Removing wax crayon from wood

arwenelf

Hi
I am hoping that one of you lovely people may be able to help. My LO has drawn all over one of his wooden jigsaws with a crayon! :eek: Does anyone know how I can go about removing it? Most of the time he is a little :A but give him a crayon and it turns out like this !!!

angelavdavis

Can you place the pieces under a couple of sheets of kitchen roll and iron over with a warm iron to melt the wax? It works with candles so I assume this should also work with crayon?

robb01

angelavdavis wrote: »

Can you place the pieces under a couple of sheets of kitchen roll and iron over with a warm iron to melt the wax? It works with candles so I assume this should also work with crayon?

Thats the method i typically use, it warms up the crayon easy enough to remove

baby_fuzz

I don't know any moneysaving ways, but we used a product specifically for removing candlewax... perhaps something like that would do?

Jorgan_2

I have no idea if this would work with a wax crayon, but a normal pencil rubber removes wax from the black trim on cars, maybe worth giving it a go.

arwenelf

thank you, I will try these and let you know how I get on!!

arwenelf

ooooh, the pencil eraser worked a treat thank you!!! Knew you lovely lot would know the answer! :beer:

Jorgan_2

arwenelf wrote: »

ooooh, the pencil eraser worked a treat thank you!!! Knew you lovely lot would know the answer! :beer:

Thats good news, glad it worked.