The day we tried Thermowaxonography (made up name!)

The WellArt group has a history of heating things up so when we discovered lots of cheap wax crayons we decided to apply more heat. First of all we tried shaving the crayons onto small pieces of card, covering them with paper and ironing them. The results were quite pleasing but a lot of wax stayed on the paper (though some of these looked good too!). Here are the cards:

The bits of paper we ironed looked good too. If you do this don't forget to put a piece of paper over the crayon when you iron or you end up with a very messy iron!

Then we used a heat gun- sort of a hair drier but hotter! Again we arranged shavings and bits of wax crayon onto card then heated them so the wax melted. One word of caution- don't get too close with the heat gun at first as it will blow all the wax bits away and it is a real pain to hoover. Here are a selection:

As we went on we became better at arranging and mixing. As we had more ideas we thought we would try again in another session.