Tot Tip Tuesday: Making Valentine Wax Paper Hearts

Suffering from cabin fever? Us too. Luckily, February is here which has given us a few new things to do indoors to cure our boredom, because at this point we are just as done with winter as the kiddos. Here is our attempt, tips, and what not to do, for making the crayon wax hearts that are popping up on Pinterest looking oh so easy, for Valentines Day. 

Needed Items:

Crayons. You choose your colors. We used only reds and pinks.

Grater of some kind.

2 sheets of Wax Paper

An Iron

Baby wipes or paper towels.

Cookie cutters or other traceable heart shapes.

PATIENCE-Crayon grating is not a quick ordeal. 

How to: (Our Way)

• Place wax paper (roughly 2 feet) on the counter and place grater on top.
• Start grating your crayons on the smallest size of grating holes. (Is that what they are called?) See picture below. No worries the wax washes off really easily with hot water and soap.

• Grate all of the crayons you will be using. If you have small children this is an adult task. You don't want them grating their fingers, but if you are supervising let them help out if you wish. 
• Note to self: be prepared for crayon shavings on the floor and all over tiny helping hands. They want to touch touch touch. You can't blame them it does look cool!

• Make sure and get all the shavings out of the inside of the grater. 

• Spread out the shavings evenly on the wax paper leaving at least two inches between the shavings and the edge of the paper. 

• Place another piece of wax paper directly on top of the shavings so they are completely covered.

• Use your iron on the lowest setting and place lightly over the wax paper until the crayon shavings melt the two pieces of wax paper together.

• IRON should be used by an adult. DO NOT use small chunks of crayon left over from shaving. It will rip the wax paper and get colored wax on your iron!

• Once the wax is melted and cooled. Place your heart shapes or cookie cutters on the paper as close together as possible and trace shapes. 

• Cut out and hang as you wish. They work well in windows as sun catchers. 

• We found these work best hanging in the window as if you handle them too much the wax paper begins to pull away from the wax.

 

We were only able to get 4 hearts from 2 feet of wax paper so we added in paper hearts to our window display and then had fun with pictures pretending we were blowing the hearts into the air. Perfect for a Valentines Day Photo Op to turn into Valentines.

 Love, Megyn & Jordyn