Painting a mural together means you not only spend time painting, you also spend time negotiating, being patient and communicating. Not to mention sharing, encouraging, working together, planning, and helping each other. Sometimes, there’s more to painting than it seems…
Easy Art for Kids – Easy to find, Easy to Glue, Collage Materials
“I want to sick something! Mum can I glue something? You know, stick stuff? You know, like with glue?” It makes me smile the way he talks. From a 2 year old who didn’t even say ‘Mama’ to a four year old who who talks like a geeky teenager. How can I say no to […]
Easy Art for Kids – Corn Flour Paste Recipe
We usually use a glue stick for collage as they are quick and easy to get out and pack up, don’t need a brush and easy for small hands to manage. But for some collage materials you need something with a bit more sticking power, that’s when we make corn flour paste. Corn Flour Paste […]
Easy Art for Kids – Painting On Wood.
You know how we are doing that crazy renovating thing right? Well there is a lot of scraps and off cuts of wood lying around the Pickle Farm at the moment. We had lots of fun creating sculptures and building things with the wood scraps and glue guns, and we’ve enjoyed using the wood scraps […]
Circle Printing Art for Kids
Circle printing is a super easy and super fun art activity for kids of all ages. With a few basic art supplies and some household items you can try this fun circle printing activity and create some beautiful art. This post contains affiliate links, as an Amazon Associate and member of other affiliate programs, I […]
We’re having a ‘Kids Crafternoon’
A big truck drove up our long drive way the other day, and it wasn’t carrying building supplies! It was carrying two books for my kids and I to review, Kids’ Crafternoon – Paper Craft and Kids’ Crafternoon – Sewing. Both books are edited by the lovely Kathreen from Whipup and published by Hardie Grant […]
Easy Art For Kids – Duplo Printing.
I was thinking on my feet yesterday afternoon, and that usually ends in disaster. Day one of the school holidays and already the Bigs were ‘bored’ and fighting. I needed something to break the cycle, but the art activities I’d planned for this week all took a bit of preparation and of course I hadn’t […]
Easy Art for Kids – Make a Lantern
I really wanted to make autumn leaf lanterns like these, but by the time we got around to trying this out we found our big bag of autumn leaves had dried out and just crumbled when we tried to wrap them around the jar. With three disappointed kids I had to think fast. We already […]