Recycled Crayon Leaves

I saw this project on another blog recently and thought it would be fun. The kiddos loved the grated crayons and couldn't keep their hands out of it. They had alot of fun watching the crayons melt under the warm iron. I decided to try this project at school with my sons Kindergarten class..... things were a bit messy but all in all everyone had fun with the project.

Project: Recycled crayon leaf

Grated crayons, I melted mine by color so they were a large chunk, then grated.

wax paper

scissors

black construction paper

iron, towel

Cut the leaf shape out of the black paper, two sheets together. Then sprinkle the grated crayon on the wax paper, place another wax sheet on top and iron. Then sandwich the wax paper with melted crayons in between the black construction paper. If you hang in a window then you get a beautiful transparency like stained glass.

Dino Drawing

This is one of the many drawings from Dinosaur Camp this week. I loved it!! K has been having a terrific time and has been exhausted too! As we speak he is taking a "resty", poor guy... Kindergarten is going to be long in the beginning. I just thought I would share some of his great art work.

Paper Armour

Tonight's update is going to be short. I am trying to keep my momentum up for the next few days. I have Mike's birthday on Friday and Stef's shower on Sat. I am planning to spend some time in the kitchen. So, I worked most of the evening on some sewing projects and the kids came down to make art too. This is the finished product by my nifty little inventor. He first called it a paper dress and soon switch to armour. It is three chalk pastel drawings stapled together into a smock of sorts. I loved how creative he got tonight, his brain thinks very three dimensionally.