National Flag Day

Today, in Canada, is National Flag Day.

So we made flags at the art table

using the warming tray.

I covered the warming tray with foil

then let red crayons melt in a puddle.

We used a metal leaf cookie cutter, 

dipped it into the melted wax,

 then pressed it onto the paper.

 This boy took a different approach and held the cutter on the paper 

on the tray

then melted the crayon inside.

 It worked well that way.

 The leaf was printed in the middle of the paper

 then we used the crayon to decorate the sides red.

The melted crayon leaves a solid colour

compared to when you just colour without heat.

 Q tips worked well for transferring the melted crayon to the paper.

Although when the paper is off of the warming tray the wax

does cool quickly and doesn't mark well.

 For those that wanted a flag to wave

we stapled the flag to a flat piece of dowel.

Happy Canada Flag Day!