Shapes are all over the place and there are many ways to explore shapes. We will be doing some shape work through drawing and we have introduced beginning shapes in a beginning collage when we started with collaging with circles. In this painting series I wanted to bring shapes into the picture (literally) I created…
Torn paper art for kids: Making torn paper collage can be a real an art form
Torn paper doesn’t sound much like art at first. Torn paper collage however, is such a wonderful activity that can be done with kids of every age and stage. Of course, the older and more experience a child has with this, the more sophisticated their collages will be. If you are only used to the…
Kids learn to paint textures:
Here are two images we used in painting textures with the children. View the short video and then read the post about it. So in case you didn’t get exactly what we did, here’s the scoop. I had previously worked with these kids on creating all types of lines. To take it further I showed…
A Great Art Activity for Kids: Painting without an easel
Painting with kids is usually done at an easel. This type of painting was something called tray painting as we use a tray for the children to mix the colors on. They only get the primary colors and they mix them on the tray. When you don’t have a good tray, aluminum foil works great….
Kids Can Collage in an Extra Fun Way
Collage for kids with a twist is a different way of giving children art collage but adding a new spin on it. There are so many different types of collage you can give children especially shape collages. The point is to try to add new ways of doing things by making children think and solve…