I’ll just state for the record, that it’s my daughter that is the crafty one. She’s an artist and has been from day one. I, by association, have had some of her artistry rub off on me, so that’s cool. Didn’t know that could happen.

We have so many crayons in our house because with school-age kids, we need to buy a new pack of crayons for school supplies pretty much every year.

Forget the art, it’s the math that is staggering: If you’ve got two kids, and you had to buy crayons for 6 years of elementary school and you picked up a modest 24 pack of crayons each of those years. That’s around 300 crayons.

Then there’s the broken ones that you didn’t have the heart to throw out because they’d come in handy. I’m pretty sure I went with the 100 pack of crayons a few times and that is what has led to this glut. We’ve always wanted to do this craft and make something cool out of all those crayons, that honestly — even after donating baggies of them, we still have 300 left? How does that work?

Melted Crayon Art:

Round up as many varied colours of crayons as you can, you pick the size — they can big or small. Line them up…and stick them on a canvas with double-sided tape.

Hold the canvas upright over a bunch of newspaper so you don’t destroy your table. Oh and whatever you do, don’t wear your favourite shirt or yoga pants, they may end up with colourful wax all over them.

Lock and load the blow dryer….

Crayon Art – Photo Mel Z

What you need:

• Huge pile of crayons

• White canvas (you choose the size, we used 8×10)

• Double-sided sticky tape

• Blow-dryer

• A crafty-kid

Mel Z – Middays 10am – 3pm