Crayon-Inspired Charm

This is a super adorable little charm. It looks just like a small crayon, and it is sure to delight you in and out of the classroom!

• Jewelry eyepins
• Salt dough (easy to make)
• Super glue
• A super fine paintbrush or toothpick
• A medium paintbrush
• Black paint
• A color of your choosing
• Craft finihser (optional)

Take a small ball of salt dough (1/2" in diameter) and mold it into a crayon shape.

With a toothpick or your eyepin, make a hole in the top of your salt dough deep enough to your liking. Let it dry out in the sun for a few days, or you could look up instructions on how to microwave it or bake it (how you do this depends on your appliances and what salt dough recipe you use).

Trim the eyepin so that the tip of the eye is poking out of the crayon's hole. Superglue it into place. Let it dry.

1. Mix your paints
2. Take a paper plate and squirt out some black paint, and two different blobs of (in this case) purple paint. Take a toothpick and put a smidge of the black paint and mix it into ONE of the purple blobs to get light purple, medium purple, and black paint splotches.
3. Paint
4. Paint the whole crayon with the medium purple paint first, and let it dry.
5. Letting the point at the bottom and a sliver at the top remain a medium purple, paint a tube of light purple around the crayon, much like how a real crayon and its wrapper would look. Let it dry.
6. On the top and bottom of the light-purple tube, paint a small strip of black with a fine brush. Let it dry.
7. Dip a toothpick into light purple paint, and draw a squiggle across the middle of the black strip. Let it dry.