Art and Painting for Children

Finger painting is an easy way to have some creative fun, no matter your age.

Want to create your own, handmade Christmas cards? It's quick and easy with this wax-resist painting technique.

Teach children how to make paper from scrap or leftover paper.

Get your braincells working with this collection of word search puzzles containing art terms.

A collection of recommended picture books that use art as a theme to teach ABCs and basic concepts to children.

Sherri Osborn, About's Family Crafts Guide, presents ideas for creative ways to paint, and unusual things to use for painting.

Sherri Osborn, About's Family Crafts Guide, presents ideas for making prints and patterns using various objects.

Create a colorful crayon etching by scratching lines into an etching surface easily made using color crayons and a black crayon.

Don't like collage because you hate getting glue on your fingers? Then try this online version from Moma.

Follow the photos and you'll quickly and easily create a realistic landscape.

The Online Collage Machine is the digital equivalent of collaging with pieces of paper of different colours and shapes, and pictures. And if you get bored with the collage options in the machine, there's a link at the bottom to the Online Collage Machine No2 with a whole range of new collage elements.

An on-line cloud inventor or designer that allows you to use your imagination to create a cloud, then watch it drift across the sky. (Easy to use.)

Have fun creating a mobile like those the artist Alexander Calder did. You can alter the shapes, colours, and speed. My favourite view is with 'trails' on (click on 'top view' to get this option).

Create your own graffiti against a wall using a digital spraycan -- just remember, you're not the only one painting!