Crayon paper batik

Crayon batik

The beauty of crayon batik is it can be done with simple and easily available materials.  Batik has been done in clothes for centuries and it is basically resisting wax with dye. We got the inspiration for crayon batik from makeitawonderfullife. After we discussed and saw few of the images, we started our crayon batik.
Materials needed:
1. Crayons
2. White paper – We used copier paper
3. Water color
Draw and color a picture pressing hard with crayons. Fill the spaces completely inside the picture. I drew a flower design and my daughter did sun with flower inside.
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Once the picture is done, crumble the paper. Smooth out and crumble again. We did the crumbling for about 4 times. Smoothing out after the 3rd time was a little bit of challenge as the paper was very soft and was about to tear.

My daughter was very hesitant at first to crumble the paper. She needed a lot of assurance that it was a part of the procedure.

Once the crumbling is done and the paper is smoothed out, apply the water color over the picture. Crumbling created cracks in the picture and water color filled the cracks resisting the other portion. I chose to color mine with black and my daughter chose purple color.
Both of us did not press hard while coloring the flower portion of ours  as they were not visible in the batik. Over all we got introduced to ancient batik technique with simple materials.
We did our pictures based on Spring but it can be customized for any occasions.
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