Painting & Drawing
Watercolour Painting
Watercolour Cityscape: Easy Painting for Kids with a Printable Prompt
Would you like to try an easy watercolour painting, that even kids can make? Paint a watercolour cityscape, using a free printable prompt! This art project came as a result of our previous watercolour experiment that we named "a snowy cityscape". It was also an easy...
Painting Watercolour Hearts with Kids
Use resist to make personalized watercolour hearts for Valentine's Day or Mother's Day. The craft is surprisingly easy and fun for kids! The interesting thing about watercolours is sometimes you can patiently work with them for hours, and the picture will seem...
Snowy Town: Easy Watercolour Painting Project
Learn how to paint a snowy town with watercolours in a simple and fun way that appeals to children. This technique introduces masking tape as a useful tool in watercolour painting. Learning a new painting technique is fun for kids, and it's even better when the...
Acrylic/Tempera/Gouache Painting
Christmas Silhouette Painted Rocks with Printable Designs
Decorate rocks with magical Christmas silhouettes and a snowy sky! Santa Claus in a sleigh, reindeer, a winter forest and children playing in the snow - it's a great selection for a festive rock painting project. Don't feel confident doing freehand drawing? Get...
How to Paint a Space Pumpkin for Halloween
If your kids aren't old enough to carve pumpkins, try making these no-carve painted space pumpkins for Halloween! It's strange how it never occurred to me before that we could paint pumpkins for Halloween. Of course, carving is fun! But it's a lot more fun when it...
Painting Space Leaves with a Sponge
Have you tried painting leaves? It's a very simple autumn art project. The leaves I painted this autumn look as if they blew in on a cosmic wind. When I choose a new project, it's often just a simple curiosity as to how a certain craft can be made. Summer brought...
Drawing & Doodling
10 Free Printable Drawing Prompts for Kids
Don't know what to draw? Try one of our free printable drawing prompts for kids, a fun exercise in creativity! Drawing prompts are unfinished pictures that invite young artists to complete them. They are great in a wide variety of scenarios! We often use them with our...
52 Things for Kids to Draw
Are your kids wondering what to draw? Get this list of drawing prompts and fun things for kids to draw! “Mom, what can I do?” “Well, you like drawing. Why don’t you draw something?” “Okay… What can I draw?” At some point, you’ve likely had a similar conversation with...
How to Make Colourful Shadow Puppets of Butterflies
Learn an easy way to make colourful shadow puppets with kids! Making a set of vibrant butterfly shadow puppets and playing with light and shadows will be a great summer STEM project. At first, it may come as a surprise - colourful shadow puppets! Built on the stark...
Printable Crafts
DIY Easter Wreath with a Printable Template
Use our printable templates and decorate inside or outside your home with this attractive DIY Easter wreath! In our family, Easter is a celebration of renewal and spring. The snow melts away, the days grow longer, and we feel inspired to make changes, too. We put away...
Valentine’s Day Colouring Pages for Kids
Learn about unique holidays and traditions from around the world with these Valentine’s Day colouring pages for kids that turn into a giant Valentine poster! As I was making our study plan for February, I stumbled over Valentine's Day. Over the years, we have made a...
How to Make 3D Paper Insects with Printable Templates
Learn how to make 3D paper insects and study insect anatomy with this printable insect kit! Insects are fascinating! For a start, they live very close to us, as a natural part of our surroundings. Compare how often one sees a live bear with how many encounters one has...
Sculpting
Make Miniature Pies with Kids: Bottle Caps & Polymer Clay Craft
Do you want to make food for your doll house inhabitants? Produce a batch of homemade party favours? Or simply looking for a new crafting challenge to work on together for kids? These miniature pies, made with bottle caps and polymer clay, would be a blast! I have...
DIY Kid-Designed Keychains
I love kid's drawings, and I have always found it fascinating to see how crafters and small companies make kid's drawings into personalized keychains or kid-designed stuffed toys. This year, for Mother's and Father's day gifts, we did it too! Our first experiment...
30 Clay Projects for Kids
In this post, you'll find enough inspiring clay projects for kids to last at least a year! Sculpting with plasticine was a staple of my childhood. Ironic since my kids have hardly touched it. Instead those lucky guys have been experimenting with beeswax modeling...
Textile Crafts
Make Emoji Craft: Needle Felting for Kids
If you want to try a new craft with older kids and tweens, consider needle felting! Using pompoms, wool and felting needles, they will create a cute woollen emoji craft that can later be used for decorating backpacks. While the popularity of emojis with kids remains...
How to Start Needle Felting: Tools & Techniques
If you like acquiring new crafts or always wanted to try needle felting in particular, this is a tutorial to get you started. Included are my recommendations for basic needle felting tools and a few simple needle felting techniques to try! Even though I like trying...
Frog Life Cycle Pom Pom Craft for Nature Studies
Illustrate the frog life cycle with pom poms and pipe cleaners by making pom pom frogs, tadpoles and eggs! At first, a pom pom frog was just a simple craft to do with kids, but we were quite impressed with the potential of pipe cleaner articulation and ended up...
Nature Crafts
DIY Fairy Doors from Painted Rocks
Make fairy doors from painted rocks, and turn any old tree trunk into a magical fairy house! People like to hide - and find - painted rocks because they stand out as something unusual. But what if a rock, while still painted and unusual, became a part of the...
How to Paint Pumpkin Rocks
Learn how to paint pumpkin rocks with our fun autumn craft tutorial! I don't grow pumpkins every year. Usually, some years, I get inspired to plant pumpkins and marvel at how well they are doing until they fill the whole garden. Then we pick them and realize we don't...
Nature Art Prompts: Birds
These six nature art prompts encourage artists of all ages to finish the ink drawings of birds with natural materials. Collaborate with nature and create gorgeous pictures! Making collaborative art is always an enriching experience. And this pack invites artists of...
Crafts from Recyclables
Rainbow Unicorn Suncatcher to Make with Kids
Make stained glass unicorn suncatchers with kids! This craft comes with two free printable templates and makes for a quick and easy way to decorate windows. Rainbow unicorns are colourful and beautiful. Even if your children aren't obsessed with the magical beasts...
Fairy Lanterns from Mason Jars
Turn mason jars into a set of fairy lanterns with frolicking silhouettes of enchanted creatures! Update! You can watch a video of me making lanterns here. The post contains affiliate links for your convenience. Two years ago, I made a set of Halloween and...
Stained Glass Heart Suncatcher
Make a stained glass heart suncatcher with kids! It's surprisingly easy, with nothing but black glue, sharpie markers and some recyclables. My kids and I really enjoy the process of making suncatchers with black glue. First of all, they really are easy and cheap to...
Other Crafts
Black Glue Stained Glass Art
Make imitation stained glass with black glue! Try this unique craft technique with kids and create numerous window decorations and suncatchers. I've tried many different ways of making imitation stained glass. I have never tried the real thing, true, what with all my...
Space Stained Glass Suncatchers
For kids who are interested in the cosmos, make these stained glass space suncatchers from... plastic plates! I enjoyed experimenting with my stained glass paints, and I wanted to share the experience with my young artist. The only problem, the stained glass paints we...
Stained Glass Space Painting
Learn how to paint space with stained glass paints in a simple way! This technique works for creating beautiful abstract wall art and decorating craft projects. Birthdays and Christmas approaching, my family usually ask me at some point. "Any ideas on what you'd like...