Art and Painting for Children
All about art and painting for children, including art projects, painting ideas, colouring pages, on-line kids art activities, and more.
Finger Painting
Finger painting is an easy and fun way to be creative, regardless of how old you are. All you need is some suitable paint, some paper to paint on, and you're set.
Finger painting is an easy and fun way to be creative, regardless of how old you are. All you need is some suitable paint, some paper to paint on, and you're set.
Easy Technique for Painting Handmade Christmas Cards Using Wax Resist
Want to create your own, handmade Christmas cards? It's quick and easy with this wax-resist painting technique.
Want to create your own, handmade Christmas cards? It's quick and easy with this wax-resist painting technique.
How to Make Paper
Step-by-step instructions on how to make paper from scrap or leftover paper. It's a great way to recycle old or rejected paintings done on paper.
Step-by-step instructions on how to make paper from scrap or leftover paper. It's a great way to recycle old or rejected paintings done on paper.
Art Word Search Puzzles
Have fun with this collection of word search puzzles containing art and painting terms.
Have fun with this collection of word search puzzles containing art and painting terms.
Top Art ABC and First Concepts Books for Kids
What better way to establish a love for art in a child than to use it to teach them basic concepts and their ABCs? Here's a collection of books to choose from.
What better way to establish a love for art in a child than to use it to teach them basic concepts and their ABCs? Here's a collection of books to choose from.
Art for Kids: Creative Ways to Paint
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 creative ways to paint, and unusual things to use for painting.
Art for Kids: Ideas for Making Prints
Sherri Osborn, About's Family Crafts Guide, presents ideas for making prints and patterns using various objects.
Sherri Osborn, About's Family Crafts Guide, presents ideas for making prints and patterns using various objects.
Crayon Etching
Create a colorful crayon etching by scratching lines into an etching surface easily made using color crayons and a black crayon.
Create a colorful crayon etching by scratching lines into an etching surface easily made using color crayons and a black crayon.
Online Collage Creator: Remix
Don't like collage because you hate getting glue on your fingers? Then try this online version from Moma.
Don't like collage because you hate getting glue on your fingers? Then try this online version from Moma.
Art for Kids: Quick and Easy Way to Create a Landscape
Follow the photos and you'll quickly and easily create a realistic landscape.
Follow the photos and you'll quickly and easily create a realistic landscape.
Online Collage Machine
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.
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.
Abstract Art for Kids: Cloud Inventor
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.)
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.)
Create a Digital Mobile
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).
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).
Online Graffiti
Create your own graffiti against a wall using a digital spraycan -- just remember, you're not the only one painting!
Create your own graffiti against a wall using a digital spraycan -- just remember, you're not the only one painting!