Looking for baby safe art projects? You'll love these ten easy baby arts and crafts ideas you can do at home. Go ahead and make memories.
Are you worried your child will try to eat paint? This mess-free painting in a bag activity is so fun, and it's safe for babies and toddlers!
Can babies make art? They sure can! Check out these easy and fun art projects for babies to play with. Also includes baby safe DIY paint recipes!
Looking for baby safe art projects? You'll love these ten easy baby arts and crafts ideas you can do at home. Go ahead and make memories.
Here is an easy Valentine's Day mess free painting for kids that is so much fun for learning about color mixing and so much more!
For a fun sensory experience, while developing fine motor skills, try this list of easy art projects and crafts for one and two year olds.
This mess free painting for kids is so much fun for babies, toddlers, preschoolers and for kids! Great for learning colors, color mixing and more!
Looking for creative activities for little hands? Today we have 25 infant art activities that are perfect for toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergarteners! These great ideas are perfect for all young children and are easy to set up.
How to make your own ice paints! This ice painting activity is a fun twist on painting for kids. You only need a few supplies to make them!
Need an easy art activity? Try making some frozen paint! A fun and simple way to do process art with toddlers and preschoolers.
There's so much more to do with kindergartners than finger painting.
This easy squishy mess free autumn tree painting sensory bag was so much fun to put together. Fun for babies, toddlers, preschool and kids!
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27 amazing baby doll activities for kids of all ages. Gain all the benefits of playing with dolls while keeping them busy & entertained for hours!
This mess free painting for kids is so much fun for babies, toddlers, preschoolers and for kids! Great for learning colors, color mixing and more!
Baby Bubble Wrap Art is a fantastic sensory activity suitable for babies, toddlers and preschoolers. They will adore exploring the texture and colours, as their little hands squish the bubbles.
For a fun sensory experience, while developing fine motor skills, try this list of easy art projects and crafts for one and two year olds.
27 amazing baby doll activities for kids of all ages. Gain all the benefits of playing with dolls while keeping them busy & entertained for hours!
Set up an easy, mess-free ice cream parlor dramatic play for toddlers using common household items. Teach colors, counting, and work on fine motor skills.
Here are a fun set of painting with babies ideas for learning through play with painting items for learning about colors and more!
I love sharing kids activities that don't take a long time to set up and can incorporate items you already have at home. For this fun Painting with Circles art activity, you'll use disposable cups to create bold artwork. This would be a great art project to do with a shape study. You can also check out our DIY Shape Stickers for more inspiration. Why kids will love circle painting Easy to make with supplies they already have at homeFun, open ended painting activity similar to this Slide Painting Activity.Simple to personalize by changing up the colors Supplies needed Easel paper or large
These art activities for 1 year olds are safe for toddlers, and encourage them to engage with materials around them to practice so many wonderful skills. Engaging in art activities for 1 year olds is great for a number of reasons. It is an easy way to introduce colors,
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Make some beautiful footprint flowers with your kids feet! It's a cute craft for a homemade Mother's Day card!
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Wanting to paint with your baby or toddler, but she still puts everything in that little mouth of hers? Good news, you can make painting edible! It's super simple and tons of fun. Suitable for toddlers and babies that are on solids. We do edible painting a lot in our house, because my little girl is always
Painting with babies is way more fun than you think. Check out these 25 easy and safe ways to paint with your baby!
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Painting with dolls for preschool
This post has gone viral because it's so easy! Our toddlers and preschoolers LOVED it. Perfect any time of the year!
Are you following us on Pinterest? Thanks to a recent heat wave in Melbourne, we've been having lots of fun playing with ice. The other day I thought I'd combine our love of painting by making some frozen paint cubes for the kids to paint with. I wasn't actually sure how well it'd all turn out, but the results speak for themselves. I've since tested it with a variety of different paints and found that whilst the results vary, they all provide a fun, sensory and unique painting experience. Ages: 2+ (See the end of the post for handy hints. This is a great multi-age activity) Materials: Paint (our favourite is this easy wash finger paint as it's nice and thick! Use any poster paints, tempera paint or acrylic paint you have) Ice cube tray. (these are super cheap so it's not a stretch to have one dedicated to crafts. However, using a non-toxic paint and then popping it through the dishwasher when you're done would make the tray fine to continue using for ice) Craft sticks/popsicle sticks cut in half Squeeze your paint into your ice cube tray. As the finger-paint we were using is nice and thick, it allowed me to make a multi-colour cube as well. (This isn't going to work well with thin paints that will run together when poured in the same cube.) Thanks to the thickness of the paint, the craft sticks sat up nice and straight in the centre of the cubes. As there was such a small amount of paint to be frozen, these only took a couple of hours to set completely. To be safe, I'd pop them in the freezer overnight so that your activity is ready to go the next day. They popped out of the ice-cube tray the same as you'd pop out an ice cube. It wasn't an effort to get them out cleanly. It was nice and easy. We used the ice cube tray to hold the paint cubes in. They slipped in and out with no problem. I presented them along with some painting paper (it's a little thicker than regular paper) to my 2 year old and 5 year old and left the rest up to them. The little sticks were perfect for little hands Maddie loved swirling them round and round and watching the colour come off as the cube slowly melted. The toddler quickly discovered what could happen as they melt and by using some force. It was a wonderfully sensory experience. Crushing the frozen paint and swirling it around the page was a lot of fun and it was great for cooling down as well! Worried that her little brother was on a "crushing mission," Maddie quickly collected some of the remaining whole paint-cubes on the side of her paper. And of course, the finger painting looked like so much fun that she had to have a turn of it herself. Some of the works of art by my little artists using frozen paint cubes The multi-coloured cube was my favourite. When we were doing the activity I shared this pic on my Instagram account. Thanks to @fifomama for suggesting they be called "Paintsicles" ;) Just in case our favourite thick finger-paint was the only one to produce these great results, I thought I'd better give it a bit of a test with some other varieties of paint I had so that you wouldn't be disappointed. Here I tested some easy wash, acrylic and poster paints of different varieties to see if it made much of a difference. The acrylic paint (good varieties) was pretty thick so I tested some on it's own and some mixed with water. None of these paints were thick enough to make the craft-sticks stand up in the centre. I wasn't fussed about it but if you want them standing up straight, you'll have to pop some tape across the top of the ice-cube trays to hold the sticks in place. You can see that the water based paints (like Tempera, poster paints, easy wash paints) leave a nice colour that is a bit thinner than the acrylic paint. You'll get a much thicker, smoother and creamier result with the bold pigments of acrylic but I would recommend watering it down first as it actually spread better (and went much further) than just straight acrylic paint. (The light blue in the centre top is straight acrylic and below it is the same paint watered down about half/half.. I think you could get away with 1 part acrylic and 3 parts water though.) I think that regardless of the type of paint, they still look great and are lots of fun! Handy Tips: - Simplify this activity by freezing your paint in plastic cups to provide larger "paintsicles". With more paint around the sticks, the one colour should last them a lot longer and will be harder to get off the stick. - Extend this activity by challenging children to make new colours from the paint cubes they have. This could be by layering the colours over one another or by crushing some of the icy-paint together. Test for different results. - If you are using a paint that does not wash off hands/clothes easily (such as acrylic paint) you will want to encourage use of the sticks. You get a great result with acrylic but for younger children, I'd definitely be recommending an easy wash paint (like our awesome Micador ones) so that you don't have to worry about it and so that the kids get an even greater sensory experience by being allowed to touch the icy paint. - Mix it up. Try placing some paintsicles on a piece of paper in the sun. What results will you get? You could also pop them into a box with some paper and tip the box slightly to get the frozen paint cubes to slip and slide around as they melt. (I did have thoughts about pushing them around paper with a hair-dryer but as we were trying to beat the heat, this didn't seem like the best idea for the time, haha) - Talk with your child about what they are doing. This will help them understand the physical and mental processes they are going through as well as giving them the vocabulary to describe it. Working side by side with children while they are being focused is also a good time to talk with them about sensitive issues and their feelings. - Use new language and descriptive words like, "frozen," "swirl," "melt," "spread," "slide" etc. This will help with their language development. - Supervise. Neither of my children tried to lick the paint cubes but there'd be some kids who would (especially if you're freezing them in actual popsicle moulds). Paintsicles are not food and are not intended to be eaten. We always use a non-toxic paint but still discourage any eating/tasting of it. Want more ideas for Painting with kids? Click the picture to see the post in full. Happy creating, Debs :) Look where else we are. Are you following along? :)
There's so much more to do with kindergartners than finger painting.
Have your kids cool off making this puffy paint ice cream cone craft! All you need is shaving cream, elmer's glue and paint to make these cute art projects!
