I have been roaming around looking for interesting paint recipes and I found a recipe for Puffy paint and thought we might try it. It is equal parts salt, flour and water mixed with some color. I used liquid watercolor from my favorite art supply source, discount school supply. First Kiddo scooped the ingredients into…
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Art and Craft Activities
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:
The Art of Resistance: Sticker Resist Painting
Resist painting using stickers is an easy way to make a simple art project a little more enticing, especially when your kid, like mine, has been protesting, “I don’t want to take art class” every time I suggest we sign up for one. A few well-placed office supply stickers helped us explore a different kind of…
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The Cutting Edge: Fine Motor Activity for Kids
Kiddo has been interested in using the scissors lately, and it’s good practice for those fine motor muscles. I cut up some long strips of paper and drew different types of lines down them for him to follow. One strip I left blank so he could cut the paper however he wanted. Do you know…
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Marbled Shaving Cream Art Project for Kids
Here is a fun, sensory art project for kids that I’ve seen all over the internet – making marbled paper with shaving cream. If this is your first introduction to it, you are in for a treat. Kids can make a mess and stir things up but the end result is always satisfying because the…
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DIY Snowflake Window Clings
Did you know you can make snowflake window clings out of glue? The kids and I are constantly decorating our windows since our view is less that stellar. Sometimes we paint the window, or create cellophane stained glass. We’ve also made rainbow window snowflakes from Wikki Stix, but you can never have do too many…
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Storytime Trees
I realize I have been a negligent blogger and it is not like I have a good excuse, like, oh, for example, I had the baby. Because I haven’t. My due date is Friday and since Kiddo was 10 days late I’m not feeling that anything will be happening in the next 48 hours.Annnnyyyway, This…
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Easy Autumn Wreath
I love wreaths but I’m too frugal to buy one for every season. I thought this would be a fun free and easy fall craft project that Kiddo and I could do together. Perhaps the most elegant wreath in the world, but festive just the same. First you need to collect some fall leaves. I…
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Math Art: Symmetry Project for Kids
Exploring symmetry is a fun way to see math and art working together. My son is very mathematically inclined and whenever I can show him how patterns and systems can also be artistic (such as in our tessellations activity), he is becomes much more interested in art projects. Symmetry art projects are easy! All you need…
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It Doesn’t Get More Fun than Apple Printing
Today we did a fun kids’ apple craft: apple printing. This is such a classic fall art project. If you’ve never tried it, now is the time! All you need is a piece of fruit and a little (or a lot) of paint. We had a great time and it was nice project for some…
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Little Blue & Little Yellow Activity
This is a really easy kid activity to go with Leo Leonni’s Little Blue and Little Yellow, (affiliate link) a delightful book about color mixing. It’s so easy you don’t really need much in the way of instructions. All I did was cut a few cellophane shapes out of blue and yellow cellophane which Kiddo played around…
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