Hello friends, welcome to a special online only edition of Crayons Are Delicious. For today’s episode, I want to talk about something besides eating crayons – making art with them. In the spirit of Artoberfest, let us discuss the finer things you can make with crayons – which you may or may not possibly eat.

Are you ready? Good, let’s begin with the first series of Crafts with Nico.

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So first we have that one painting color gradient thingamajigger where you put crayons at the top of a canvas and then you go grab something hot such as a blow-dryer, hair-dryer, heat gun or you may even be able to breathe on it really hard.

Tape or glue the crayons to the top of the canvas. Next stand the canvas up and have it lean on something. After that grab some sort of heat source and melt the crayons and watch it run down the canvas.

Voila, you have a beautiful piece of art to hang up on a wall in your closet where no one will ever see it. You can also hang it up on the side of the fridge that faces the wall or on the counter, if you aren’t tall enough to hang it.

Moving on, let’s talk about sculptures. We’ll keep it simple and make a box.

First, grab four crayons and lay them down in a way that makes a square. You can even over lap them. No, scratch that, definitely over lap them. Over lap them in a way in which reminds you of playing with building logs. Wait, Lincoln Logs… I’m thinking of Lincoln Logs.

Next, grab a butt-ton of glue and crayons. Side note: a butt is actually a unit of measurement in which usually refers to wine or alcoholic beverages. It’s actually about 126 gallons. So yes, a butt-ton is an actual unit of measurement.

Now that my oddly distracting rant is over, let’s get back to…. What was I talking about again? Oh right, crafting with crayons – that might be a better title than Crafting with Nico.

Start gluing your crayons together like Lincoln Logs at the bottom. We’re also going to want to glue another four like that for the top. Now comes the tricky part. You must line up a bunch of crayons and glue them together side by side and then glue them to on of the bases. That will be your bottom.

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Once that is finished line up some more crayons side by side and glue them together making four side panels. Then glue them to the bottom and the top and now you should have a box-type thing that you can use as a pencil holder.

Wait, I was supposed to be making a sculpture you say? Are you confused? Don’t worry, so am I; I say with a smiley face so I don’t get strangled. I’m not an artist or even know the first thing about art. I’m barely even a writer. But I do know how to describe something that’s in my head in a harder way than needs to be.

So, until next time friends, please enjoy the first and possibly only ever edition of Crafting with Crayons.