Painting for kids is a childhood favorite! Here are more than 50 great painting activities for kids, including painting ideas with interesting tools, action painting, and puffy painting.
Marble painting for kids is an easy and fun action art activity! Kids have fun rolling paint-covered marbles on paper and the results are lovely
Spin painting is a favorite kids’ art activity that can be done two ways: with a salad spinner or with a commercial spin painter. Your
Spin art is a fun and easy action art activity for kids. Using paint and a salad spinner, the process is mesmerizing, and each painting
If you’re looking for new painting ideas for kids, here are seven that you may not have tried yet. Each involves little more than paint and paper, but
Pointillism art with Q-tips is one of our standby, super-easy-yet-interesting activities that we turn to again and again. Watercolors work great for this! Updated January
Scrape painting is a fun process art activity for kids. This fun technique moves paint with a card to create colorful rainbows. Updated October 2022
Splatter painting is a favorite action art activity for kids of all ages! Here are tips and tricks plus ideas for what to do with
The Artful Parent’s favorite painting activities for preschoolers. Try process art ideas like spin painting, marble rolling, and marbling. Updated September 2022 Looking for painting
Raised salt painting is an all-time favorite kids’ art activity that is loved by all ages from toddlers on up. Glue, salt, and watercolors are
Here are some tips on how to encourage continued interest in your children’s easel. Try varying how and where you use it, and what materials
Splat painting so easy and so much fun for kids! This simple action art activity involves hitting paint-soaked cotton balls with a small mallet or
The best kids’ paints are vibrant, washable, and are cost effective. After years of testing, here are the best paints for kids’ art. Updated February
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