Rainbow Crayon Resist

Crayon Resist activities are always fun and when you add rainbows to the mix that even adds more enjoyment for kids. This is always a magical activity for kids,  and why not think about pairing it up with St. Patrick's Day or Spring Weather activities?

Materials Needed:

Crayons (white always works best!)

Watercolors in rainbow colors

Paint brushes

White paper

First,  draw with crayons with firm pressure onto white paper.  White crayons always look coolest! Then paint with rainbow watercolors over the crayon drawings. SO simple an Magical every time!

I always enjoy this activity and my daughter does too! 

We made Crayon Resist Easter Eggs last year!

Warming Tray Crayon Prints

Have you ever used  a warming tray to create art? A long time a go my husband and I designed our wedding invitations using this technique.  My daughter and I have used warming tray and crayons many times before, but this time we made warming tray prints.

To create warming tray prints you need:

old warming tray (from thrift store)

peeled crayons (soak in water to make them easier to peel)

paper

spatula

FIrst you draw directly on the warming tray with the crayons.  The crayons melt as you draw. Be careful with little ones! Do not touch the warming tray!

Then, place a paper over your crayon drawing to create a print. Use a spatula to help transfer the crayon to the paper better.

Here is C's first experimental melted crayon print.

You can either keep adding crayon to the previous drawing or you can wipe the tray clean and start fresh.

Here are some of our finished Melted Crayon Prints:

Beautiful experimentation.

Flowers!

Lovely!

Large flower.

More flowers!

These warming tray prints became beautiful greeting cards.... We just loved the process!

Rainbow Transfer Drawing

This is a simple, but an amazing process that artists use to transfer images. We made it more "magical", by using rainbow colors!  It can be done in many different mediums too, including pencil, crayon, chalk, and oil pastel.  Usually it is done by creating a drawing and then coloring on the back of the drawing and retracing the drawing on the front to transfer it to another paper. Keep reading to find out the process we used to create our own Rainbow Transfer Drawings.

To create your Rainbow Transfer Drawings you'll need:

Oil Pastels or Crayons

White Paper 

Pencil

To begin, fold your paper in half and on one side color rainbow colors fairly heavily. We used oil  pastels. Oil pastels are more vibrant and you don't have to press as hard to get dark results.  If you use crayons press hard and realize you image won't be as vibrant.

Now, fold your paper in half with the colored crayon or oil pastel coloring sandwiched between (the oil pastel coloring should be inside.  Begin drawing on the outside and make sure to use pressure when drawing.  More pressure will create a better result.

After your drawing is complete, open up for your Rainbow Surprise Transfer Drawing! C could have put a little more pressure, but she still had pretty good results. The cool thing is that you get two drawings: one pencil and one rainbow drawing!

Close up.

My drawing.

My finished Rainbow Transfer Drawing.

Hope you have fun with this. Let me know how your drawings turn out!

Crayon Shaving Decorated Easter Eggs

I think this is our last egg decorating idea for the year.  We created Bleeding Tissue Decorated Easter Eggs and Hot Easter Eggs Decorated With Crayon too.  These Crayon Shaving Decorated Easter Eggs didn't turn out exactly how I expected,  but they still had pretty results and it was an enjoyable process.

Materials Needed:

old grater

broken crayons

hard boiled eggs that are still warm

paper towels

First, we used an old grater to grate some old crayons. This process of grating crayons was a big hit as it was for grating soap for Bath Crayons.

Then after hard boiling the eggs we let them cool a bit. We placed the eggs on a paper towel/napkin and sprinkled them with the crayon shavings

We let the crayon shavings melt which was kind of cool to observe.

Then we wrapped the egg in the paper towel to kind of get the crayon shavings to spread around the egg.  You can experiment with whatever method you like.

After wrapping and kind of rolling around the egg,  we unwrapped the eggs to find these swirly and colorful results.  The crayon was pretty thick on the eggs so I wasn't sure about eating these eggs.  It was a fun process though. What do you think?

What is your favorite way to decorate Easter Eggs?

***Need more inspiration fro some Egg Activities?  Be sure to check out: 60 Egg Activities for Kids from Tinkerlab.

Hot Easter Eggs Decorated With Crayons

Just in case you haven't heard.... I am teaming up with Rachelle from Tinkerlab for Egg Week. We are both presenting a different egg idea each day of the week so there will be a total of 10 ideas by the tomorrow.  Be sure to check out her post for Beautiful Egg Geodes here.  We created Hot Easter Eggs With Crayons similar to the popular Hot Rocks with crayons.  Here is a  sampling of how they turned out.

To create Hot EasterEggs you'll need:

hard boiled white eggs that are still warm

crayons (we used peeled crayons if you wanted to use the side of the crayon)

*tip for peeling crayons: (soak in water first and they will so easy to peel)

paper towels

an egg carton for a holder or bottle caps to hold wet eggs

First hard boil some eggs.  My daughter is even fascinated with hard boiled eggs. (actually raw eggs, plastic eggs...any egg.)  This could be an experiment of its own in showing how the inside of an egg becomes a solid when cooked.  Let the eggs cool a bit, but not that much.  Have your crayons ready.  Place the egg on either a paper towel, a bottle cap, or in the egg tray sideways and begin coloring.  The trick is to hold the crayon on the egg so that it will melt on to the egg.

Here are our eggs resting sideways on the egg carton. This seemed to work well.  You don't want to turn the egg on the paper towel or a lot of the crayon will rub off....which is kind of a cool effect too. NOTE: Be careful with hot eggs and young children because they may get burned. What you may think is warm could be very HOT to them.

Here is one of our eggs. Beautiful.

And another.

A few more.  I think I enjoyed this more than C, but that is okay.  I'm sure other kids out there will have FUN!  I never tried this before and definitely liked the results.

What do you think?

Be sure to check out TinkerLab and their egg-citing egg activity: Egg Geodes for today here.  Also, be sure to check out all of our other experiments from the beginning of the week:

Bleeding Tissue Easter Eggs

Walking on Raw Eggs

The Transparent and Bouncy Egg Experiment

Make Your Own Egg Tempera Paint

Naturally Decorated Marbled Eggs

Three Easy Tricks for Blown-Out Eggs

*Check back tomorrow for 2 more Egg Ideas to finish off the week!