Crayon Art with Recycled Bottles

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

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