Melted Crayon Art... Suggestions?

[NightFury]

Hi everyone,

I was thinking of making a melted crayon piece of art with the children in my Year 1 class. Each class has to make something to be auctioned off at our school art show later this year.

Our theme is "Multicultural" and I just love the melted crayon art style with its splashes of colour. Problem is, I can't decide what to base it on. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Some pictures to show what I'm talking about.....

 

[tulagirl]

How old are the children? Year one makes me think 6 but I am not sure. What I did for my class of 5 year olds; kindergarten we call it here...was we made a quilt. I gave each child a white square and they drew a picture on it and signed it best they could. Then we picked one color which was blue for the alternating squares and we made a patchwork quilt with their artwork. We did ties instead of quilting it. We used fabric markers and only three children at a time worked on their square. The reason for this is I wanted them to be creative and kids tend to like what the child next to them is doing and copy. The quilt was a huge hit. That doesn't answer your question about crayon art and, I have lots of experience with Multicultural. Its my expertise. The only problem is for an item that will be auctioned off thats harder because, you are probably only making one per class right? My favorite multicultural art project I did for area missions with my class was children of all colors holding hands with the world in the middle. We had flesh paper, brown paper and a lighter brown paper. We used yarn for hair and they just made collage style people. This was a huge bulletin board display though. We talked about how we are more similar than different no matter what color our eyes, skin, language and hair color. We hold hands together is a symbol of embracing all people regardless of race. I think we even added some special needs children in their too. It was beautiful. I don't guess any of this is helpful since its not your crayon art. Just thought I would tell you about it anyway.

 

[gold.standard]

I suppose maybe for mulitcultural, doing melty flags of various countries inside the border of the country you are in?
That's all I got.
Melting crayons for art is a lot of fun. If you are more confident, you can use the tip of a hot glue gun and dip and draw with the wax. But just using a hair dryer should be enough to do splatters with.

 

[NightFury]

I don't guess any of this is helpful since its not your crayon art. Just thought I would tell you about it anyway.

Thank you for your suggestion Tulagirl. Actually my first thought had been something like that, canvas squares that each child decorates and then tied together as a huge wall hanging. But then I saw the effects of the crayon and fell in love.

 

[NightFury]

I suppose maybe for mulitcultural, doing melty flags of various countries inside the border of the country you are in?
That's all I got. Melting crayons for art is a lot of fun. If you are more confident, you can use the tip of a hot glue gun and dip and draw with the wax. But just using a hair dryer should be enough to do splatters with.

Great idea about the flags. I actually haven't done this before, so not "confident" yet. I am going to play around over the weekend with the whole crayon art and see where it gets me. If nothing else, my kids will end up with an original "made by mum" artwork in their room.