This past October I was looking for a creative and easy fall decorative project to make. I found a Pin that looked fun and easy enough. It said to glue crayons on the top of a pumpkin then take a hairdryer and "melt" the crayons with it and the melted wax was supposed to drip down the sides of the pumpkin. However when I tried it I just made a big ole mess. So I went over to my mother's and she came up with some new ideas to help my pumpkin out.
First I bought a fake pumpkin because I didn't want to have to throw it away after working so hard on this project.
I did try gluing the crayons onto the top of the pumpkin first, however they kept falling off and the air from the dryer did melt them but it also made the melted crayons splatter all over the place. So word of advice, if you do want to melt the crayons on top of the pumpkin with a hairdryer, make sure you use clear tacky glue and let it dry for a while before turning on the dryer. Also make sure you cover the surrounding area with newspaper.
After I had crayon wax everywhere and my pumpkin didn't look like the picture, we got out the lighter. I really wanted to set the whole project up in flames but my mother had a better idea. Using a pair of metal kitchen tongs, we "held" the crayon above the pumpkin and melted it with a candle lighter. This way we could better control where the wax dripped. That worked a lot better and the second layer of wax looked pretty good over the thin first layer.
Of course my mom had an old fall wreath laying around, so we took some of the fall flowers and hot glued them around the stem of the pumpkin.
Thanks to my mom we turned out with a pretty cool looking fall pumpkin. Now I can put the crayon dripped pumpkin out every year.
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