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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

 

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Pi City Skyline

 

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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

Numbers Collage

February 21, 2009

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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by: Erica posted in: Art and Crafts, Math Activities 2 Comments

Painting with Marbles

February 19, 2009

Try an active art project for kids and paint 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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by: Erica posted in: Art and Crafts 4 Comments

Spin, Spin, Spin: Active Art Project

February 13, 2009

Make spinner art with creative and active kids

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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by: Erica posted in: Art and Crafts 8 Comments

Texas Snowflakes

February 10, 2009

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

February 9, 2009

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

February 7, 2009

Use stickers to explore a resist painting technique with kids

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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by: Erica posted in: Art and Crafts 6 Comments

The Cutting Edge: Fine Motor Activity for Kids

February 3, 2009

Kids practice cutting skills using strips of paper and straws

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

January 27, 2009

Shaving cream marbled paper 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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by: Erica posted in: Art and Crafts 7 Comments

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