It's hard to find a good present for our grandma (actually, she's my mom, but Anya's grandma).
"I have everything," she says always.
Ok, we will not buy a present, we will make it!
My mom has a beautiful garden in Russia. She grows everything there: potatoes, cucumbers, tomatoes, carrots, cabbage, apples, strawberries, black and red currants, gooseberries... and it's not all. Her favorites are flowers. Her garden is full of flowers.
My mom's birthday is in February. No flowers yet :) Well, we will give her a garden of flowers made of...crayons!
To make a piece of art, we used canvas (12"x12"), crayons (we used 3 boxes to pick only greens), artificial flowers, glue gun and hair drier.
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| Glue crayons to the edge of canvas with a glue gun. |
Turn canvas upside down so crayons are pointing down.
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| This job is a little messy, do not forget to put (news)paper around. |
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| Glue flowers. |
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| Grandma's Garden is pretty! |
Wow! Super! I like it so much!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteNice pictures!!!! Interesting proces!
ReplyDeleteSuper idea! My son will be happy do it!
ReplyDeleteWow! I like this tutorial!
ReplyDeleteAlbina! It is wonderful picture and wonderful gift for mum!
ReplyDeleteThank you!
Great tutorial and the end result is so pretty! Thank you for sharing it :)
ReplyDeletewhat a great idea!! Your pictures are beautiful.
ReplyDeleteWOW! Great idea!!!
ReplyDeleteOMG...that is so creative!! I love it...who would of even think of such a thing but an amazing mind like yours. :)Was it easy?
ReplyDeleteGreat idea! Stolen:)
ReplyDeleteHow clever is this!!
ReplyDeleteGreat idea! I must doing this. Thank you :)
ReplyDeletethat is SOOO cool:) thx
ReplyDeleteSuper cool!! I am going to make one of these over the weekend...
ReplyDeleteI so love this idea....discovered this post through pinterest.
ReplyDeleteWow this is wonderful!!
ReplyDeleteLove it!
ReplyDeleteWould this work if I took crayon labels off or would colors all mix together?
This is really cute. I saw it on Pinterest. And I think your entire post has been stolen and published on this site. The site is made up of stolen content. I thought you might want to take a look. http://interests11.blogspot.com/2012/03/grandmas-garden-crayon-art.html
ReplyDeleteLooks great! I love the unique take on crayon art - will be featuring your flower version on my blog on Friday! (sourced, of course :))
ReplyDeletewow..i love your glue gun..can you please tell me how did u decorate it??
ReplyDeleteCute craft idea. I would like to use it with my after school kiddos--sourced of course.
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ReplyDeleteWhat a neat idea! There are so many things you can do with that!
ReplyDeleteHow did you do the fire of love if you don't mind me asking. I noticed there aren't any crayons left on the canvas.
ReplyDeleteLove the beautiful gift you made for your mother/grandmother. Thanks for sharing how you did it.
ReplyDeleteMy kids made this for Grandmas birthday. Looks great! Thanks so much!!
ReplyDeleteLovely and very interesting technique!!!
ReplyDeleteAdorável!! Parabéns!! Abraços do Brasil
ReplyDeletevery pretty and so much better present than something from a shop
ReplyDeletedall'Italia tanti tanti brava!!!
ReplyDeleteè simpaticissimo
patrizia
This is so awesome! Thanks for a great idea!I am going to try this at school for our Amazon rainforest project. Do I have to use a glue gun?
ReplyDeleteSo glad to find this blog. Excited about this crayon art DIY project.
ReplyDeleteGreat work they are awesome
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