Painting Hot Rocks With Crayons

Use longer crayon pieces to color melted wax onto the rock surface.

Painting hot rocks with crayons. Gather broken or old crayons and color on the rocks. The rocks dont have to be pristine but clean enough that dirt wont. Once the rocks are hot enough give them to your child with strict instructions not to touch the rockonly touch the crayon to the rock. Flat and smooth stones work the best.

Coloring lightly allows you to make a design. Peel the crayon paper back if needed press your crayons onto the hot rocks and watch them melt onto your hot rocks. Unlike coloring on paper when you move quickly with your crayon. Melt crayons this is the fun part.

Melted crayon hot rocks this art project seemed overly simple but also a bit dangerous. Pressing down will melt the wax and it will drip down the sides. Let it cool until the crayon has hardened leaving a smooth shiny finish this can take a couple hours. The colors show up much better and a fuller effect when you allow the crayon to melt at a slower movement.

This hot rocks melted crayons craft is sure to be a memorable time with your children. You will need some medium sized rocks foil crayons a cookie sheet oven and as many little bowls as you have rocks. After working on this batch of rocks together while daphne napped yesterday maia collected a second batch of rocks to work on with a friend. You know like if you were painting.

A tip we learned is. Switch colors a few times to make some amazing patterns. Let them color to their hearts content. The crayon melts over the surface of the hot rocks and creates a smooth vibrant colorful coating that hardens into a waxy shell.

I also lined our work area with an old tablecloth and more foil. Place rocks on a baking sheet lined with tin foil. Start by washing your rocks and warming your oven to 250. Get the dirt off.

A tad addictive even. Send your kids on a rock finding mission. It is so satisfying. Just setting a crayon fragment on the top of a hot rock will melt it into a beautiful pool of color.

Grab your crayons and paint away. Continue layering and mixing crayon colors until your rock is covered. Wax crayon art crayon painting crayon crafts wax crayons broken crayons color crayons melting crayons painting for kids art for kids artworks. Rocks are hot just a reminder that the rocks are hot and depending on the age of the child they may need additional reminding and supervision.

Watch the crayons melt onto the rock.