Painting & Drawing
Watercolour Painting
How to Paint Space in Watercolours with Kids
Learn how to paint space with watercolours in a simple way and fun way that would appeal to children. This technique includes the use of pipettes, which is always a hit in our house! Space. Nebulas. Spaceships. Aliens. Distant planets. All seem suddenly close to our...
Cherry Tree Blossom Splatter Art with Printable Prompt
My son and I are celebrating the coming spring by making cherry blossom splatter art. Try it yourself - with our printable prompt! Of all the amazing sights in the spring, cherry blossoms are my favourite. Alas, after moving several times in the last few years, we're...
Unique Art Gift Ideas for Creative Kids
Are you choosing a gift for a kid who likes drawing, painting or sculpting? Read about our favourite art supplies and art projects we did with them! The post contains Amazon affiliate links for your convenience. I like working on art and craft projects -always have...
Acrylic/Tempera/Gouache Painting
Halloween Painted Rocks with Free Silhouette Templates
Make magical Halloween painted rocks using our free printable silhouette templates! This has undoubtedly been a good year for all the rock painters. The new trend of painting and hiding rocks this summer has inspired a lot of fun rock creations! The summer is over,...
Magical Landscape Silhouette Painted Rocks for a Rock Hunt
Decorate rocks with elegant landscape silhouettes drawn over a starry twilight sky! Now you can also read about how to transfer designs onto rocks instead of doing freehand drawing. This summer has brought a new artistic trend into the spotlight. Some of my friends...
Space Rocks Fridge Magnets
Let the kids paint rocks as if they were pieces of the night sky and make space rock fridge magnets! Our four-year-old son loves everything cosmic. He is concerned about comets and plans to build space robots when he grows up. Very global set of mind! Together with...
Drawing & Doodling
Flower Symmetry: Draw the Missing Half Art Prompts
Use flower symmetry as a way to explain symmetry to children, then create beautiful symmetrical flower drawings with these printable draw-the-missing-half art prompts! Explaining the concept of symmetry doesn't have to be abstract and theoretical. A good start to the...
20 Famous Women Colouring Pages
Print these free famous women colouring pages and posters and learn about women's history! Throughout history and across the globe, whenever women wanted to do something daring, they always had to face two kinds of challenges. One challenge was naturally associated...
31 Fun Things for Kids to Draw in the Fall
Are your kids wondering what to draw? Get this list of drawing challenges and fun things for kids to draw in the fall! "Mommy, I'm bored. What should I do?" "Well, you like drawing. Why don't you draw something?" "Okay... But what should I draw?" Chances are, over the...
Printable Crafts
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...
Free Printable Summer Paper Dolls
Get these free printable paper dolls ready for summer with a set of light and colourful summer clothes! Having already tried winter and spring/autumn clothes, our paper dolls are heading into summer with a new set of free printable clothes. What do we wear in the...
Bird Egg Cards with Templates
Make pop-up bird egg cards, featuring a real-life egg and the bird who lays it! If you were to imagine a bird egg, what picture would you see in your mind? Chances are, it is a chicken egg, white and ovular. But the world of bird eggs is surprisingly interesting and...
Sculpting
How to Make Dinosaur Eggs with a Surprise Inside
Learn how to make dinosaur eggs, then set up an egg treasure hunt and hatch them! When my husband proposed to me, I had to go on a wedding ring hunt. With such a promising start, treasure hunts have become a tradition in our family. During holidays, we sometimes...
Christmas Tree Clay Ornaments
I planned to make a set of simple Christmas tree ornaments, but my boy turned them into funny googly-eyed ornaments! The post contains affiliate links for your convenience. Our Christmas tree is up! It is a great motivation for making more Christmas ornaments. This...
The Very Hungry Caterpillar Craft
Make the very hungry caterpillar from polymer clay! It's a suitable craft for older kids and adults who would like to get a feel of polymer clay. The good old Very Hungry Caterpillar... Like other children over the last forty-five years, my son made the caterpillar...
Textile Crafts
DIY Rainbow Unicorn Hobby Horse
Making a rainbow unicorn hobby horse is a sure cure against February gloom! I have a few certain weaknesses. Chocolate. Moss. Lemons. Rainbows. When I am feeling positive, I call them my secret ingredients. If there is a way to squeeze them in a project, I won't miss...
Woodland Meadow: DIY No-Sew Felt Play Mat
Have some odd felt scraps left from previous projects? Turn them into an enchanting woodland felt play mat! No sewing skills required. Trying a new craft is always an adventure. For years, I had a scrap of thick green felt lying in my fabric box. Recently a friend...
Rainbow Pompom Drawing Prompt
From my own experience, I know that it can sometimes be tricky to start making a drawing. Especially if I don't have a solid concept - just feel in the mood to create something. That's when drawing prompts come handy. Not only do they give me an idea of what to draw,...
Nature Crafts
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...
Crafts from Recyclables
Romantic Evening Mason Jar Lanterns
Upcycle mason jars and turn them into a set of lanterns with romantic printable silhouettes set against the background of a purple sky at twilight. Perfect for atmospheric decor, for a date-at-home, Valentine's Day, or a wedding! Three years ago, I made sets of...
Fairy Tale Mason Jar Lanterns
Turn mason jars into a set of fairy-tale lanterns with silhouettes of fairies and unicorns! Three years ago, I made sets of both Halloween and Christmas lanterns. We have enjoyed them for a while, and have since made a few new designs. Along the way, I've been trying...
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...
Other Crafts
25 Craft Stick Projects for Kids
Craft sticks are very versatile and fun to work with! Make art, build toys and create STEM constructions with your children, using craft sticks. We like working with wood! When we started this blog, we were making wooden toys for our son, but it has been several...
How to Paint Harry Potter Easter Eggs
Celebrate Easter with a set of Harry Potter Easter Eggs! In the early 2000s, were you one of those people lining up outside the bookstore doors, waiting to get the new Harry Potter book at midnight, so that you could spend the rest of the night immersed in the cozy...
Easter Egg Suncatchers
Make stained glass Easter egg suncatchers with kids! This craft comes with four free printable Easter egg designs and makes for a quick and easy way to decorate windows for Easter. We enjoy making stained glass suncatchers with kids. They so are easy and cheap to make...