Category: Painting
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Embrace Your Inner Graffitist With This Sidewalk Paint Recipe
How would you like to just go to town and paint all over your sidewalks? Comin’ in hot with a sidewalk chalk paint recipe that will satisfy your need to deface public property in the most benign of ways. You can tell your kids you’ve mixed the paint up for them, but we all know…
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Picasso Self-Portrait Project
This. Is Cubism at its finest. I haven’t done many projects based on historical artists, so maybe that is something I should focus on a little more with future projects. There’s something wonderful about kids focusing on a specific artist’s style and then replicating that feel/technique. Any time a kid can possibly absorb some history…
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Toy Car Tire Painting
Months ago, we decided it would be a good idea to put some paint onto Christian’s car tire and roll over a big white piece of paper. It looked cool, but then I forgot all about it. After all, it’s probably not too child-friendly to back your car up when your kids are peering closely…
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5 Easy Art Projects: Spray Paint T-shirts
Hey! It’s day 3 of easy art projects, and we are diving into spray-painted t-shirts. We actually spray painted a cami top, but this can pretty much be done on anything, including pants or your pillow case or the wall or the car! Yay! Now, not all of you will want to let your kids…
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Let’s Make a Crayon Painting • Crayon Art Projects
Okay, I’ve finally seen just enough crayon painting projects that I decided we had to try it. We’ve done our kid-friendly encaustics and wax spiral project, but now it was time to get all melty with crayons. I’ve seen some wonderful crayon painting rocks that people put in the oven, remove and draw on. In…
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Back to School Crafts: Glue Batik Lunch Napkins
We have a yearly tradition of decorating cloth napkins for Fen to take to school in her lunch. The first year we tie dyed, last year was fabric markers, and this year we faux batiked. Batik is a beautiful technique of wax resist on fabric. You use a copper tool, called a tjanting, to pour…
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Easy Art Projects: Puffy Cloud Paintings
Beckett came home from day care last week with the coolest white puffy substance on construction paper that I had ever seen. It was soft. We couldn’t stop touching it. When I asked Beckett what he had used to make it, he said “a cloud.” I went on a mad search around Pinterest, thinking it…
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Cool Sprayed T-Shirt Project
We’re big fans of making art on t-shirts, because, hey, wearable art! This is a fun, non-toxic way for kids to get a spray-paint effect and outfit themselves with a new t-shirt in anticipation of Spring. I was originally going to make this project using spray paint, and was so excited to find a product…
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African Mask Project
As a teenager, I had a brief obsession with African masks. I’ve always loved faces in art, and I suppose the graphic beauty of African masks appealed to me as a stylization of regular faces. I couldn’t even believe my luck when my family visited the National Museum of African Art in D.C. I was…
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Famous Paintings Recreated Using Non-Traditional Art Materials
Copying master paintings is a traditional way for students to learn about making art. You are forced to look really closely at the piece you are copying in order to get all of the colors, shading, shapes, etc. correct. Established artists sometimes are inspired to try their hand at recreating works of art, sometimes using…
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Mini Houses- Recycled Cardboard Art Project for Kids
Raise your hands if you go through eight million cardboard boxes a week. We do. Between the cereal, Diet Coke and delicious coconut La Croix, we usually have an overflowing recycling bin by about the 3rd day after garbage pickup. And there are only so many times you can cut off a side and…
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DIY Scratchboard Art Project
It’s totally easy to DIY scratchboard, so let’s get down to it. Recipe: 1/4 cup black tempera paint 1/4 cup dish soap That’s it! Mix it up and paint it on some heavyweight paper, like watercolor paper. Let the first coat dry and then slather on the second coat. I really do mean slather,…