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Cool Art Techniques To Try With Your Kids

Jul 28, 2021 | Activities | 0 Comments | 160

Cool Art activities can be extremely soothing for kids. It’s a release for them, and allows them to express themselves. A lot of art activities also double up as sensory play, encouraging kids to work with their hands and develop tactile exploration and experiment with how different materials feel and look.

If the kids are hitting a creative block in terms of methods of painting, or if they are finding it repetitive, introduce some of these fun painting activities which will definitely pique their interest and renew their zeal!

Candle Wax Resist Art

What you need: a candle, paints, and a blank canvas. Round up the kids, and get them to spend a fun afternoon with wax and paint by following this tutorial by TinkerLab.  This simple painting activity  will help kids understand the visual effect of wax on paint. They are going to thoroughly enjoy the look of this technique !

Marble Painting

Check out Duck Duck Goose’s tutorial on painting with marbles. This is a great sensory activity for kids, and also works as a fun fine motor skill activity for preschoolers as they pick up marbles and coat them with paint. Delight in the sounds, sights, and feel of this easy painting activity for kids!

Melted Crayon Painting

Pink Stripey Socks has a wonderfully simple art activity for kids – and it calls for a hairdryer! Watch the crayons melt and the colours combine to form different colours. Packing in a simple and practical science lesson of the effect of heat on solids, this activity is perfect if you have old and broken bits and pieces of crayons lying at the bottom of the basket.

Bubble Wrap Printing

Collect all that bubble wrap lying around from the packaging of your online purchases for this painting activity from Art Bart Blog. Step one: stop the kids from popping the bubbles! And then proceed with this lovely activity which you can use to decorate wrapping paper and envelopes!

Toothbrush Spray Painting

Have an old toothbrush lying around? Recycle it for this delightful painting technique – a perfect addition to the little one’s art sketchbook. Get the kids to observe and compare the differences between the effects of a paintbrush, and that of a toothbrush. You can watch how to do it on The Home Lady Crafts.

Splatter Painting

This is a super fun activity for kids, where the they can let loose and find art while making a mess! Follow Chelsea’s steps for this activity over at Buggy and Buddy.

Pulled String Painting

Using just some humble pieces of string/yarn, create interesting patterns with these techniques by Inspiration Laboratories. Get the kids to come up with different colour combinations to make it even more visually appealing, and challenge them to form unique techniques with which to make art with string and paint!

Not sure of which art supplies to get for the little ones? Check out Camlin Kokuyo’s trusted range of art products – from poster paints to water colours to wax crayons!

These are few Cool Art Techniques for Kids.

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