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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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:
Shaken Container Painting: Art Project for Active Kids
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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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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Numbers, Numbers Everywhere!
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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Numbers Collage
On Thursday afternoon I really wanted to go outside but Kiddo was adamantly against it (as he is to most of my suggestions these days) and since I had a headache, 4 hours of sleep and we had gone to Manhattan at 7:30 in the morning for an appointment, I didn’t press the issue. Of…
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Painting with Marbles
Even though my son is not naturally drawn to art projects, he likes to get creative when there is some sort of physical activity involved. He likes art which is action oriented: sticking, squirting, mixing, smooshing, spinning and now… rolling. First, gather materials: baking pans with high sides, paper cut to fit, marbles, washable paint…
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Spin, Spin, Spin: Active Art Project
My son loves art that is active! He likes his creative projects to include shaking or rolling or squishing. Here’s a fun idea that uses spinning. I have seen spin art created in a salad spinner on several blogs, including Let’s Explore and The Artful Parent. I thought it was high time I stole borrowed…
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Texas Snowflakes
I am really on a roll with these art project lately. Again, this uses the liquid watercolors we have used for making playdough, puffy paint, marbleized paper, etc. Normal people would use regular coffee filters or tissue paper. We are not normal and we use “Texas Snowflakes.” That name cracks me up. I like to…
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Puffy Paint
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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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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