Explore a wide range of art activities for kids using watercolor paints. Great for quiet and calming art sessions! Try watercolor techniques for children including salty watercolors, watercolor resist methods, and printing.
So you say the first day of winter is December 21st? Details, details… We declare it to be winter as soon as the Thanksgiving leftovers
We combined our two favorite watercolor techniques for kids :: watercolor resist (using rubber cement this time) and salt. The result is beautiful!
I haven’t had a whole lot of time for creative projects with my kiddos in the last couple of days because of Jury Duty. But
I’ve been admiring colorfully painted birdhouses on Pinterest and in catalogs and imagining how lovely they would be in our own garden. We have a
We’ve tried watercolor pencils before a few times and they’ve never truly well for us, but I recently ordered some watercolor crayons to try and we
DIY rainbow stained glass art project for kids using oil pastels (for a watercolor resist) and a rainbow of liquid watercolors.
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
Toddlers explore art materials (and their world) without any preconceived notions about what is appropriate and what they can and cannot do.
Spray painting with kids is a fun action art activity. Use liquid watercolors or watered down tempera paints in a cheap plastic spray bottle.
The toddler art group painted Valentine’s with liquid watercolors.
Coffee filter hearts make a colorful Valentine’s Day project for kids. Remember the coffee filter snowflakes we made a couple of months ago? We used
We transformed our melted crayon autumn leaves into “stained glass” panels for our front door window! So autumnal — I love it! Maia and I
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