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Melted crayon Valentine stained glass hearts

You may be asking yourself what is an easy Valentine craft to make? Here is a super fun old school way to make Valentine decorations.

Melted crayon Valentine stained glass hearts! These crayon hearts are fun for kids and adults alike to make!

They are really easy and fun to do!

Melted crayon Valentine hearts

Supplies needed-

Old crayons

Grater and or knife

Wax paper

Iron

Scissors

Melted crayon Valentine hearts

Prepping crayons

First I took the paper off of all the crayons that I wanted to use. I tried to pick pinks, reds, yellow and oranges. I used my zester to grate the crayons.

Next I ripped off two sheets of waxed paper large enough to cut out a bunch of hearts in different sizes.

grate crayons

Shave crayons

The zester creates very fine shavings. I think if I did it again I would mix up the sizes of shavings. I would also use my knife to slice off thicker pieces and mix it up with the finer shavings to get some different thicknesses of melted crayon.

Who knew zesters could have such a fun effect for crayon art!

grating the crayons

Shave enough to create a nice wide pile of shavings. Spread it out a bit so that you will have a lot to choose from once you start cutting out the hearts.

Tip- If you want more the pink and yellow to show up, use less red. Once I ironed this pile the red took over as the main color.

grated crayons for melted Valentine hearts

Melting crayons

Place a second piece of wax paper over the pile of shavings. It does not take much heat for the crayons to melt.

Iron crayon shavings inbetween wax paper

Once you finish ironing the wax paper and melt the crayons it will be kind of runny. Let it cool and harden back up before you start cutting out the hearts.

melted crayons

Cut out melted crayon hearts

I used a paper templets of hearts of different sizes to lay on the wax paper and just started cutting out hearts. They look like marbled hearts or stained glass pieces.

To hang melted crayon hearts, I taped some thread to each one and hung them from my back door so that the light would shine through them.

I love how they look. They remind me of my patchwork heart sugar cookies.

Another fun idea would be to turn them into a card. Take white construction paper and cut it to the size you would like and fold in half.

Glue the hearts onto the front of your card.

I think I need to make some myself!

melted crayon hearts

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  1. Khrystyna Sulyma says

    February 15, 2024 at 7:12 pm

    Thank you for these! Our were very fragile and cracked easily. Wonder if we had too few shavings.

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  2. Lynne Zemaitis says

    January 18, 2023 at 4:34 pm

    I love this project, Karin! I am so excited to feature your post at this week’s Tuesday Turn About. Thank you so much for sharing!

    Reply
    • Karins Kottage says

      January 18, 2023 at 5:40 pm

      Thank you sooo much Lynne! I really appreciate it 🙂

      Hugs,
      Karin

      Reply
  3. Sharon Maxson says

    October 16, 2022 at 10:01 am

    How would this work for projects about four ft x 2 f wide tall. Would the wax break easily, Thank you for your time.

    Reply
    • Karins Kottage says

      October 16, 2022 at 11:16 am

      I am not sure if that would work or not. You could sure try it… but you could do lots of smaller ones to create one large focal point. I hope that helps.

      Karin

      Reply
  4. Anna Price says

    January 17, 2022 at 10:24 am

    These brought back memories. I love your photographs and how your melted crayon hearts turned out. I pinned your image of them hanging.

    Reply
    • Karins Kottage says

      January 17, 2022 at 7:27 pm

      Thank you Anna! I am so glad you liked them. They do bring back memories for me too. Even the smell of the melted crayons bring back memories. I hope you have fun making some 🙂

      Karin

      Reply

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