Artsy Ideas to Get You Started
If you are looking for some help introducing art to your children, here are a few posts you might like to read first:
Jean’s Top 10 Art Materials for Toddlers
7 Tips for Making Art with Young Children
Messy Art for Homes that Don’t have Messy Spaces
6 Ways to Encourage Continued Interest in Your Child’s Easel
How to Start a Children’s Art Group
Art projects by type:
PRINTING:
PAINTING:
- Painting free for all
- Glue + Salt + Watercolors = Salty Watercolors
- Body painting with the art group
- Watercolor painting over tissue paper collage
- Con-tact paper watercolor resist
- Tempera Painting on Canvas (or paper)
- Mixed-media Paintings and Notecards
- Spin Art
- Puffy Paint (and with the Toddler Art Group)
- Shaving cream painting and more shaving cream painting
- String painting with the art group
- Liquid watercolors and coffee filters
- Marble rolling with the art group
- Jackson Pollock collaborative
- Watercolors and saran wrap
- Painting and printing on canvas with the Toddler Art Group
- Texture painting with the Toddler Art Group
- Fingerpainting Jackson Pollock Style
SUNCATCHERS AND STAINED GLASS:
MARBLING:
3-D ART:
- Plaster of paris and the best art group project ever!
- Scrap wood sculptures with the art group
- Wood sculptures part II
- Sandcasting with plaster of paris
- Getting 3-D: painting boxes
- Claydoh beads
- Making big beads with Maia
- Making Nature Prints in Sculpey and Flower Prints in Sculpey and in Playdough
- Painting and stuffing a fish
COLLAGE:
DRAWING:
- Drawing fruit from real life
- Body tracing and a new book
- Crayon Transfers on T-shirts (Trial Run, and with the Toddler Art Group)
OTHER:
- Rainbow in a Bag: A Color Mixing Experiment
- Bleeding tissue paper eggs and art
- Art project turned lunch (bread dough faces)
- A messy party with the art group
- Handmade paper shapes tutorial
- Felting eggs for the nature table
- Tissue paper candle holders — fun and beautiful
FOR ADULTS (mostly things to make for kids):
Hi! My name is Jean and I am mama to two daughters -- a four year old and a newborn. I'm trying to parent in a way that encourages creative expression, imagination, joyfulness, and a love of learning. Thanks for visiting!