Crayola Crapola...Too good to be true

We have all seen this one before and that is exactly why we decided to make this our first post. The beautiful cascade of colors elegantly trickling down the canvas to create a modern masterpiece from America's favorite brand of rainbow colored wax is probably the most popular pin out there and with a caption as intriguing as "just a hot glue gun and a hair dryer!" we all re-pin thinking how hard can it be?!

Well, they got us folks.

I went out and bought 4 boxes of crayons, a sturdy white poster board, a new hot glue gun (because even though we have repurchased the same thing at least three times it never seems to actually exist the one time a year I need it...) and pulled out the hair dryer.

I methodically separated the colors into rainbow order according to the all powerful ROY G BIV method and impatiently waited for the hot glue gun to heat up. When it finally started oozing clearish glue all over the place I began gluing the crayons onto the poster board one by one. Side note - I tried making a couple of horizontal stripes and sticking a few crayons on at once but this proved a fruitless effort as the glue was dry before I had two crayons down.

After the painstakingly arduous process of gluing the crayons I leaned the board against the back of a chair to keep it vertical and revved up the blow dryer. I began concentrating on only a small section of crayons at a time to prevent other crayons cooling if I "waved" it back and forth. It took a while (about 5 minutes) but they started melting! "YAY" I thought "its going to work and I am going to be the girl with the cool crayon art!" Oh how wrong I was. They started melting alright, wax paper and everything. Instead of dripping into beautiful cascading streams of color they began chunking and flaking into pieces all over the place. Chunks of crayon went flying and the paper all but caught on fire while the only thing dripping onto my canvas was the weird coating of wax on the crayon paper that in turn caused the hot glue to stop holding the crayon so then whole melt-y crayons went zooming down to the floor. It was a disaster and a huge let down. 

Maybe the reason it didn't work out as planned is because I opted for Dollar Tree crayons instead of Crayola brand but to be honest I wasn't willing to spend $6.50 a box. Don't forget to comment and let me know if yours turned out any better or if you have a horror story of your own.

I give it 2/5 PinPoints because while it is relatively cheap and the idea is great, the results aren't so easy to replicate.