art for kids

Laminated Pastel Drawings

May 14, 2013

I was given a gift card to an office supplies store for Christmas. And if that wasn’t awesome enough, I was also given an hour to wander around that store… [...]

Finger Painting on Foil

May 7, 2013

We have a longstanding love affair with foil in our house. We’ve painted on it, drawn on it, made Christmas decorations out of it, and today we got out the [...]

Graph Paper Drawing – Where Art and Maths Combine.

April 30, 2013

We had some friends over last week, and after almost a whole day running around, jumping on the trampoline, dancing, dressing up, playing vets, and chasing chickens by late afternoon [...]

Bouncy Balloon Painting

April 2, 2013

I don’t like balloons. Well actually I don’t mind balloons on their own, but when you combine balloons with kids, it always ends in tears. Well almost always… In a [...]

See-Through Paintings

March 19, 2013

I love the idea of painting on windows with my kids, but the only child height window we have is… ahem… still not painted, so letting my kids loose near [...]

Finger Leg Puppets

March 5, 2013

For the month of February my new school boy has had Wednesdays off. It has been lovely to have this extra day with my boy, and he has appreciated the [...]

Melted Bottle Jewelery

January 30, 2013

My kids have been nagging me to get some shrinky-dinks for ages. But that stuff is not easy to find here, and it’s not cheap either! I’d seen a tutorial [...]

Foam Sticker Stamps

January 22, 2013

Sometimes you just need to do something fun and arty and something that you know will work for everyone… Yesterday that ‘something’ was making stamps from the foam stickers Noah [...]

Melted Crayon Drawings

January 8, 2013

I’ve been looking for a way for my kids to play with melted crayons for a while now. The idea of sitting for hours with a hair dryer watching crayons [...]

Fusible Bead Christmas Decorations

December 18, 2012

A while back I bought a BIG jar of fusible beads from Ikea. We used them in the traditional way with inspiration from the Kid’s Crafternoon Beading book, and then [...]

Easy Tin Foil Christmas Decorations

December 4, 2012

We love using plain old aluminum foil for art. It’s not fancy, we almost always have plenty of it, yet it always looks so spectacular. And since Christmas is the [...]

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