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 DIY Marker Paint
Turn old, dried up markers, into bright, vibrant, marker paint in a few easy steps! This simple technique to make paint from old markers will have you saving all those dried up old markers and bringing them back to life so they can make even more art! Do you have a bunch of old dried […]
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 […]
Photographing Kids’ Art to Save.
As we’ve been packing up the study I’ve been finding boxes and folders of the big kids’ art that I’ve saved. I guess I thought that one day I’d do something with the piles of paintings and drawings and collages. The reality is that we don’t have the space to store all this art properly […]
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 […]