Get ready to unleash your creativity this holiday season with our Marbleized Melted Crayon Ornaments! These stunning crayon Christmas ornament craft is not only a blast for kids to make, but they also turn out absolutely gorgeous! This Christmas ornaments crafts for kids is fun for all ages—from preschool to elementary. All you need are a few simple materials and a little imagination! Grab your little ones and let the fun begin!
Melted Crayon Ornaments
Looking for a fun and creative Christmas craft to do with the kids? Look no further! These stunning marbleized melted crayon ornaments are not just a delightful project for kids, but they also turn out absolutely gorgeous, making them the perfect addition to your holiday decor!
Crafting these unique ornaments is a fantastic way to spend quality time together as a family. With a few simple materials and a sprinkle of imagination, you can create beautiful pieces that will be cherished for years to come. This Christmas ornaments craft is suitable for children of all ages—from the tiniest preschoolers to the more seasoned elementary school artists. Everyone can join in on the fun!
Looking for more fun christmas crafts for kids? Try our pretty construction paper wreath, adorable reindeer feet craft, or cute snowman handprint ornament.
Crayon ornaments
Have you ever thought about creating stunning melted crayon ornaments? It’s easier than you might think, and the end results are simply gorgeous! These DIY ornaments will surely become cherished keepsakes for your Christmas tree. Here’s what you’ll need to get started:
- plain, clear glass ornaments
- crayons
- pot holders or winter gloves
- hair dryer
Crayon Christmas ornament
Although you can mix different colors, I highly suggest you make each ornament a certain color and pick shades of that color. It gives a really pretty marbled effect. When you mix colors, you can end up with a brown ornament by mistake if the crayons over mix.
Melting crayons in ornaments
I find that cutting the crayon pieces into little chunks or shavings works best as it will shorten the amount of time you need to melt the crayons in the ornament.
Ornaments with crayons
Your willing helpers can then put the crayon pieces inside the glass ornament. Now put the top back on.
Ornament crafts for kids
Ornament crafts for kidsNOTE: Careful supervision is required for this part as the glass will get hot and there is alwasy a remote chance it could break. I suggest parents do this part
You will want to wear heavy winter gloves or use a good put holder because the glass will get hot as you point the hair dryer at the ornament. It needs to get hot to melt the crayons.
As the crayons begin to melt inside you will gently rotate your ornament to cover all the inside glass and create a really pretty pattern at the same time. It only takes about 20 seconds or so.
I did the holding of the ornaments at our house while the crayons were melting. I thought it was just safer. It never got to hot using my winter gloves. Please remember to use caution as you would completing any craft.
Fun christmas ornaments
Here is our first completed crayons christmas ornament. I just love the effect. These are so pretty; I think they rival any store bought ball ornament!
Christmas ornament crafts for kids
Here is a collection of the gorgeous Melted Crayon Christmas Ornaments we made. My favorites are the mostly one color with swirls of marble painted effect colors in the same hue.
DIY christmas ornaments for kids
These fun, easy to make Melted Crayon Ornaments are going to be a favorite Christmas Activity for Kids at your house.
They make beautiful additions to any tree! We are still enjoying ours over a decade later. They are some of my favorite ornaments we put on every year because they are so pretty, and I know we made them together…. when their hands were little =)
Homemade ornaments for kids
Christmas ornaments for kids to make
Get ready to craft with these gorgeous Marbleized Melted Crayon Ornaments! Not only are they a blast to make, but their stunning colorful swirls will brighten up your holiday decor.
These DIY ornaments are perfect for kids in preschool, pre-K, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, and beyond! They also make thoughtful homemade Christmas gifts that family and friends will cherish.
All you need are a few simple materials to create these lovely crayon ornaments. So gather the kiddos and let’s get crafting!
Christmas Printables
- FREE Christmas Around the World Worksheets, Lesson, Crafts, and more!
- NO-prep Christmas Scavenger Hunt printable pdf
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- Variety of Free Polar Express Worksheets for preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd graders too
- FREE Elf on the Shelf Printables to make elf antics silly and no-prep
- Christmas Cut and Paste Shape Worksheets
- Over 100 Free Christmas Activity Sheets
- Christmas Maze printable pack for elementary age kids
- Cute Christmas Tracing Sheets for toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergartners
- Free Printable Christmas Stationary
- Gingerbread Man Sequencing Activity with free printables
- Letter Find Christmas Worksheets for Kindergarten
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- Practice writing ABCs with free printable Traceable Christmas Ornaments
- Christmas Color by Sight Word Worksheets for Kindergartners
- Super cute, free Christmas Worksheets for Preschool
- Free Christmas Hat Template for kids
- Playdough Christmas Light Patterns Christmas math activities for preschoolers
- Stocking match-up activity – Christmas alphabet letters printable free
- Christmas Sight Words Games for Pre-k
You can do the same with liquid paints. Clean your bulbs with alcohol let dry pour paint down the sides then move the bulb around to speed paint then turn upside and rain exeses paint out. It will marble and move until it dries. I have done 2 colors and 3 colors
I’m wondering about storage — would they crayons re-melt and become blobs in the bottoms of the ornaments? We store our Christmas stuff in the attic where it gets really hot in the summer.
They require a LOT of direct heat…. we store ours there too and never had a problem