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This is a most excellent project that we did in April of last year, but slipped through the posting cracks. And as I am in the throes of teaching Arts Focus I’m forgetting to even photograph our current Friday Art Playgroups!
Melting the crayons on the hot rocks is absolutely addictive and wonderful and tactile and drippy and amazing.
Great directions at 5 Orange Potatoes, I feel no need to write my own.
I am thinking about adapting this to Easter eggs, but blown they wouldn’t hold the heat to melt crayons on (and not blown they don’t last long). But we’ve learned that you can put crayons into a glue gun, so I’m thinking blown eggs + crayons in glue gun. Yes? And then perhaps over dyeing? Oh, and glitter into the melted crayon? What was your favorite egg craft from last year? What, it’s still February? I guess I’m getting ahead of myself…
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Add Yours →We’ve done this with Easter eggs by pulling them straight out of boiling temp water. Makes them hard to peel, but they are so pretty!!! Blogged about them here:
http://mamasmiles.com/easter-eggs/
And here (dyed them after coloring the second time):
http://mamasmiles.com/sunshine-and-eggs/
Yes, I’ve seen the hardboiled ones before, probably yours, but I do want to try blowing them first, so that we can make an egg tree this year, I’ve never done it, and it seems like such a fanciful idea.
You have some of the most lovely ideas! I hope you don’t mind that I’m pinning some to my Pinterest board so that I can keep track of ones that I would really like to use with my botany-camp kids this summer. I’m not sure exactly how the copyright laws work on that. If you would prefer that I not do that, please say so, and I promise to take them to down.
(Just wanted to say, though, that I think the idiom you are after is “in the throes of,” not “in the throws of.” Unfortunately I tend to get a little obsessive-compulsive when it comes to language, perhaps because English language is what I studied at university!)
Thanks so much! Pin away. I’m sorry that I dropped off into lala land for a month, I do tend to do that. I would love to see your botany camp pinboard, if you wouldn’t mind sharing it!
I’m sure your grammar is much better than mine, the only way I finally learned to spell was having all my misspellings immediately underlined by the computer!
Oh, I would be happy to share! I put a link to my pinterest board in the box above, so hopefully that will show up when I post this. It’s pretty random, but has links to several craft ideas that I have used in the past, and others that I have yet to try.
Hmm . . . that didn’t show up, although apparently it turned my name into a link that will take you to my pinterest board! I’ll also try posting it here, just in case that works: http://pinterest.com/boisenoise/nature-science-and-craft-activities-for-kids/
That is an awesome list! I repined some of them so that we can remember to do them. The dancing oobleck is amazing! And I love the cotton owl. Now I want to felt pine cones.
If you try out the dancing oobleck before I get a chance to, please let me know how it goes! That one looks fun, but it’s still on my to-try list!
Okay! I need to show it to my daughter, after that it will probably happen pretty quickly!