Kids Boredom Busters: Getting Crazy with Crayons

Getting Crazy with Crayons! Are your kids bored?  It is summer, grab your box of crayons (broken crayons work awesome too) and get crazy! We have some fabulous ideas using crayons! Check out this awesome Canvas! Help your child hot glue the crayons onto the canvas, then using a blow dryer or heat gun melt the crayons and create your piece of art.  (Be sure to cover your surface with newspaper, tablecloth or plastic before starting). Also pictured below is a cute tin wrapped with crayons and crayons inside to keep your crayons looking nice and adding great organization to your childs art station.  Now for the broken crayons: Midge took her broken crayons and created Custom Crayons using cupcake liners and her oven.  For details be sure to watch the Mingle!!! 

Who loves Play Doh?  There is nothing better than making your own crayon play doh! Madge found this awesome recipe on Pinterest and tried it, and guess what?  It worked! Whoop Whoop! Get out a cutting board, knife, and a few other ingredients and make the crayon Play Doh! (Be sure to check out the Recipe that Madge found on their Pinterest Page HERE).

Do you love lipstick?  Making your own is easy and fun! With help from a teenager or an adult you too can have your own custom colored lipstick using crayons! Midge's daughter Avrie loves lipstick and couldn't wait to try it!! Together they created these three colors! Putting them in these tins (be honest who had chapstick in tins like these?) Midge found this fun tutorial on YouTube by Madis Radd to watch the tutorial click HERE

A couple more ideas for you and your kids this summer! How about Scratch Cards?  This is an easy but fun thing to do! You can make a whole sketch book to give to your child or you can cut pieces of cardstock and create different cards.  Madge created these scratch cards using: Black acrylic paint, laundry soap, crayons, toothpicks, and crayons.  Be sure to click HERE for more detailed instructions!  

Iron on Sandpaper with Crayons!! Did you see Midge's cute shirt?? She made it using the sandpaper iron on technique! Be sure to watch the tutorial on how to do it, and REMEMBER: if you are writing be sure to write in mirror image so your design will be the right way! Poor Midge, she had to learn the hard way on that one! EEK!! If you want step by step on how to make your own customizable T-Shirt click HERE

Are you loving our Boredom Busters as much as we do?? Be sure to mention it by sharing this post, and pinning our fun projects! Whoop Whoop!

How about this fun and simple way to create rock art?  Madge found this technique on Pinterest and tried it! It WORKS!!! so fun and my nieces had a blast helping me create the examples shown! Be sure to check out this pin to get all of the details on how to create your very own rock art!!! Click HERE  

We hope that you enjoyed this weeks Boredom Busters! Be sure to keep watching each month as this is a series of tutorials and videos! You can find past episodes on our YouTube channel HERE  you can also check out our Pinterest Board HERE 

Be sure to check out our main page and click on Winners to see if you are a big winner of Midge and Madge Mingle from the previous weeks!!!! 

Until next time,
​Loves- Midge and Madge