Image Credit:  Tina Truelove (Abundant Family Living)

Melted Crayon Pumpkin Activity for Kids

We decided to make an old favorite – melted crayon pumpkins!  I love these because they remind me of stained glass.  It is especially pretty when you have several kids who use different colors.  The pumpkins all turn out differently and they look so pretty hanging in a well-lit window.

Image Credit:  Tina Truelove (Abundant Family Living)

Image Credit:  Tina Truelove (Abundant Family Living)

First, we placed wax paper on the table.

Image Credit:  Tina Truelove (Abundant Family Living)

We used a pencil sharpener to grate crayon shavings onto the wax paper.

Image Credit:  Tina Truelove (Abundant-Family-Living)

We used several of our favorite fall colors.

Image Credit:  Tina Truelove (Abundant Family Living)

We arranged a clump of green crayon shavings at the spot where the stem should be.

Image Credit:  Tina Truelove (Abundant Family Living)

 We placed a second sheet of wax  paper on top of our crayon shavings.

Image Credit:  Tina Truelove (Abundant Family Living)

We placed a dish towel on top of the second layer of wax paper.

Image Credit:  Tina Truelove (Abundant Family Living)

We used an iron to press and melt the crayon shavings.

Image Credit:  Tina Truelove (Abundant Family Living)

After lifting the iron, we allowed the melted crayons to cool.  We used a sharpie marker to draw the outline of a pumpkin.

Image Credit:  Tina Truelove (Abundant Family Living)

 Finally, we cut out our melted crayon pumpkin.

 We displayed our melted crayon pumpkin in the window.  The colors are pretty and it looks like stained glass artwork.