad.com/whate...-make-one.html

It's super easy and cheap. This is how I did it:

1. Arrange crayons in rainbow scheme
2. Use the glue gun to attach the crayons along the top of the canvas. I did it with the "Crayola" name sticking out.
3. Find a sillouette online, print it and cut it out.
4. Trace around the silouette onto the canvas with a pencil.
5. Color in the silouette with a black Sharpie marker. I didn't have one so I just used a regular black marker.
6. Place painter's (or masking) tape on top of the silouette.
7. Set up the surrounding area with newspaper because the crayons spatter.
8. Blow dry the crayons until they start dripping. I found it's best to start at high heat and high volume until the crayons start dripping a lot. Sweep back and forth on the crayons. To get the crayons to drizzle all the way to the bottom, I turned down the volume to medium (but still on high heat), and swept downward.
9. Remove the painter's tape.

The prep time took me about an hour and the blow drying took 30 minutes.

I used a 24x18 inch canvas (Wal-Mart for $15, sold in packs of 2) and a 96 count box of Crayola crayons (Wal-Mart for $5). I used approximately 86 crayons, so pretty much the whole box. All in all, it costs about $13 for the whole project, which isn't bad for a nice big picture. By the way, the kids LOVED it.

Thanks ladies!! I am totally going to try this! happyface

[Country Kids]

I have some little canvas's so I think I'll do this with SA when they have a day off!

[Blackcat31]

This was such a cool idea that I couldn't resist and HAD to do this myself over the weekend! It was so fun and super easy to do! My DH helped out and even he thought it was a really neat idea. Here are our results: