arject…arts and crafts + project

Lilly has gone from from saying “arts and craps” to “arjects,”  I love toddler talk it is hilarious!  I have been trying to transform the playroom/office/computer room.  It started out primarily as a computer room for Mike with a treadmill in it for me.  Then we added some toys for Lilly, and then when Raelynn came along I  moved Lilly Pie Creations in.  So the space has kind of turned into a family play room.  We each pretty much have our own wall.  Lilly uses the playroom a lot to color and play away from Raelynn with her “big girl toys” so I have been trying to come up with something to put on the wall above her table.  I found some really pretty crayon art on pinterest and decided to give it a try. I thought Lilly would enjoy doing this “arject” with me, so I waited until Raelynn went down for her morning nap and Lilly and I got to work.

 

Supplies: a big canvas, hot glue gun, crayons, blow dryer.

Lilly helped me sort the crayons

And we took out all the browns, blacks, greys and tans.  I used three 24 packs of crayons that I got for $1 each at big lots.

I put them all in order

Then started gluing them at the top of the canvas.

I then played around with my camera, all the vibrant colors we begging me to take pictures.

Lilly lost interest after about 5 minutes so she started coloring with her own crayons

We took the canvas outside and went to town with the blow dryer.  Make sure to put it on something you don’t mind getting melted crayon on!

This is the finished project, apparently my blow dryer is weird.  It made the wax go in weird directions instead of straight down, but I like the way it turned out.  I have another canvas, that I may let Lilly pick out the colors for.  I’m sure it will be all “PANK”

Here is a picture of Lilly Pie Creations, it has changed a little since the picture was taken but I figured since this is part of our play room I should add the picture.