Arts & Crafts with Little Birds: Crayon Shavings Stars

So I wanted to make these, only just using the bits and pieces of crayons found at the back our crayon drawer.

I tossed the crayons into the mini food-processor attachment to my stick blender and ground up the crayons. Then Greyson sprinkled the bits on to wax paper.


Then I ironed it!

I probably should have stopped here when the patterened looks awesome, but I kept ironing and made mush.


Green mush.


Luckily Greyson still thought it was pretty cool. Before it totally cooled down, but it wasn't burning hot I let him run his fingers around it. I know he doesn't look too happy about it, but this is just his concentrating face.


After that I used a cookie cutter to trace and cut-out stars and Greyson taped them to a string. He is shockingly accurate at taping, and very careful.


We hung our string of stars in the window. Greyson picked out one for each of us. There was a "Daddy Star", a "Mommy Star", a "Greyson Star" and a "Tal-la-la Star". He'd come back to it throughout the day and point out the different stars.

I think we will do other versions of this craft again soon. I need to get rid of all the regular crayons and replace them all with the washable kind. 2 of our walls and one door-jam now have Greyson Perry Originals on permanent display...