Hot Wax

The unplugged theme for this week is WAX. This morning we plugged in our thrift store hot plate.

You can see we paid $1.91 for it a few years ago! Next we covered it with foil-shiny side up.

We unrolled the paper off of our crayons and wrote, drew and colored on the hot foil.

The crayons melted and the colors mixed together to make some great pictures!

Be careful taking the foil off of the hot plate because the wax may be drippy and HOT!

6 Replies

Mom Unplugged Oct 20th 2008

What a cool (hot?) idea! I wish I had a $1.99 hotplate. Time to start thrifting for hotplates!! I hope you are going to put a link to this on UPYK, it is a great “wax” project!
Michie Oct 21st 2008

This looks like a neat project!
Anna Oct 21st 2008

I have been keeping an eye peeled for a cheep used hot plate for just this reason! That looks like a heck of a lot of fun and I hope I find one soon.

Side note – apparently I lost your feed for a bit – looks like you had a great trip! I’m totally jealous.
Bobbie Oct 21st 2008

never heard of this before.. and you cant buy hotplates like that here in australia.. well not that I have ever seen.. looks like a great project..
Julie K in Taiwan Oct 21st 2008

That looks like a lot of fun!
Jessica Oct 22nd 2008

This looks like a really neat project to try. I wonder if it would work to line a cookie sheet with foil and then heat it in the oven.