15 favorite new art activities for kids that stood out for us over the past year of trying many wonderful new kids’ art activities. The kids loved these!
We do our favorite kids sart activities over and over but we also regularly try new art activities for kids.
So while we might make contact paper suncatchers every season, do double doodle drawings anytime we think about it, and play art games whenever we’re at a restaurant or in a waiting room, there are always so many other art activities for kids that we haven’t tried.
I often come across a new-to-us art activity in a book or on a blog or think of a new way to use or combine art materials and techniques.
And sometimes I assemble the materials for the new art activity and actually take the effort to make it happen.
Here are some of these new and new-to-us art activities for kids from the past year that have become favorites.
Perhaps some of them will become favorites with your family as well…
15 Favorite New Kids Art Activities
Magazine Pictures as Drawing Prompts for Kids
Glue Art on Canvas with Watercolors
DIY Art Journals for Kids (with Drawing Prompts)
Pasta Mandalas (and Other Pasta Art Activities for Kids)
Action Art for Kids (Including Painting with an Electric Drill!)
Our Obsession with Fingerprint Art
Autumn Leaf Art with Chalk Pastels
Drawing Prompts for Kids with Eye Stickers
How to Doodle Tissue Paper Lanterns
Scribble Drawings with Watercolor Paint
How about you? Have you tried any of these? What was your favorite new kids’ art activity from the past year?
Want more favorites? See this post about The Best and Most Popular Kids Art Activities from The Artful Parent.
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6 Comments
Kaytee
January 6, 2016 at 9:31 amIt’s so fin because I’ve followed for the whole year and seen each of these as they came up, but having them all collected here and knowing they’ve become favorites is a huge help. Saving this one for sure!
Jean Van't Hul
January 9, 2016 at 8:58 amYay!
Michelle Paget
February 27, 2016 at 12:09 pmThese are such wonderful ideas! While I am not yet a parent, I am a child and family therapist who incorporates a lot of art with the children I see. Thanks for this great resource!
Jean Van't Hul
February 29, 2016 at 5:43 amYou’re welcome, Michelle!
Nola Bukauskas
June 18, 2018 at 12:06 pmThank you for the great ideas. I can’t wait to try make art journals with my grandchildren!
Jodi
May 21, 2020 at 9:29 amI am sooo inspired by your ideas! Wow! Brilliant ideas! You made my day!!!