An easy tutorial for making plastic bead suncatchers with a rainbow of translucent plastic pony beads. Includes instructions, tips, and a video. If you’ve been following me for a while, you might remember when we went through an obsession with melted bead suncatchers, making everything from basic suncatchers to melted bead art, garlands to DIY […]
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How to Make Rainbow Plastic Bead Suncatchers
Watercolor Butterflies with the Rubbing Alcohol Technique
How to paint beautiful watercolor butterflies using the rubbing alcohol technique for the decorations on the butterfly wings. This is a fun art idea for preschoolers on up. This is going to be a quick post about painting watercolor butterflies with one of our favorite watercolor techniques—rubbing alcohol on watercolors. We don’t use it as […]
How to Make Homemade Bubbles
How to make homemade bubbles for kids so you have a never-ending supply of bubble solution. This is the easiest and quickest homemade bubbles recipe and doesn’t use glycerine. When I wrote about making homemade bubble wands with the kids, I promised to share photos of them using their new bubble wands as well as […]
100 Summer Crafts & Activities for Kids (with Printable List)
Here are 100 fun summer crafts and activities to keep the kids engaged all summer long! Includes summer craft ideas, art activities, fun science and more. Summertime, and the livin is easy… I love summer because of the tank top weather, the profusion of natural life all around us, the unscheduled days, and the bounty […]
Art & Crafts Supplies by Kid Made Modern (+ Summer Giveaway)
Welcome to Day 1 of the summer giveaways on The Artful Parent! Today we turn it over to Kid Made Modern who will tell you about their company and offer you the chance to win an $100 gift card for their amazing art supplies. Note: To see the full line up of giveaways and to enter others, […]
Start Your Summer with the 7 Days of Summer Giveaways!
Join us on The Artful Parent to kick off summer with these special summer giveaways from some of our favorite companies. Check in each day to enter to win! Would you like 7 chances to win 7 awesome giveaway packages for your kids and family? To celebrate the end of school and warm summer days […]
A Fun Way to Make Butterfly Symmetry Paintings
Here’s an easy and fun way to make butterfly symmetry paintings with kids. Add drops of paint to one side of a paper butterfly, fold the other half over, rub with hands, then open to reveal a symmetrical butterfly painting! We all love symmetry painting, right? Kids love it. It’s easy, fun, and the result […]
An Invitation to Create with Flowers
We’re always looking for simple art activities and engaging learning opportunities for our children, aren’t we? Today, I have my friend Meri Cherry here to show us how to set up an Invitation to Create with flowers. The process works for other creative invitations as well and is an easy way to incorporate more process […]