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Art activities and easy craft ideas for kids ages toddlers to tweens..

We love EASY art and craft projects! You won't find any complicated projects here so if it's something simple you want, you've come to the right place. Some of our favorites include:

 

Zentangles for kids

 

Shaving cream marbled art

 

Stained glass window art

 

Active art projects

Giant Dot to Dot

 

Tessellations

 

Pi City Skyline

 

Tandem Drawing

Body Art Project for Kids

April 24, 2009

Body art project for kids with big paper on the floor.

Finding indoor activities to keep Kiddo quiet during New Kid’s nap time is always a challenge. One of my favorite craft items is our giant roll of paper. We’ve used it for free art on the table exploration and easy art on the floor, but since we had never done the “crime scene” body outline art project before…
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by: Erica posted in: Art and Crafts 6 Comments

Super Easy Stained Glass Art Project for Kids

April 4, 2009

Easy faux stained glass art project for kids using cellophane

The kids and I love to decorate the windows. We often paint directly to the glass but sometimes you want something that’s easily removable like this easy stained glass art project. First I cut the sides of a plastic sheet protector so that it folded open. Then I gave Kiddo some colored cellophane that I…
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by: Erica posted in: Art and Crafts 4 Comments

Painting With Water to Make Chalkboard Art

April 1, 2009

Chalkboard art with water painting

I know you are always looking for simple, low mess activities for the kids that keep them busy and will help them let loose their creativity. I have the answer! Plus, here’s a bonus for you: it will get their bodies moving. (Note: this post contains affiliate links) What you need:  Super active, creative and…
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by: Erica posted in: Art and Crafts, Water Play 3 Comments

Art Supply Round-up

March 23, 2009

In response to a previous post, a reader inquired what art supplies we keep on hand. I thought it would make a good post because 1. we don’t have anything too fancy and 2. we can only have what we can fit in one small cupboard (closet space is at a premium in this city!)…
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by: Erica posted in: Art and Crafts 7 Comments

Free Art {Boredom Buster}

March 20, 2009

Open ended art on a paper covered table is a great boredom buster for kids

Sometimes a good way to distract Kiddo from going bonkers inside on a cold or rainy day is to just cover the table with paper and give him some art supplies. This session lasted over two days. Yep, I left the paper on for two days. I turned the paper around on the second day…
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by: Erica posted in: Art and Crafts 4 Comments

Puffy Paint, do-over

March 18, 2009

Our last foray into the realm of puffy paint was not too successful. This time I used a recipe which called for equal parts shaving cream and glue. I find this confusing. Do you realize how voluminous shaving cream is? So I was supposed to use a cup of glue? That’s like an entire bottle….
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by: Erica posted in: Art and Crafts 7 Comments

Watered Color: Painting with Rain Art Project

March 12, 2009

Painting with rain and watercolors. Great fun for a dreary weather rainy day!

Rainy Days are good days to stay indoors and do art projects with the kids. Have you ever considered harnessing the weather to make a rain painting? That’s just what we did one afternoon when my kids and I decided it was time to give new meaning to the word “watercolors.” First we used some…
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by: Erica posted in: Art and Crafts 2 Comments

Shaken Container Painting: Art Project for Active Kids

March 10, 2009

Fun active art container painting.

Since my kids are not usually content to sit around and draw in a quiet, meditative manner, I seed out active art projects like this awesome shaken container art activity. Kiddo recently did a whole lot of shakin’. (OK, that was suuuuupercheesy.) This is a really fun art activity that is perfect for rowdy, active…
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by: Erica posted in: Art and Crafts 5 Comments

Weather Wheel

February 27, 2009

Preschool science craft. Make a weather wheel

Kiddo loves to hear the daily weather report. He always wants to know the chance of rain, the high and low temperatures. He quizzes me every morning on the weather. That’s probably my own fault. When I moved to New York from my lovely home state of California 8 years ago I became obsessed with…
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by: Erica posted in: Art and Crafts, Science 3 Comments

Numbers, Numbers Everywhere!

February 24, 2009

In response to my post about making snowflakes out of glitter glue, Cathy commented that you can make window clings out of fabric paint. We decided to try it… to make numbers…. what else? We squirted puffy fabric paint on wax paper. It takes about a day to fully dry. It worked, but I recommend…
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by: Erica posted in: Art and Crafts, Math Activities 3 Comments

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