Do you have train lovers at home? Or kids who love to paint without bushes? If so this printmaking art project is for them! Printmaking for Kids Using Recycled Cardboard! It’s an easy art project for kids that uses materials we normally would have just tossed into our recycle bin and forgot about. Plus it gives […]
Painting with Cotton Balls For Kids
Do your kids like art activities? This painting with cotton balls activity is so much fun! We love any painting activity, especially fingerpainting, but the girls really enjoy getting to paint with more than just brushes. Our pipe cleaner painting was so much fun! With spring on the horizon, I decided to get out some cotton […]
Shape Art; Painting with Toilet Paper Rolls
Painting activities are always simple art activities I can pull together easily and the kids really enjoy them. We’re always on the lookout for new ways to play with paint, like our glow in the dark painting or our painting with pipe cleaners. This week I used toilet rolls for some shape printing! Shape Art: […]
Mardi Gras Beads Process Art for Kids
Read for some Mardi Gras beads process art you can do with your kids? We picked up a pack of Mardi Gras beads from our local Dollar Tree (5 for a dollar) to add to our dress up station but before they made it to the dress up clothes we used them for some art […]
Fall Leaf Painting and DIY Leaf Preservation
Who doesn’t love fall leaves? This simple leaf painting activity with our DIY leaf preservation project is sure to keep your little ones entertained. My kids are forever collecting leaves on our walks so we always have a stack of them on the porch or in our nature center at any time. Why not turn them into a simple […]
Potato Jack O’ Lantern Prints
Pumpkins are part of our fall activities but with Halloween approaching we’ve started learning about carving pumpkins and creating Jack-O-Lanterns. We’ll be hitting up the pumpkin patch soon so we can use real pumpkins but until then we’ve been having fun making our own pumpkins with different materials. Today we used potatoes! Our garden yielded an excessive amount […]
[No Cook] Homemade Puffy Paint
This homemade puffy paint recipe is easy to pull together, it uses three simple ingredients that are typical to any kitchen (even my very lacking kitchen), and is always a hit with the kids. You can find our microwave puff paint version here for a fun art and science activity all rolled in one! Ingredients: 1 Cup Salt 1 […]
Fourth of July Craft: Pipe Cleaner Firework Paintings
Need a quick Fourth of July craft for kids? Grab some pipe cleaners and paint and you’re ready to go! This simple pipe cleaner art project is perfect for both preschooler and toddlers. Post contains affiliate links for your convenience, please disclosure for more info. My toddlers have become obsessed with the pipe cleaners recently so I […]
DIY Gifts: Painted Flower Pots
With Mother’s Day right around the corner we decided to make a little something for those special moms & grandmas in our lives. So along with our other DIY gifts, like our Tissue Paper Candle Holders, we also made these cute flower pots and planted some flowers in them. DIY Gifts: Painted Terra Cotta Flower Pots I […]