Category: Kids Crafts
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Classic Art Projects For Kids
With all of the art techniques and project ideas for kids floating around Pinterest and blogs, it can be confusing to get to the basics of what you should start your kids out on. There are a handful of classic art projects for kids that I feel are a great foundation to jettison kids into…
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Citrasolv and National Geographic Magazines Make Cool Melty Ink Art Pages
There is a technique of ‘melting’ the ink on National Geographic magazines with Citrasolv that has been big in the art journaling community for a while, so I wanted to try my hand at it. I knew I would get some cool effects, but I didn’t realize how obsessed I would become with this. The…
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I’ll Have a Blue Snowflake Christmas (Tie Dye Coffee Filter Snowflakes)
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It’s a Shake Painting Party!
I’ve seen loads of shaky painting projects all over the internets, but we’ve not tried it yet. Sometimes I forget that my kids actually have their own ideas of what looks fun to make, so when my main main Beckett and I were scrolling Pinterest, and we spied shake painting, he got a little excited.…
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Art Spaces For Kids: 8 Art Spaces Your Kids Would Give Up Dessert For
Ha! That’s a total lie. Nobody gives up dessert. But these gorgeous art spaces would make us consider it. Okay, maybe for a day. An hour. Even if you can’t swing using an entire room for your kids to make art in, there are plenty of amazing art space ideas here to inspire you to…
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Van Gogh Meets Oil Pastels: Make a Van Gogh Oil Pastel Project
I’m not sure why I haven’t done an oil pastel on black paper project yet, but now that it’s here, it’s fantastic. We’ve got a little Van Gogh, a few sheets of black paper, and a whole pile of luscious, color-infested oil pastels. That’s a recipe for pure art magic, right there. (And messy hands,…
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Cool Colored Paper Collage Sculptures
What? A collage AND sculpture project rolled into one? How cool is this action? Especially if you love colored card stock as much as we do. The main thing to remember with this project is: COLOR! There are so many amazing, luscious colors of cardstock, and I love how much more vibrant they are than…
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Ahoy! Learn to Fold a Toilet Paper Origami Sailboat
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What Could Possibly be Better Than Paper Airplanes? Cardboard Airplanes!
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Moo! Arf! 19 Wild and Wonderful Animal Art Projects
Let’s see a show of hands for how many people like animals? I really hope you raised your hand in real life and then looked around to see if anyone was watching. Animal art projects seem to be super popular with kids- for good reason. Kids love animals (because they are crazy little animals), and…
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The Easiest Way to Make Ridiculously Cool Puffy Paint Window Clings
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Crayon Marker Resist