Crayon Pumpkin

I had said that we were going to try the melted crayons on a pumpkin and I stick to my word so we tried it. It wasn't until I began preparing and looked at the tutorial I had pinned that I realized she used a craft pumpkin and I had a mini-white pumpkin that I was going to use. Not that big of a difference as it turns out, except by the end I probably would have set the craft pumpkin aflame. To begin I had the Firefly once again perched in her bumbo on the table as I set up our craft station. I placed the mini white pumpkin atop a paper plate to prevent melted crayon from ruining the tablecloth or table.

 I chose Crayola Glitter Crayons because the Firefly is a baby girl and since I was pregnant with her we like things to sparkle and shimmer. Also, the Husband was working overtime so he did not have a say in our crayon choice, although we did include some Blue for him (glitzy glimmery blue). I began like she lays out in the tutorial which, if you are interested you can find here. As you can see she took the time to glue whole crayons to the pumpkin and melt them with a blow dryer and it created the neat Chianti bottle that I automatically associate with Italians so that fits with the Husband's background and culture (makes me crave spaghetti).



I had a very small pumpkin so I only used bits of the crayons (probably only half an inch) and I didn't glue them I just set them in the natural grooves of the pumpkin, turned up the blow dryer and started melting. After an eternity I placed a different color on and started melting.

By the third color the Firefly had given up and resumed watching her Eric Carle video and my patience had given out. I busted out the candle lighter! I peeled back the paper on the non-tip side of the crayons, held the lighter under them and let them drip onto the pumpkin. I liked this effect way more than the blow dryer one and it was a whole lot faster.

Since I only used the non-tip side I also still have my glitter crayons to use on other projects. If you have the patience or a child actually helping you then the blow dryer method is probably the way to go, however, if your baby can't quite hold the blow dryer by herself and sitting up still takes a lot out of her I would recommend my take the flame to it method. Either way I like the final result, I had a good time with it, and most importantly I have another set of pictures documenting the Baby's First Halloween.