Its raining crayons.

Crayons can be great for drawing, coloring, and melting! Find some old crayons and grab your hair dryer for a craft that will turn out great no what what your age is.

For this project you will need:
*Blow Dryer
*Crayons
*Canvas (or something sturdy)
*Hot Glue Gun




Start by deciding how you want your crayons to be arranged, I put mine in rainbow order in a straight line. The hot glue your crayons to your back drop and let them set. Finally you are ready to start the fun, set up your area with newspaper and do this either in your garage or outside. I know from experience that crayon on the carpet makes for a very unhappy mother.

My second piece, unfinished.

Finally start blow drying, this takes time and patience. It is good to start with one section and wait until those crayons start melting and then work your way across the canvas. Once the crayons have melted to your hearts content you are finished! The instructions may be short but my crayons took about 45 minutes to melt all the way (my arm really hurt after holding the dryer for so long).


The second crayon melting I did was with pieces of crayons in piles and blowing them out to mix together.

Simple Accents

So lately I have been doing small projects simple things that add a little something extra to my room or other places. Starting with bows I have so much ribbon laying around in my craft stash that I decided to do something useful with it. My bedroom is bright green, so I tied a green ribbon around the back of my desk chair. My room is accented in purple, one of the purple items is my trashcan. I decided to add a ribbon to this as well. However, tying it would not hold, so I got out to hot glue gun and made the bow more permanent.

I love glitter, and my friend told me how to cover your phone charger with glitter to make it more distinctive. I chose my own way to do it and simply painted it with nail polish. The smell may be a tad over whelming so you may want to do this out side. I stuck the part of the charger that goes into the wall into a piece of foam so I could easily paint all the sides without getting my hands sticky. Using a white glitter to paint over the whole charger was all you have to do. I waited a few hours to make sure it was dry, and it may smell faintly of nail polish for quite sometime.

Respect the Pouch

Finished Product!

If you have ever seen a commercial for Capri-Sun you will know that their slogan is "respect the pouch" often times they have kids like stepping on the juice pouch showing this "disrespect" my way of ruining the pouch was a little more creative than this. I made a bag from Capri-Suns, a project I got many compliments from. I used my bag for school and it held up pretty well, but I wouldn't advise carrying all of your heavy books in it.




You will need:
*Scissors
*A sewing machine
*Something for straps
*24 empty juice pouches (depending on how big you want your bag, more or less)

So to start it would be a good idea to drink all the juices I collected mine over time from friends who I sat with at lunch to get a nice variety of flavors. After acquiring all of the empty juices and a few extra's I got right to work. By cutting a small incision in the bottom of the juice pouch it made it easier to clean, I washed it out with soapy water and then proceeded to do all the others. Having the patience to let them dry was the hardest part for me.

Once dry smooth out and begin sewing, I sewed each pouch side by side across for the front and back then did a second row by sewing four more pouches together then sewing both strips together. The sides consists of four juices (2 by 2) and the bottom also 2x2. Deciding how to sew each side together was a challenge because normally you wouldn't want to see your seam. However, because the capri suns are stiff I choose to let my seam show making the corners stick out.

The Seam.

After all my sides were sewn together I patched up and holes by hand sewing them. Finally I added the straps, you could use ribbon but I found a thicker shinny material at Walmart that seemed to better fit my needs.