I saw a fabulous tutorial for floating clouds recently and it sparked something in my mind, particularly as I had been thinking of making these autumn leaves with The Girls. It’s amazing how two ideas, viewed together, generate a new idea in your head, one that is so easy and effective that it’s thoroughly enjoyable to make. This is how this Pumpkin craft was born. And here’s how to make wax crayon pumpkins:
First, grate your crayons: we used two oranges with a touch of brown and yellow.
Second, heat your oven to 120C* and lay protective cover over your baking tray (either foil or more baking paper.)
Lay your wax jam discs on top, well spaced, with the waxy side facing up.
Place a small spoonful of wax gratings on top
Bake in the oven for a few minutes until melted.
Take out and cover your melted wax with a second disc, this one with the waxy side facing down.
Leave to cool, then decorate your pumpkins with permanent marker.
I haven’t worked out what we are going to use these for yet, to be honest. You could string them together either as a garland, or mobile: they look particularly pretty and colourful in front of the light so would work well as suncatchers.
* you could also make these using an iron to heat your wax- just sandwich your gratings between the wax paper discs- both with the waxy side facing in towards the wax shavings- and iron carefully until melted. Probably best to cover the wax circles with a piece of newspaper whilst ironing, so that the melted wax doesn’t ooze out and mess up the hotplate of your iron. Not that I would know….
These are so cute. I’d hang them in my window to catch the sunlight.
Those turned out cool- I just pinned it on Pinterest! Thank you for sharing this with us on The Sunday Showcase
Right up my street, easy to make. Came across your site via Red Ted whilst looking for inspiration to put on my first ever Halloween party for my boys. Thank you, great blog xx
Glad I can be of help Karen and good luck with your party!
Love it! thanks for sharing.
Way cool! Thanks for linking this to One Artsy Mama…it’s awesome!
Love this idea! Hanging in the windows, for sure! So creative!
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Allison @ House of Hepworths
For grating the crayons you can use one of those crayon sharpeners as well :)This is a great idea I think we’re going to do it this week!
Thanks Megan: never thought of sharpening the crayons to get shavings!
In the past I have gotten the cheap pencil sharpeners $1/6 at the Dollar tree and had the kids sharpen the crayons outside into a brown paper bag to get the shavings. Still lots of static- maybe wipe their arms with a dryer sheet??
What is the wax jam disc? Can you use parchment paper or wax paper instead?
Thanks for the grating tip Becky. The wax discs are used in jam (jelly) making: they get put on top of the jam, in the jar, I think to keep the fruit pressed down. You can buy them ready made. I am sure that you oculd use baking parchment instead.
Very cool! We have yet to try melting crayons.
Glad you like them Jamie: like I said to Anna, be careful of your fingers. Oh and grating the wax crayon makes a lot of static: the gratings get everywhere!
How CUTE are these?!!
Thanks Anna- they were very quick to make and I only burned my fingers once 😀
ooh these are very cool. I’m a huge halloween fan, so these are right up my street 🙂 x
Funnily enough I had you down as Halloweeny Susan!
You are one sickeningly clever lady!!
I’m doing these. One question – disc: waxed side up or down? x
I used wax side up but would probably do it the other way in future. The melted wax adheres better to the non-waxy side. And no-one has ever called me sickeningly clever- I’m well chuffed!
Oooooh I likey!!! 🙂
Maggy
Thanks Maggy–more autumn craft on my return!