Kids will adore this melted crayon art! Watching it slide across the paper to create amazing pictures will be a crowd-pleaser for sure!
Disclaimer. You are using a heat source to melt crayons. It is hot. Please use extra caution when attempting this melted crayon art. Protect your little ones with extra oven mitts if needed. Use common sense! If they are too little, just pin it for future use!
If you kiddos are old enough and able to understand that the griddle is hot, they will LOVE this activity! I even got my son hooked and he never wants to participate in our craft camp activities!
This project is part of my Kid’s Craft camp! Make sure to click on the image to see all 50 craft ideas!
Here is what you need to create melted crayon art
- an electric griddle
- crayons
- tin foil
- cardstock
- oven mitt
How to set up the Art Station
Cover the griddle with tin foil. The crayons are waxy and will soak through the card stock a little bit. This is to project your griddle so your pancakes don’t taste like crayons!
We just used basic cardstock. You could print out some printables (I have some here and here) and color them in. Or just rip out a page in a coloring book! You will probably need to peel some of the crayon paper off as well as it melts! You can do that beforehand if you know what colors you want to use!
The best hack to peel off paper on crayons is soaking them in a bowl with hot water! They wrappers will fall right off!
We heated the griddle to 200-250. It does get warm. We laid out some oven mitts around where we were coloring to prevent our arms from getting burned. I would recommend wearing long sleeves and maybe even thin gloves that you get for winter for one dollar if the kids are small.
And sometimes the paper moves and slides. You could grab a rock from outside to put on the corner to hold it in place!
How to melt the Crayons
Place the cardstock on when you are ready to color and then just watch the crayons glide across! It’s so much fun! They remind me of using oil pastel in my high school art class. You can mix colors pretty good with to and it creates a neat effect!
I promise you, if you try this, you will have a hard time going back to plain crayons!
The last time I posted it on my TikTok, I had lots of people say, “So basically Oil pastels.” BUT You barely have to touch the paper to get the crayon to melt. It just glides. So it is like oil pastels, but way more effortless to get a beautiful saturated picture!
We did these with egg shapes to make some fun designs for Easter!
Save for later
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The BEST kid crafts and activities
and when I say kids, I mean kids of all ages!
- black glue art
- salt art
- hot rocks
- Yarn bracelets
- DIY window clings with puff paint
- Play dough activity mats
- Melted crayon art
- magic wallet
- Learn to make black scratch paper
- Melted Crayon Suncatcher
- Pressed Flowers Jar
- Bleeding Tissue craft
If you are looking for more fun kids’ crafts- my craft camp has two weeks full of fun projects that you will love to do as well!
I also have this super cool crayon mold project!
Alex says
I do this with a coffee mug warmer 🤣