Melted Crayon Pumpkins Halloween Craft

Halloween is almost here! Today I’m sharing how to make Melted Crayon Pumpkins that add a little color to your Halloween decor!

Making Melted Crayon Pumpkins

Last night while the hubby worked late the girls and I had fun experimenting with melting crayons on white pumpkins.  It was a fun alternative to carving them but much messier than expected.

Seems pretty self-explanatory but here are a few tips for making your own crayon covered pumpkin.

 

Supplies:

• A pumpkin (obviously!)
• Broken crayons with paper pealed off
• A hairdryer
• A protected surface
• *Optional hot glue & hot glue gun

The details for making melted crayon pumpkins:

1. Break the crayons into even smaller pieces if necessary
2. Place crayon pieces on pumpkin in ridges
3. Optional Tip- hot glue crayons in place to keep the crayon pieces in place before melting

3. Heat with hairdryer

*Number 3 is the tricky part. We had a hard time keeping the crayons on the pumpkins before they were melted enough to stick. My advice, use hot glue to keep the crayons in place and wear gloves! Then heat the crayons with low heat, once the crayon is stating to melt you can turn the heat up so the color spreads.

Make sure to cover the entire surface you are using if you care about getting it dirty. I stuck our pumpkins on paper plates right on the kitchen table. Yeah. Bad idea! When we turned the blow dryer up (once the crayons were starting to really melt) to spread the melting colors the air shot specks of crayon EVERYWHERE. My table is speckled with dots of color. It’ll come off but will take some more work than anticipated.

Even with the unexpected speckled table mess and my crayon covered fingers, it was a really fun little project that turned out great! Piper kept saying “Wow!! Look at that!” While Kenzie watched in amazement saying “ooooh and ahhhh!”

Have fun decorating!

Happy Halloween! 😘

 

 

Pumpkins Everywhere!

We’ve been to so many pumpkin patches I can’t even remember how many times I’ve dragged my family to pick up pumpkins. My pumpkin obsession may have gone a little overboard this year, my husband counted over 30 inside the house and there are more on the porch… Ops! But that is a different story!

With so many pumpkins around, we have plenty of crafting to do with the girls. This year we carved pumpkins a week before Halloween at a carving party. Piper drew 8 faces on her pumpkin and picked her first drawing to carve out. It had long eyes and a tiny nose and mouth. Pretty good for an almost 4-year-old! ( I think it was the best pumpkin of the bunch but I’m 100% bias!) Unfortunately, with the rain, our pumpkins didn’t make it to Halloween. They are smooched on the porch waiting for my husband to toss them, I don’t plan on touching them.

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