Lay each leaf on waxed paper or parchment paper for just a few minutes to finish drying, and then your leaves are ready!
While the beeswax is still liquid, you can pour it from the crockpot into a container for storage, then quickly wipe down the bowl of the crockpot. If you plan another beeswax craft in the next few weeks, however, you can also just turn off the crockpot and let the beeswax solidify there, ready to melt again to preserve more leaves after your next nature walk, or to use as a base for your next batch of homemade modeling beeswax.
Our beeswax leaves are decorating our nature table right now, but we have a special project planned for them that I’ll write about next week.
