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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...
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Heart Snowflakes
Happy Valentines Day, kid-art-lovers! We made some heart snowflakes yesterday. I was trying to come up with some awesome heart sticker painting project, but it was just mediocre. So we broke out the...
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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...
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Channeling Cy Twombly: An Art Project for the Wee ones
Who likes chalkboards? Who likes easy projects for kids? If you raised your hand to both of these questions, you will love this project. Cy Twombly was an American artists whose work in the late 60′s...
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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...
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Puffy Paint Portrait Project
Maybe it’s the alliteration, but we’ve been way into puffy paint lately. This project took me a long time to figure out- I knew the technique I wanted to use, but wasn’t sure how to finish the project,...
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Woven Paper Bunnies
Welcome to my second and final Easter art project of the year. Did you see my first one: Tissue Paper Easter Eggs? This one is a little on the crafty side, but it’s good weaving practice, and it’s fun...
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Teeny Tiny Landscape Paintings
I always eyeball tiny canvases when I’m at the art store and think about how cute they are. So I finally decided to buy some, and we had a little landscape-painting party. Materials: Tiny canvases or...
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Self Portrait Print Transfer Project – Using PicMonkey!
This one is slightly involved – but the results are great, plus you’ll hang it on your wall forever. I worked on this with Fen, and it was fun to watch her play around with tweaking images and...
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Paper Pulp Bowl Project
This paper pulp bowl project can be tackled by lots of different ages of kids with varying degrees of parent help. It’s so satisfying and sort of magical to make your own paper mache/clay/pulp...
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Really Cool Gel Transfer Project
Hello! I have a REALLY fun project today- I seem to be stuck on print transfer projects lately, but this is a cool twist on what we’ve done, and it uses acrylic paints, and gel and stuff. I got the...
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Easy Mandalas
Remember my Anatomy art projects for kids roundup? That was an idea from Aruna from Young Yoga Masters, who I am a huge fan of. (Of whom I am a huge fan?) Plus, she gives me awesome ideas- this post...
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100 Days of Play: Making Mini Books With Kids
Books are such fun art projects for kids. Making them is a project in itself, and then filling them up is a whole different adventure. My Sketchbook Cover Ideas post was one of my most popular so...
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Bulbous Pencils: Paper Mache Goes Crazy
I thought up this paper mache project and started giggling when I envisioned the finished product. It took a lot of trial and error, and *possibly* a few curses, but if you follow my directions, it’s...
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Spring Art Projects: Tape Resist Flower Painting
Spring art projects are popping up all over the place, and we’ve caught the bug! In this art project, we’re focusing on tape resist and water color. Remember my poost on Watercolor Techniques? We...
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Origami For Kids: Make an Easy Origami Giraffe
Our zoo sort of rocks. It’s beautiful and lovely, and the animals seem like they’re in relatively large-enough habitats. My love for zoos far outweighs my sadness for the animals being removed from...
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Chihuly-Inspired Cups Project
When I was studying ceramics in college, I would sometimes wander upstairs a level and visit the glass department. I had a couple of friends who majored in glass and I would watch, fascinated, while...
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Math Art: Mobius Strips
I wish math art was a big part of my math education when I was a kid. It’s not that I was bad at math. On the contrary, I did quite well in math, but that’s just because I was good at remembering...
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Creative Kids: Staples Make Great Art
Sometimes, those crazy kids come up with their own cool art projects. Usually they’re pretty simple, but capture their attention enough so that they spend a while – or even a few days- making lots of...
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14,000 Blank Index Card Projects
Okay, I may be exaggerating a tiny bit. I didn’t exactly compile 14,000 projects, but would you really want that many to sift through, anyway? Although there probably are at least that many projects...
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