Crayon Art with Recycled Bottles

Kristie Hudson

6 years ago

Welcome to the December Pinterest Challenge Blog Hop, hosted by My Pinterventures. The purpose of this Pinterest Challenge is to motivate all the participants of this hop {and y’all too} to not just pin, but to make it happen! Look below for a list of past Pinterest Challenges.

Past Challenges

January ~> Making Decorative Paper Clips
February ~> Recycled Paper Basket
March ~> Recycled Drawer Paint Storage
April ~> DIY Rope Basket
May ~> Crocheting Over Fat Yarn
June ~> DIY Spinning Yarn Butler
July ~> Water Color Glass
September ~> Reversible Wood Transfer Sign
October ~> Pom Pom Earrings or Maybe a Pendant
November ~> Pecan & Pumpkin Pie Garland

Now, let’s look at what I picked for this month’s challenge. I was perusing Pinterest, looking at my Christmas board for an idea for this month. Then I saw these Easy Melted Crayon Art Christmas Ornaments from the Heathered Nest in the “more like this” section. I thought – that sounds like fun! Except I didn’t have any plain glass ornaments that weren’t already decorated. What I did have was tons of empty bottles because I have a little problem throwing out glass – ahem. So, I decided to try melting crayons on some recycled bottles!

Cleaning Bottles

The first thing I needed to do was remove the labels from the bottles I chose. I think these old Kevita bottles will be perfect for this project!

I really love the little hearts on the bottoms…

First, I peeled off as much of the label as I could get to let go. Then I sprayed them down with Goo Gone, which usually works like a charm.

This time I had to fight with the left over label bits. The label is made of something other than paper, so the Goo Gone did not soak through it. I had to break out the razor blade!

Melting Crayons

If you’ve never melted crayons before, I highly recommend trying it out! I did two art canvases with melted crayons for my kids & it was so much fun to watch the crayons melt!

I picked out some blues & purples just to keep from mixing too many colors. In the original post, she used a vegetable peeler to shave the crayons. I’m using the micro plane side of my box grater.

Speckles

For the first jar, I just grated the ends of the crayons over a strip of wax paper. I was going to heat up the bits with my heat gun, but it just blew them away. Then I decided to heat up the jar a bit with the heat gun & roll it on the wax paper.

It worked like a charm! I did go over the sides with the heat gun to melt the little bits more.

I really like the speckled effect!

Drips

For the next jar I decided to put the tip of a crayon by the bottom edge to heat with the heat gun.

This worked best if I put the heat gun behind the crayon instead of in front of it. Sometimes the drips lifted up at the ends.

When I finished melting all the colors I wanted, I turned the bottle around while heating up the wax more. I wasn’t paying attention to the wax rolling around the sides as I turned!

I still like the way it turned out, but if you want straight lines don’t roll the bottle while heating the wax. : )

Dots

There were some dots of melted crayon on the wax paper from the last bottle. I decided to try to heat them up and roll the bottle over them…

It worked, but you have to act fast because that wax doesn’t stay melted long! I like the texture it gives the wax when it’s peeled off the paper.

I think these turned out pretty neat! They will be great for bud vases in the spring, but definitely not washable. Well, unless you want to try another color scheme! ; D