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.
We made some mirror-image string prints with the toddler art group yesterday. It’s actually a variation of making ink blots or blottos, but using paint-covered string instead.
This version of invisible ink was so much easier and more rewarding than our lemon juice flop. Although I realize we ought to give the
Last week for the toddler art group I taped a variety of materials to the studio tables with the idea of letting the kiddos explore
Spray painting with kids is a fun action art activity. Use liquid watercolors or watered down tempera paints in a cheap plastic spray bottle.
Have you tried muffin tin printing with kids? I came across this simple printmaking project in one of MaryAnn Kohl’s books and we’ve had so much
Tracing shapes preschool – this is an is a fun art activity for kids to learn how 3D items translate into 2D drawings and paintings
We’ve been getting one of our mirrors down lately and propping it up on Maia’s easel for drawing and other art making. She’s drawn on
Today was a day for painting outdoors. The weather was perfect, so I carried our kids easel out to the backyard, added a new roll
Here’s a melted crayons art project that even the youngest kid can do (unlike drawing on a hot cookie sheet, as we did recently)! Wax
We did some good old-fashioned watercolor resist painting the other day, using a melting crayon art technique and mostly Christmas colors.
We tried out some string painting ideas with the kids art group yesterday. The materials were simple: Yarn Washable tempera paint And white paper And
I recently checked the Mouse Paint book by Ellen Stoll Walsh out of the library (and liked it so much I bought it!). It’s a simple and
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