Beauty in Art

Today was an "at home" day for me and the kids.  Needed to find something that they'd be udderly fascinated with and that I'd enjoy too.  Enter one of my latest Pinterest finds: crayon art.  Because everyone decides on the spur of the moment to make crayon art, right?  I'm determined to be one of those people that actually *does* something with the things I pin.  So far I've cooked a lot of stuff.  If you ask my husband, I've made a lot of stuff too.  What's another project to add to the list?

Welcome to crayon art with Amy and the kids.  And I actually pre-meditated this one and went and bought canvas and crayons and new glue sticks for the glue gun the other day.

Here's the "before" pic.  Sprocket (aka R - that's what we called her when I was prego with her...) helped me sort all the crayons by color and organize them all.  Achieved mostly easily because Figgy (aka E - that was HIS name) was napping.  Then I hot glue gunned them all onto the canvas and waited for him to wake up, because the next part was um, noisy and involved a hair dryer.

Cue the hair dryer.  Ok wait, let me back up - I realized that I should probably put something on the floor before the melting fun began - so note - you should prob. do the same if you ever dare to do this.  A roll of white easel paper did the trick.  Only everything I've seen on crayon art and hair dryers doesn't mention anything about ummm, splattering.  Yes, splattering.  Luckily any splatter from heating up the crayons and melting them with said hair dryer landed on the leather sofa and wiped right off.  Guess my secret is out, sweet husband of mine ;)  The whole thing took about 20 minutes (about 10 per canvas, maybe a little more) and the kids oohed, ahhed and cheered.  I think it came out pretty cool. 

See, with a little motivation and letting go of fear of the mess, we made some bee-utiful art :) Now let's see how long it takes for us to actually hang it up....