Melted Crayon and Wax Paper Easter Eggs

I intended to make melted crayon and wax paper hearts before Valentine’s Day this year, but life happened. By the time Valentine’s Day came around, I was already in the mood for some colorful spring decor. I had the idea to switch gears and make melted crayon and wax paper EASTER EGGS, and here we are!

This would be a great project to do with kids. If they’re old enough to sharpen a pencil, they can do this. It can get a little bit messy, but the mess is pretty easy to contain. (Just make sure you cover your work surface.)

Best of all, you probably already have everything you need! 

Supplies:

• Crayons
• Pencil/crayon sharpener
• Wax paper
• Parchment paper
• Iron
• String/thread/tape for hanging

Truly, that’s it!

The one note I will make about supplies is that not all crayons are created equal when it comes to removing labels. We have an absurd number of crayons here (see below), but we ended up sticking with Crayola after trying unsuccessfully to remove the labels on some of the others. Not all Crayolas were easy, either, but most of them were fine.

That brings me to the first step, which is to choose your colors. We ended up with a whole rainbow. Some of them are very spring-like and almost pastel, and some were not. I say anything goes, but this is up to you.

Once you’ve chosen your colors, you need to remove the labels. We soaked our crayons in a bowl of warm soapy water for a while (I had read somewhere 15 minutes, but I had an excited—ahem, impatient, kid), and that worked very well for most of the crayons.

I should note here that we worked over our granite countertop, which is tough and can take some heat. Make sure you protect your own work surface! If you don’t have parchment paper, you could probably use a paper bag or a thin towel (I wouldn’t use a plush one, or one that could be ruined by crayons).

Lay out a piece of parchment paper first, and then a piece of wax paper. You’ll also need another sheet of each before you iron. Or, instead of a second sheet of parchment paper, you could use a towel.

Over the wax paper, sharpen your crayons and let the shavings fall however you’d like. If your sharpener gets jammed, I found that a toothpick worked well to clean ours out. 

As you can see, we ended up with darker colors on one side and lighter colors on the other. We ended up with some bare spots, but I wasn’t too concerned. This was an experiment to see how densely we needed to cover the paper. 

Remember, you can always move the shavings around if you feel the need to even them out or whatever.

When you’re happy with your crayon shavings, it’s time to melt them!

Put the second sheet of wax paper on top of the first, and then put the parchment paper on top of that.

Carefully iron the wax paper just until you’ve melted the crayon shavings in between.

I guess I was excited, because I used my iron on the hottest setting. The lowest should do fine, though. Oops. I think I melted some of the wax paper more than I should have, so some of it melted away completely. You wouldn’t be able to tell except that some of the color ended up on the parchment paper.

But look how pretty! It was very cool to see the crayons melting and merging together.

After your art has dried, cut out your shapes. I found an egg outline on Canva and printed that out to use as a template, but you could definitely freehand this.

I love the way they turned out!

For now I have our eggs taped to a window, but I may hang them eventually. I’m thinking of using a needle and thread to hang them from a curtain rod. Or from a light fixture. Just someplace where the light can shine through them, because they are gorgeous!

We may do this again after Easter and cut out flower shapes. Or butterflies! Wouldn’t they be pretty?! If you have any ideas, please let me know!

Happy crafting!