Bubble Painting, Hot Rod Painting & Paint Squirting

Painting Projects for Children - Preschool, K-3 age group. The three projects on this page Bubble Painting, Hot Rod Painting & Paint Squirting, are perfect examples of, “process not product” activities. There is no goal to attain, no definitive color, or form for children to struggle with. The process of experiencing color and movement are the important lessons here.

Example 1: Bubble Painting
You’ll need :

• Bubble solution
• Powder tempera paint
• Blowing wand

Try using other household objects to make bubbles i.e. T.P. tube, straw, the plastic rings from a six pack of soda. Pour bubble mix into as many trays as you want colors. Add about one teaspoon of dry powder paint. Place your blowing wand into paint and blow bubbles at the paper let the bubble land. When it pops the color explodes.

Example 2: Bubble Painting
You’ll need :

• Newspaper
• Liquid dishwashing detergent
• Shallow dish
• Tempera paint
• Straw
• Construction paper or other paper

Directions

1. Cover your child’s work surface with newspaper.
2. Pour a quarter cup liquid dishwashing detergent into a shallow dish. If you use powdered tempera paint, mix a small amount of water with the paint.
3. Add the paint mixture or liquid tempera to the dishwashing liquid until the color is intense.
4. Place one end of a straw into the mixture, and blow until the bubbles are almost billowing over the edge of the dish.
5. Gently place a piece of construction paper or other paper on top of the bubbles and hold it in place until several bubbles have popped.
6. Continue this process with different colors, blowing more bubbles as needed.
7. To make a unique greeting card, use a piece of construction paper folded in half.
8. When dry, your child can add drawings to the picture and sign her name.

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Hot Rod Painting
You’ll need :

• Poster or Tempera paint
• Plain paper
• A few small matchbox cars
• Paper plates or Styrofoam trays, saved from meat products.

Spread paint thinly on the bottom of trays. Drive the car through the paint a few times and then onto the paper. Simple Huh?

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Paint Squirting
Easy painting projects for kids, ocean art, beach art, fish, shells, seaYou’ll need :

• Finger paint paper which is smooth & glossy
• Washable markers
• Spray Bottle of water
• A few pieces of masking tape.

Decorate the paper in any design. The more color the better. Detailed pictures are not recommended. Tape the picture to a shower wall. Stand back ~ 3-4 feet and spray the picture with the spray bottle a few times. The colors will mix and blend. Your child will be fascinated by the changes. You can use this opportunity to teach about COLOR MIXING and the reason it drips down is GRAVITY.

3 fun painting activities for you and your Children - Bubble Painting, Hot Rod Painting & Paint Squirting

Other Fun Painting Activities Straw Sculptures

How to Make Your Own Play-Dough

Play Dough Recipe
I used to make a batch of this play-dough once a month in the classroom. Changing the colors for the season. Although 20 little hands stayed busy shaping and molding, the play dough never dried out!
You’ll need:

• Flour 3cups
• Salt 1 1/2 cups
• Water 3 cups
• Vegetable Oil 2TB.
• Cream of tartar 1TB.
• Food coloring few drops or unsweetened “Kool-Aid” 1pkg.

Mix ALL of the ingredients in a large saucepan. Cook over medium low heat, until the dough comes away
from the edges of the pan and it becomes difficult to move the spoon. Remove from heat. Cool until it can be handled.
Place on counter or wax paper knead 3-4 times.  Store in an air tight container.

Bread and Glue Clay - Easy Recipe
You’ll need :

• 8 slices of day-old white bread
• (Less expensive fluffy type)
• 1 /2 C. White Glue
• Food color
• Flour for work space
• Wax paper

To Make:
Remove Crusts. Break bread into small pieces and put in mixing bowl. Pour glue over bread. Mix with one hand until it becomes a sticky mass. Take the out of the bowl and form into a ball .With both hands keep patting into a smaller ball until it becomes just slightly tacky. Dust work surface with a small amount of flour and knead gently until it becomes smoother and more pliable. Knead firmly at this time. Knead until texture is satiny, about 5 mintues.

Wrap tightly with plastic to store. Remember to seal the unused portion while working.

To color dough tear of portion needed , flatten and add color directly onto dough. Blend until satiny again. Add flour, if needed to achieve the proper texture.

Air dry. Drying times vary depending on thickness. To speed up drying place on cookie sheet and leave overnight in an unlit oven. Paint with acrylic paints (optional) and seal with spray on finish.

Play Dough - Easy Tip - Clean Up Time
Keep sticky, paint covered hands away from walls and furniture, with a wet soapy washcloth next to the project area. Making play dough is easy as 123!

We have a great recipes for play dough!  Please share our site with a friend!

Quick and Easy Arts and Crafts for Kids

You’ll need:

• bendable straws,
• tape,
• paper clips,
• cardboard or a base if desired.

Cut straws to different lengths. Snip a slit at one end of some of the straws. Insert straws into each other to form desired shape. Paper clips can be used for angled joints by bending into S & U shapes and inserted into the straws. To make “fireworks” or trees, cut several slits on the end of the straws and curl with scissors as you would do to curling ribbon.

Kids Craft Idea for creating Box Towns

With a bit of help from you, your child can make a toy with your old card board box containers!

Box Town, Box City Craft Ideas - You’ll Need :

• Saved boxes , cartons, etc
• Glue or Glue stick
• scissors
• Construction or wrapping paper
• Crayons or markers

Box Town Directions:
Cover boxes and cartons with paper, younger children will need help. Carefully cut windows and decorations from construction paper or simply olor to decorate. Help cut doorways and tunnels.

Now it’s ready for play!

For fun…….Make cone trees out of green paper & signs for roads and business. This town works well with Building Blocks added to it also!

Box Town, another great Kid Craft Idea from Kids Art Planet!

Fun arts and crafts ideas for kids. Ideas for children in preschool, k-6 classrooms, Sunday school and Scouts.

The Basics
With simple and inexpensive supplies around the house, kids can produce an art gallery, worthy of any family room! Fill a cupboard with construction paper, tempera paint, markers, pipe cleaners, colored pencils, crayons, craft foam sheets, watercolors, glue stick, white glue & children’s scissors. These basic supplies will be enough to make most of our kids craft ideas.

Arts and Craft Ideas - Preschool Art - ages 3 and up
Sunday school, scout troops, home or classroom

Anaimal Masks Craft Project
Box town
Straw Sculpture
Egg carton flowers
Marble Painting
Straw Sculptures
Pipe Cleaner Art
Toothpick Sculpture
Aluminum Foil Sculptures
Hot Rod Painting
Bubble Paint
Paint Squirting
Straw Painting
Shaving Cream Art
Potato Prints
Making Stamps
Colored Rice
Finger tip Pictures
Squeeze Ball
Easy Tie Dye
Butterfly Magnet
Clay Recipes
Tooth Pick Architecture
Bread and Glue
Envelope Art
Sock Sacks
Milk Jug Fish
Collage Place Mat

Arts and Craft Ideas for K-5:

Easy Play Dough Recipes
Bean Mosaic
Tooth Pick Architecture
Bread and Glue
Envelope Art
Finger tip Pictures
Squeeze Ball
Easy Tie Dye
Butterfly Magnet
Potato Prints
Making Stamps
Toothpick Sculpture
Aluminum Foil Sculptures
Leather like vase
Bubble Paint
Paint Squirting
Straw Painting
Straw Sculpture
Egg carton flowers
Friendship Bracelets - More advanced
Collage Placemat

Quick and Easy Art - Arts & Craft Ideas

Straw Painting
Straw Sculpture
Toothpick Sculpture
Aluminum Foil Sculptures
Envelope Art
Finger tip Pictures
Squeeze Ball
Easy Tie Dye
Clay Recipes
Tooth Pick Architecture
Pipe Cleaner Art
Shaving Cream Art
Windsock

Tips for working with kids on Arts and Craft Ideas:

Encourage all art projects as a process, not product activity. What may be a mess to you, could be a new planet, zoo or the next NASA spacecraft to your child. Allowing our children to explore on their own, not only develops creativity but teaches problem solving, spatial relationships as well as cause and effect. Skills they’ll need later for math and other academics.

Refrain from showing examples of a completed project. Especially, that which has been completed by an adult. Provide the supplies and instructions, they’ll do the rest.

Resist asking “What is it?”…Instead try “Tell me about it”

Avoid automatic praise such as “that’s beautiful” or “very good”. Asking your young artist how they feel about
their creation and the experience of making it will build confidence and language arts skills

Easy Cleanup
When working with a group. You may find it easier to rotate a bucket of warm soapy water, for hand washing, or have
disposable hand wipes available. Provide a clean towel, or paper towel for drying.

Kids’ Arts & Crafts ideas for Special Days
Valentine’s Day Crafts
Halloween Crafts
St. Patrick’s Day Crafts
Thanksgiving Crafts
Easter Crafts
Christmas Crafts
Father’s Day Crafts
Kwanzaa Craft Ideas
Mother’s Day Crafts
Hanukkah Crafts

Known miss-spellings: Arts & Kraft, Kids Kraft, Kids Arts & Kraft, Kids Krafts

Kids Arts and Craft Ideas

This personalized Kids Valentine card is a good project to make for a VERY special person in your life. The card takes a lot of steps, but they are all very easy - it’s basically a lot of folding and cutting.
To make a , you will need:

• Two pieces of colored paper, each a different color (construction paper works) plus a few scraps of paper
• A photograph
• Markers or crayons
• Scissors
• Glue and tape

Valentine Pop-up Card - Step 1
Fold each piece of paper in half

Valentine Card - Step 2
To make the two hearts you will need, cut one of the pieces of paper in half along the fold.

Kids Valentine Card - Step 3
Fold each of these pieces in half and cut along the fold

Valentine Cards for Kids - Step 4
Draw half a heart on each (around the fold)

Valentine Cards - Step 5
Cut along the line you drew. This will make 2 hearts.

Valentine Cards - Step 6
Fold one of the hearts in half

Valentine Cards - Step 7
Draw a small half-heart on the folded heart and cut along the lines. This forms the picture frame

Valentine Cards - Step 9
Cut the photo to fit inside the heart frame

Valentine Cards - Step 10
Assemble the picture frame by placing the center-less heart on the photo and gluing it down

Valentine Cards - Step 11
Glue the solid heart to the front of the card. Decorate the front of the card with markers or crayons, or with tiny cut-out hearts

Kids Valentine Cards - Step 12
Cut two strips of paper (about 1 inch by 8 inches). Any color will do

Kids Valentine Popup Cards - Step 13
Position the strips perpendicular to each other. Staple them together where they overla

Popup Cards - Valentine - Step 14
Fold one strip over the other, like an accordion or spring

Valentine Pop-up Cards - Step 15
Continue folding, making a springy strip

Valentine Pop-up Cards - Step 16
Tape the springy strip to the inside of the card

Kids Valentine Pop-up Card - Step 17
Tape the heart photo in the frame to the springy strip

Valentine Popup Cards - Step 18
Write a message on your card

This is an easy way to make a Sun Mask using:* paper and a printer (colored card-stock works very well)
* markers or crayons
* scissors
* a stapler
* elastic - about 1 foot per mask. (or cut a rubber-band)

Print out one of the mask templates below. Click on the template that you want to print.

To print a template (and not any other things that might be on the screen), click on the template first, then choose PRINT from the File menu.

• Color the Sun Mask
• Cut it out around the edges, then cut out the eye-holes
• Staple one end of the elastic onto the Sun Mask (the places for the staples are marked and are by the eyes).
• Determine how much elastic it will take to fit on your child’s head. Trim to size.
• Staple the remaining side of the elastic to the other side of the paper Sun mask.

This is an easy way to make a Pig Mask using:* paper and a printer (colored card-stock works very well)
* markers or crayons
* scissors
* a stapler
* elastic - about 1 foot per mask. (or cut a rubber-band)

Print out one of the mask templates below. Click on the template that you want to print.

To print a template (and not any other things that might be on the screen), click on the template first, then choose PRINT from the File menu.

• Color the Pig Mask
• Cut it out around the edges, then cut out the eye-holes
• Staple one end of the elastic onto the Pig Mask (the places for the staples are marked and are by the eyes).
• Determine how much elastic it will take to fit on your child’s head. Trim to size.
• Staple the remaining side of the elastic to the other side of the paper Pig mask.

This is an easy way to make a Lion Mask using:* paper and a printer (colored card-stock works very well)
* markers or crayons
* scissors
* a stapler
* elastic - about 1 foot per mask. (or cut a rubber-band)

Print out one of the mask templates below. Click on the template that you want to print.

To print a template (and not any other things that might be on the screen), click on the template first, then choose PRINT from the File menu.

• Color the Lion Mask Template
• Cut it out around the edges, then cut out the eye-holes
• Staple one end of the elastic onto the Lion Mask (the places for the staples are marked and are by the eyes).
• Determine how much elastic it will take to fit on your child’s head. Trim to size.
• Staple the remaining side of the elastic to the other side of the paper Lion mask.

Everyone loves a Lion Mask Template

This is an easy way to make a Dog Mask using:

* paper and a printer (colored card-stock works very well)
* markers or crayons
* scissors
* a stapler
* elastic - about 1 foot per Bear Mask. (or cut a rubber-band)

Print out one of the Dog Mask templates below. Click on the template that you want to print.

To print a template (and not any other things that might be on the screen), click on the template first, then choose PRINT from the File menu.

• Color the Dog Mask
• Cut it out around the edges, then cut out the eye-holes
• Staple one end of the elastic onto the Dog Mask (the places for the staples are marked and are by the eyes).
• Determine how much elastic it will take to fit on your child’s head. Trim to size.
• Staple the remaining side of the elastic to the other side of the paper dog mask.