# Melted Crayon Art Easter Eggs > Dab or paint melted crayon onto blown or hard-boiled eggs. Once the wax hardens, paint over it with liquid watercolors. The crayon resists the paint, giving colorful, textured Easter eggs. - URL: https://www.funlittles.com/art-activities-for-kids-melted-crayon-art-for-easter/ - Ages: 4–8 yrs · Difficulty: medium · Mess: medium - Time: prep 50 min, activity 30 min - Works for: one-on-one, small group · one batch serves about 4 kids - Skills: resist-art, fine-motor, colors, art-exploration - Cautions: egg ## Materials (one batch) - Crayons - Liquid watercolors, assorted colors - Eggs (blown or hard-boiled) (household) - Paint brushes - 5 piece Small glass bowls (household) - 1 piece Large pan of boiling water (household) - Small cups for watercolors (optional) (household) - Warm water for rinsing brushes (household) - 1 piece Egg carton (optional) (household) ## Substitutions - Instead of glass bowls: Recycled tin cans (Suggested by the author for melting the crayons.) - Instead of brushes: Stencil brushes (The author says they would work very well for dabbing the thick melted crayon.) ## Safety - Adult does the melting: the crayon bowls sit in a large pan of boiling water. Keep kids away from the stove and the hot pan. - Melted crayon wax is hot. An adult should check that it has cooled to a warm, goopy stage before kids dip a brush, and should supervise closely. - Decorated eggs are for display, not eating. Crayon wax and paint are on the shell. - Blown eggs held raw egg, and hard-boiled eggs should not sit out to be eaten later. Wash hands after handling the eggs. - Blown eggs are fragile and can crack into sharp bits of shell. Handle them gently. - Liquid watercolors and melted crayon can stain hands, clothes and surfaces. Cover the table. ## Before you start - Hard-boil eggs or blow out raw eggs and let them dry. - Peel the paper off the crayons and sort them into 5 colors. ## Steps 1. Adult: put each crayon color in its own glass bowl or tin can. 2. Adult: set the bowls in a large pan of boiling water and melt the crayons. 3. Pick up thick, semi-melted crayon with a brush and dab it onto the egg in dots. 4. Wait about a minute for the crayon to harden. 5. Paint liquid watercolors all over the egg. 6. Watch the melted crayon resist the paint, then set the egg aside. 7. For a different look, use fully melted, runny crayon paint all over the egg, or put a big dollop on and rotate the egg. 8. Paint that egg with liquid watercolors too, and the white egg peeks through like piping. 9. Rinse your brush in warm water as soon as you finish each color. ## Tips - Keep warm water nearby to clean your brushes immediately after you are done with one color. - Have a pan of boiling water running to remelt crayons that harden during the project. I didn't have to remelt them many times, but it was good to have that pan going. - It is best to work with one melted crayon set at a time. - Semi-melted, goopy crayon gives thick, textured dots. Fully melted liquid crayon paint gives a different result that is easy to spread all over the egg. - This can double up as a creative way to decorate your eggs. It was a huge success at our house. ## The original post by TurkeyMom (2014) Welcome to our 3rd installment of our [**Art Projects for kids series**](https://www.funlittles.com/art-activities-kids-texture-watercolor-projects/) we are doing alongside some fantastic bloggers. Our earlier art activities were [**Texture on Water Colors Art Project**](https://www.funlittles.com/art-activities-kids-texture-watercolor-projects/) and **[Cracked Wax Resist Art Project](https://www.funlittles.com/art-activities-kids-cracked-wax-resist-art/).** Today we are sharing a fun art activity just in time for Easter. { All our [**Easter crafts and activities**](https://www.funlittles.com/category/holidays/easter/)} This can double up as a creative way to decorate your eggs. **Today's topic : Exploring Crayons** Materials - **[Liquid Watercolors - Assorted Colors](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0042SR5R2/?tag=blmemo-20)** - **[Crayons](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00004YO15/?tag=blmemo-20)** - Brushes - Eggs We sorted our crayons (after peeling off the paper) in 5 colors and melted them in glass bowls ( you can use recycled tin cans) I placed them in a large pan of boiling water and melted them. Check our [**crayon candles post**](https://www.funlittles.com/fall-activities-homemade-scented-candles/) for additional details. I had a few "blown eggs" and a few just hard-boiled eggs as canvas for this art activity. My 5.5 year went for the semi-melted red to decorate her eggs. In a minute you will see the difference in results between semi-melted goopy crayons and full melted liquid crayon paint. The image below is of a thick, textured melted crayon. We used a brush to pick up the melted crayon and she just dabbed the "paint" in an almost dot fashion. Stencil brushes would work very well for this Easter Art project. Once the crayon hardens ( in about a minute) we used our favorite [**Liquid Watercolors**](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0042SR5R2/?tag=blmemo-20) and painted all over the eggs. The melted crayon will resist the water based paint and you will be left with these gorgeous Easter eggs. If you truly melt the crayons to a completely liquid consistency and make "crayon paint" so to speak then that gives a mildly different result. Since the paint is runny your child can easily paint all over the egg. Alternatively just place a large dollop of crayon paint on the egg and just rotate the egg all around so you can have the paint move all around the egg. Then when you paint this kind of egg with liquid watercolors, they look even more gorgeous. You can see the white color from the egg as some sort of "piping" haha. We decorated plenty of eggs and had a grand time exploring crayons in this fun art activity. All our crayon melted Easter eggs. This art activity was a huge success at our house. Thanks for reading More [**Easter crafts for kids**](https://www.funlittles.com/category/holidays/easter/) on our category page More [**art activities for kids**](https://www.funlittles.com/category/art-projects/) on our category page *Tips : Keep warm water nearby to clean your brushes immediately after you are done with one color.* *Have a pan of boiling water running to remelt the crayons that harden while doing the art project. I didn't have to remelt them may times but it was good to have that pan going.* *It is best to work with one melted crayon set at a time.* Now on to my fabulous blogger friends who explored crayons this week **Melted Crayon Art** with a Glue Gun from Learn Play Imagine [**Art for Kids Using Crayons**](http://buggyandbuddy.com/art-kids-using-crayons-sandpaper/) and Sandpaper from Buggy and Buddy [**Crayon Transfer Technique**](http://tinyrottenpeanuts.com/crayon-transfer-technique) from Tiny Rotten Peanuts **Crayon Resist Photo Display** from Two-Daloo **Crayon Art Sculpture** from Meri Cherry Blog [**Crayon Painting**](http://babbledabbledo.com/easy-art-kids-crayon-painting/) from Babble Dabble Doo