If your kids are learning from home this year, carving pumpkins counts as art class, right?
Whether you do it for fun or work it into the school curriculum, it’s just about time for turning pumpkins into faces, ghosts and … Read More ...
Color by Letter Jack O’Lantern Page
Color pages that use letters to show which sections should be colored each color are a fun way to add letter recognition to the art area.
This printable jack o’lantern color by letter page from Sight and Sound Reading uses … Read More ...
Get Started Paper Quilling with this Fun Apple Craft
Paper quilling is a fun and easy craft that involves wrapping strips of paper around themselves to form into different shapes. There are special paper quilling tools
you can buy, but to get started you can cut your own card … Read More ...
Bubble Paint Flowers Art Project for Kids
I always like finding different ways to play with common supplies, and my daughter did bubble painting at a craft camp a couple of years ago and really enjoyed it.
Kids love making the bubbles and getting to use them … Read More ...
Painting with Sunscreen
This is a fun variation on making sun prints to try with the kids while you’re playing outside this summer.
Team Cartwright has all the details on painting with sunscreen, including how to do it and why it works.… Read More ...
Adorable Llama Weaving Project
I like doing little weaving projects with kids because they don’t take a lot of attention span, are great for fine-motor skill development and always come out looking great.
This llama weaving activity from Pink Stripey Socks adds another layer … Read More ...
Art Lesson – Color Your Own Italian Renaissance Paintings
Dedicated colorists will delight in 30 exquisitely reproduced masterpieces by the finest artists of the Italian Renaissance! Full-page illustrations include Leonardo’s Mona Lisa, Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus, Raphael’s The Sistine Madonna, Michelangelo’s The Delphic Sibyl, Fra Angelico’s The Annunciation,… Read More ...
Check out My 30-Day Art Challenge for Kids and Adults
Whether you need to work some art time into your daily schedule or just want to have some creative time with or for the kids while they are home, I came up with 30 ideas you can use for creative … Read More ...
Free Coloring Pages to Download
Coloring pages are a simple art activity that can actually be used a lot of different ways, whether you color with crayons, markers, colored pencils or paint, cut out the shapes to use in a collage or make your own … Read More ...
Coloring Pages from the Van Gogh Museum
If you’re looking for an art activity for older kids, or want to introduce kids of any age to a master, check out these great free printable coloring pages from the Van Gogh Museum.
You can color your own Sunflowers… Read More ...
Easy Mardi Gras Mask for Kids
My daughter is 10 and she still loves decorating masks. She made a mask to go with her Halloween costume last year and she loves decorating plain Mardi Gras masks with feathers, beads, sticker and other fun stuff.
Where Imagination … Read More ...
This Cool Book is Great for Valentine’s or Mother’s Day
I recently came across this cute heart notebook made from folded pieces of paper that would be super cute for kids to make for Valentine’s Day or Mother’s Day.
The design, from Easy Peasy and Fun, includes a heart template … Read More ...
Easy Valentines for Kids to Make
Red Ted Art has amazing crafty resources around Valentine’s Day, and every year she does a roundup of new Valentine ideas and activities for kids.
This is the one from last year but you can find a ton more fun … Read More ...
Heart-Shaped Animal Crafts for Kids
It feels like hearts are everywhere in February, and they’re fun in the art area or as a craft idea you can do with kids at home.
Crafty Morning has a great collection of heart-shaped animal crafts that are easy … Read More ...
Building Paper Heart Structures
Here’s an easy Valentine’s STEM project you can put together at home or do as a class project.
Buggy and Buddy has the template to cut out strips of different lengths and make them into hearts. Then kids can stack … Read More ...