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    You are here: Home / Art and Crafts / Free Art {Boredom Buster}

     

    Free Art {Boredom Buster}

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    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.

    Paint on the table - great open ended art boredom buster
    This session lasted over two days. Yep, I left the paper on for two days. I turned the paper around on the second day so he could reach the blank spaces that were on the wall side of the paper.

    {Side-note} Click here to see --> how we stock our art cabinet with basic but fun supplies.

    Next time he requests color mixing I think I will just squeeze the paint on the paper. Look at all the containers I had to wash! This is a good way to reuse all those take out containers I accumulated when I had 1st trimester nausea and merely stepping into the kitchen caused a mad dash to the bathroom.

    Open ended art project for kids - paint on the table

    He broke all the oil pastels in half so he could "share" them with me. How nice.

    open ended art on a large piece of paper

    I'm curious why Kiddo's drawing has not really developed in the past 18 months. What he created here looks very much like what he has done since he was 2: Blobs, dots and circles. He doesn't even create mandalas anymore.  I am not trying to say he should be creating representational drawing or anything like that, I just wonder about it.

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

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    1. Mom, M.Ed. says

      March 20, 2009 at 1:01 pm

      Just found Kiddo's art site! We have one for Ben, too--there is a link on my blog (at the bottom).

      I wouldn't wonder too much about his regression to a former style--Benjamin is 4 and some days he draws a figure standing next to a truck and other days...a squiggly things with some blobs and a line.

      My husband is constantly amazed at how his young eye perceives things just as he should--his ability to reproduce what he sees and or/ its representation is simply that of a...well, four-year-old.

      I'll have to "follow" Kiddo's Art site!

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    2. Julie says

      March 20, 2009 at 1:12 pm

      breaking the pastels sounds like something Mr. Intensity would do!

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    3. Lisa says

      March 21, 2009 at 11:09 pm

      I honestly wouldn't worry about it, my oldest takes to drawing and painting on an off-again on-again basis. Her fine motot skills still aren't the best at the age of 7, but I know she'll get it eventually.

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    4. Jeanette Nyberg says

      March 01, 2014 at 7:02 pm

      Hooray for leaving art supplies out all the time! It really is interesting to see what they choose to create- it's all good, though 🙂

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