{"id":10298,"date":"2015-03-19T10:40:49","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T00:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/project.theownerbuildernetwork.co\/2015\/03\/19\/diy-melted-crayon-wall-decor\/"},"modified":"2021-04-02T12:56:43","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T02:56:43","slug":"diy-melted-crayon-wall-decor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theownerbuildernetwork.co\/project\/2015\/03\/19\/diy-melted-crayon-wall-decor\/","title":{"rendered":"DIY Melted Crayon Wall Decor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now you can hang\u00a0your own canvas masterpiece with the use of crayons and a heat gun. Be creative and try making different shapes or abstract art with it!<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4593\" src=\"http:\/\/project.theownerbuildernetwork.co\/files\/2017\/03\/Melted-crayon-rainbow-art.jpg\" alt=\"Melted crayon rainbow art\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Materials:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00251EVPW\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-lasso-id=\"399\">Canvas<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00004YO15\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-lasso-id=\"400\">Crayons<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000NIFKRM\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-lasso-id=\"401\">Glue gun<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00004TUCV\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-lasso-id=\"402\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Heat gun<\/span><\/a> (or hair dryer, but the melted crayons are more difficult to control using this)<\/li>\n<li>Old newspapers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Steps:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>First of all, spread out the newspaper on your work area so that you won&#8217;t have to clean your furniture or floor after. Remember you are working with wax. It may even damage your furniture.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4594\" src=\"http:\/\/project.theownerbuildernetwork.co\/files\/2017\/03\/melted-crayon-art-tutorial.jpg\" alt=\"Melted crayon rainbow art tutorial\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now sort the crayons by colour. You might want to exclude the browns, black and grey. Line them up in a nice spectrum of colours. And when you are satisfied stick the crayons on top of your canvas using the glue gun.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4595\" src=\"http:\/\/project.theownerbuildernetwork.co\/files\/2017\/03\/melting-crayons-with-a-heat.jpg\" alt=\"Melted crayon rainbow art\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once all the crayons are attached,\u00a0lean your canvas on some support, positioning it at about 30 degrees. Start blowing the a few number of crayons at a time with the heat gun. Hold the gun about 12 inches away from the crayons.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4596\" src=\"http:\/\/project.theownerbuildernetwork.co\/files\/2017\/03\/melting-crayons-on-canvas.jpg\" alt=\"Melted crayon rainbow art\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now you have to be patient here, the crayons will take some time before it melts and runs. This might take you a little less than an hour to complete.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4597\" src=\"http:\/\/project.theownerbuildernetwork.co\/files\/2017\/03\/rainbow-crayon-art-project.jpg\" alt=\"Melted crayon rainbow art\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once you are done with all the crayons, lay your canvas with the bottom edge hanging. &#8220;Clean&#8221; up the edge by scraping off excess wax, or use the heat gun again to melt some that have coagulated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <a title=\"Glorious Treats\" href=\"https:\/\/www.glorioustreats.com\/how-to-make-melted-rainbow-crayon-art\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-lasso-id=\"403\">Glorious Treats<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now you can hang\u00a0your own canvas masterpiece with the use of crayons and a heat gun. Be creative and try making different shapes or abstract art with it! Materials: Canvas Crayons Glue gun Heat gun (or hair dryer, but the melted crayons are more difficult to control using this) Old newspapers Steps: First of all, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"Learn how to make canvas art by melting crayons!","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sma_last_campaign_date":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[475,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-craft","category-recycled"],"modified_by":"Freddie","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theownerbuildernetwork.co\/project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theownerbuildernetwork.co\/project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theownerbuildernetwork.co\/project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theownerbuildernetwork.co\/project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theownerbuildernetwork.co\/project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theownerbuildernetwork.co\/project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theownerbuildernetwork.co\/project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theownerbuildernetwork.co\/project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theownerbuildernetwork.co\/project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theownerbuildernetwork.co\/project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}