crayon monogram

i decided to make a crayon monogram for my sister for Christmas so she could hang it on the wall in her classroom!  i saw a picture of one on pinterest.com a couple weeks before Christmas and it totally caught my eye! it turned out quite adorable.

supplies:

2 boxes of crayons (i purchased 3 boxes because i some of the areas in the letter S needed 3 crayons to stretch across the whole letter (you will see later) so you may need more than 2 boxes depending on what letter you are doing 

foam board or thick piece of paper

picture frame

tacky glue

spray adhesive

razor blades (or a knife that you don't care if you cut crayons with it)

i started out by searching google images for a printable bubble letter S that i could then use in a word document so i could also type her name at the bottom. 

**i also printed out a couple sheets that just had her name at the bottom (no letter) so i could trace lightly with pencil for the final project.  i just erased any lines that showed up after gluing crayons down.**

next begins the process of picking the crayons you want to use.  i elected to not use very many of the browns, tans, greys, ect in my project because i wanted it to be vibrant and colorful, but pick whatever colors you want!  

**there are several ways you can arrange the crayons on the letter.  i chose to do crayon points alternating directions each row.  if you do a google image search of "crayon monogram" you will see tons of other variations to look at**

i used a razor blade to cut the crayons, but i was told that if you warm up an old knife for a second with a lighter they will cut very easy as well.  i didn't have any problems with the razor blades though.

there isn't an exact science to this obviously.  you can see below that some of my crayons didn't line up perfectly with the template, but like i said above, i just traced the letter onto the final page so i could erase any parts that didn't cover perfectly.  

i then took that traced page and used the spray adhesive to hook it to a piece of foam board that i had cut to fit the frame i bought (11x14)  you don't have to use a certain frame though! choose whatever size and style you like.

**if you buy a frame that has a mat with it as well you can use the mat as a template for the foam board size and you can also use the mat to figure out where the center is to attach your page so it will be visible under the mat.**

after i had everything laid out like i wanted, i then took my traced letter page and started moving crayons over to it, hooking them down with a bead of tacky glue across the bottom of the crayon.

the tacky glue doesn't take too long to dry, maybe an hour or so, and then i erased any lines that showed through from the traced template.

frame and done :) super cute for a child's bedroom, playroom or classroom!

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