Kids Art & Family Creativity
Learn how to make butter slime with this butter slime recipe & video. It’s the best! This butter slime recipe uses Model Magic and is super soft & stretchy. Recipe and post by Maia. I have watched many slime videos and tried many different recipes of my own. Some were way too hard, some got […]
Making art with babies and toddlers can be engaging, kid-friendly and fun with an Art Crawl. If you’ve been reading The Artful Parent for any length of time, you know how much I love to introduce kids to new-to-them art materials, even at a really early age. The joy and wonder that the littlest ones […]
These 5 fluffy slime recipes are fun variations of the popular fluffy slime with shaving cream. I don’t know about in your household, but many slime recipes have been tried and tweaked in ours over the past year. And Maia’s fluffy slime recipe was one of our most popular posts of the year. I suspect […]
Bubble printing is awesome on it’s own, but bubble snakes take this fun action art activity to a whole new level! The prints are intricate & colorful. Have you tried bubble printing yet? Either yourself or with your kids? Whether your answer is yes or no, you’re in for a treat. Bubble printing is a […]
Sensory materials are great for children’s development and can be used in learning, play, & art activities. The more senses we use regularly, the better. We’ve always been big fans of sensory materials and sensory experiences. As I said in my post about the homemade fluffy slime, Maia, my sensory girl, always has some sort of slime, […]
This fluffy slime recipe is easy to make at home with shaving cream and glue! Recipe by Maia. Maia found a fluffy slime recipe on YouTube recently and our studio has been turned into a laboratory for making and experimenting with slimes. She and Daphne have made about a dozen batches between them in a […]
Play dough faces are often made by kids, but here’s a new 3D technique using upturned bowls as a base. Plus ideas for hair and decorations. Play dough faces are often made by kids, right? I mean, faces and people are one of the most re-created images in children’s art, period, and play dough play […]
13 fun oobleck activities for kids with this DIY sensory goop. Okay, so we’ve made oobleck, or sensory goop, many, many times over the years. It was actually the very first art-ish activity that I did with Maia and a little toddler buddy of hers when she was about 12 months old. I had found the […]
