Melted Crayon Christmas Ornaments

First off, Please use caution while making these. Things are gonna get HOT!

I made these ornaments for Christmas presents this past year and they were well received!

I'm attaching a video I shot while making them. It's my first video for a craft tutorial.

Since I was shooting the video I really don't have many pictures of the process but hopefully the video makes up for that!

**I tried making a melted crayon painting on canvas. At the end of my YouTube video what you see the results!

-clear glass Christmas ornaments

-oven glove or other heat safe glove (ornaments get hot!)

-hair dryer

-crayons (I used crayon pieces that were given to me from a children's group at my local public library)

-pencil sharpener (I tried a knife at first and it was a huge mistake... it took forever, hence the pencil sharpener)

-funnel or something funnel-like (I didn't have a funnel so I used a paper plate. The shiny side of the plate got the crayon shavings stuck all over it, so I turned it inside out and used the matte side and the problem was solved!)

Shave the crayons. (or break into small pieces)

insert funnel into the ornament

Pour the shavings into the funnel (or plate)

shake it a little to get the shavings to move down funnel

put on oven glove

hold ornament in hand with oven glove

***CAUTION!! ORNAMENT WILL GET VERY HOT! DO NOT HANDLE IT WITH BARE HANDS!**

I used the high setting on the dryer and passed it slowly over the surface of the ornament. Be careful that when you tip it to move shavings/crayons bits that the hot wax doesn't drip out the top of the ornament. I dripped hot wax on the floor of my back deck and it was not easy to clean up!

I used crayon shavings to make a streaky color design, and broke the crayons into bits to make the solid swirled color.