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🎃 Melting Crayons on Pumpkins Craft

Melting crayons on pumpkins is so colorful and so much fun! It's a great no-carve Halloween craft that adults enjoy just as much as kids!
Prep Time 4 minutes
Cook Time 8 minutes
Total Time 12 minutes
Servings 1 colorful pumpkin
Author Marcie & Julie

Equipment

Instructions

  • Prep crayons: Pick your crayons and put them in a bowl of warm/hot water. Let soak for 2 minutes. Then one-by-one remove crayons from bowl, peel off the wrapper, break into smaller pieces, and place on towel to dry. [optional: use a small bowl to collect all the crayon wrappers]
  • Glue crayons: Use the glue gun to put a small strip of glue at the top of the pumpkin, stretching away from the stem. Then press a crayon piece onto the hot glue. Repeat around the stem until you've glued a full circle of crayon pieces.
  • Melt crayons: Make sure pumpkin is sitting on a covered surface, like newspaper or a cut-open paper bag [the crayon will splatter!] Hold hair dryer a couple inches above center of pumpkin and turn on heat. You'll start to see the crayon bits melting down the sides of the pumpkin. Keep the blow drier steadily blowing until the crayons have melted enough to your liking.

Notes

🖍 Before you start anything, plug in your glue gun so it can start heating. By the way, a hot glue gun heats up and dries really fast, so it's preferable to craft glue, which takes a while to dry.
🖍 Use Crayola crayons. They melt the best. And take this opportunity to use up any random bits of crayons you have lying around the house.
🖍 Soak your crayons for 2 minutes in warm/hot water. Soaking makes the crayon wrappers just slide right off, and when warm, the crayons are easier to break apart with your hands.
🖍 If you make a mistake when gluing on the crayons (e.g. the crayon wasn't in the right position), no worries. The dried glue peels off really easily. You can start over.
🖍 Be ready for the mess. The crayons splatter a lot as they melt! Cover your work area with paper bags, boxes, newspaper, whatever. Or do this outside. Cleaning tip: when you're done, a Mr Clean eraser and dish soap work well to get the wax off your table or floor (but it does take patience).
🖍 Hold you hair dryer at least a couple inches above the pumpkin. The closer it is, the more splatter there will be. You can hold the dryer at different angles so the wax drips in different directions too.