Painting with kids can be a wonderful and also a frustrating experience.
Kids who love art and painting often times burn out after a period of painting asa result of not having inspiration ” what to  paint
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This series on painting with kids is going to build on a series of  exercises in painting that will hopefully [...]

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. It’s [...]

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 a chart [...]

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 them a  number of [...]

I actually started this painting with kids activity by making color wheels with the children,  giving them an empty tagboard with 8 empty circles.
I realized as they were creating the color wheels that I only wanted them to make primary and secondary colors, so they would only need 6 circles.
So when they finished I [...]