I'm melting! melting! Oh, what a world!

Here I will share my little step by step on how to do one of those 

charming melted crayon on canvas art projects. 

I decided Dollface could use something pretty for her empty walls. I let her pick everything from start to finish. 

AND I even remembered to take LOTS of pictures along the way. Yay me!, right? ... you'll see...

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Step 1- Give the child canvas and paint and get the heck out of dodge.

Step 2: Let her work of art dry and pick out your colors. Dollface was digging the garden look and wanted to do greens for flower stems. Easy Peasy. Time to bust out the crayola stash from the back to school sale when crayons were like .25 each. Now the kids will be happy. The crayon basket has been replenished. Just hope they have no need for greens anytime soon.

Step 3: Attempt to come up with a pattern with the colors found. Then allow child to come along arrange them her own way. Clearly she knows best.

Step 4: She decides that no garden is complete without the sun shining down. So gather up some yellows and oranges and bash the crap out of them to melt in the microwave.

Step 5: Glue the crayons on canvas. We used a hot glue gun. It seemed to work wonderfully.

Step 6: Get your hairdryer and go to town melting these bad boys. I did notice that HOT on HIGH works best, but it also causes a bit of a splatter effect. I used my COOL button for bursts of cool air to stop some of the melted color from going further than I wished it to.

Step 7: DO NOT ALLOW YOUR CHILD TO TALK YOU INTO ADDING A SUN. 

I REPEAT, DO NOT FALL FOR THE CUTENESS. DO NOT DO AS I HAVE DONE!

 Step 8: Try like hell to get that orange eye sore off the pretty canvas! Do it now and do it fast.

Step 9: To Late. The damage is done.

Step 10: On a new canvas, repeat the first 6 steps. Skip step 4. SKIP STEP FOUR!!!