Top 10 Easy Painting Ideas for Kids

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Children can communicate ideas, express emotions, use their imagination, and explore color. You can also explore processes and outcomes and create beautiful works. Today we will share with you some easy painting ideas.

You can keep yourself busy for hours if given a paintbrush, watercolors, or a set of other painting equipment. Did you know that there are several ways to paint? Paint with bubbles, salt, or even a pendulum! These are just a few of the amazing painting ideas that the CBSE schools near me incorporate into the curriculum for you.

10 Unique Painting Ideas for Kids

1. Add salt for an Interesting Texture

The combination of salt and watercolors to create texture effects is considered one of the best watercolor painting ideas.

The salt crystals slowly absorb pigment as they dry, creating a variety of star-like shapes. This is most evident in the daylight, although less noticeable in darkened areas.

You can experiment with different types of salts: sea salt, rock salt, and kosher salt. A star effect that is more prominent with larger-grained salts will be greater.

The art’s longevity is affected by salt. Given salt’s corrosive properties, it can interact with natural paper fibers and pigments in unintended ways.

2. Making Mugs With Marbles

All you need is a marble mug, hot water, and nail polish. Sounds exciting?

Fill a container with hot water and put the nail polish in it. Nail polish dries quickly in hot water. The nail polish bottle should be held close to the water. Otherwise, the drops may fall to the bottom and not rest on the surface. Instead of using drops of nail polish, you can also make swirly lines with the nail polish.

Once the nail polish is added to the water quickly use a toothpick to swirl the nail polish until it covers most of your water, or else it might dry.

Dip the marble mug in the polish quickly. Allow it to sit for a while so that the nail polish can cling to the marble mug. Then, get your mug out of the water and turn them upside down onto a towel to dry them.

3. Decorating Picture Frames

This is a commonly used DIY craft by most of the CBSE board high schools. Children paint the frame’s front and decorate it with glitter glue, sequins, or craft gems.

To decorate the frame, you can use the dot technique by pressing pencils and colors into a multi-color ink pad. A variety of other supplies can also be used such as scrapbook paper, ribbon, stencils, napkins, straws, wood shapes, brads, paint, etc.

You can also create a simple monochromatic name frame by sticking chipboard letters on the frame and covering the letters and frame with paint. It’s simple yet elegant.

4. Painting Rocks

A growing trend is to spread kindness through painted rocks. This folk-art-inspired garden rock craft is a great way to introduce your children. You can let them leave your works of art out for others to see or keep them in a felt drawstring bag for later use.

Get hold of some dried, smooth, and flat rocks. Coat them with a solid layer of acrylic paint. After drying, put another layer of color and embellish them with your desired items. Once dried, varnish them for having a long-lasting effect.

5. Decorating a Mirror

You can use quick and simple sticker decals or etching. You can also use an etching cream if you prefer something subtler. You can paint it to look like frosted glass. Tape the mirror’s edges and create a border. For a more complex project, you can use a stencil or tape to make a detailed pattern. This creates a similar effect to spray paint, but it is faster, easier, and more user-friendly.

6. Cool Off With Ice Paint

Place the ice cube tray on a flat surface and fill it with cold water. You will need a spoon to use

each of the food colors. Dip the spoon in a color and then swirl it in the ice cubes. Each one should contain a lot of colors.

When they have all taken on their desired color, place them gently on a shelf in the freezer. Let them sit for one hour. Label your popsicle sticks while they’re in the freezer with the colors you used. One for each cube. This is a great opportunity to revise colors and recognize letters.

After one hour, you can open the freezer. Each ice cube’s top layer will be frozen. This layer can be cracked using a popsicle stick. Once it is positioned, you can gently hold it in place. Repeat this process with each ice cube.

Leave the freezer to cool for two hours. Larger trays can take up to six hours. Before removing the fruit from the freezer, make sure that the ice has not frozen solid. Once they are thawed, take them out and let them sit on the counter for five minutes. You can start painting while you wait. Get your paper ready.

7. Painting With Feet

Children will enjoy the tactile sensation of using their feet to paint! Homegrown Friends’ painting idea is a great one for children. You can also use the finished results to wrap gifts.

Roll out a long sheet of paper and pour a few colors on it and then leave the rest on your feet. Make your own patterns with your feet. Once you’re done you can do some simple sketches on it or write quotes or anything.

8. Use a Power Drill to Make Spin Art

An artist first decorates or drips paint on a canvas to create spin art. You can use any type of canvas, but the most popular is rectangular cardboard. The artist attaches the canvas to a platform so that it can be rotated at high speeds.

After the canvas has been secured, the artist can begin spinning it. It can be powered by an electrical or battery-powered motor, and more complex platforms allow the artist to alter the rotational speed.

The wet paint is drawn outwards by centrifugal forces as the canvas turns, creating intricate designs. You can stop the platform from spinning at any time to see the canvas.

9. Create a Stained Glass Effect With Wax Paper

● Get Some Crayons

Because they are faster and easier to grate, chunky toddler crayons can be great. Regular crayons are also fine. Moreover, you can use any crayon of your choice.

● Grate Crayons

To make crayon shavings, grate your crayons using a cheese grater. Take care with your fingers. To wax paper, add crayon shavings. To create the center, cut or tear a piece of wax paper. Unfold.

Trays are useful for holding crayon shavings and transporting half-finished artwork to iron, but they are not essential. You can add crayon shavings to the wax paper in any design or pattern you like.

You only need a small amount to make a big difference. Then fold the wax paper in half over to sandwich the crayon shavings.

● Make Your Crayon Shavings

Place the wax paper/crayon shaving sandwiches on newsprint or any other paper that you have on an ironing board. Add another piece of paper to the top.

The paper should absorb the oils from the melting crayon. To melt the crayon, run the iron slowly over the wax paper/crayon shaving sandwich. Low heat settings, such as silk settings, are used. To reveal your new crayon-stained glass, lift the top paper.

10. Paint With Oom-Poms

Clothespins can be used to pin one-inch pom-poms together to set up the activity. To help the children remember which pom went with what paint, match the color of the pom poms to the paint color. Use thick paint in the pom-poms to create vivid lines on the paper.

This technique could be used again with larger papers and colors. It could start with dots, and then progress to paintings.

Conclusion

All of these easy painting ideas are for beginners and various other techniques are used by reputed schools to acquaint you with the art of watercolor painting in the easiest way possible.

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Shakti Narang a great teacher to whom students know they can go with any problems or concerns or even to share a funny story.She is a pre primary and a founder teacher of GIIS Noida with the experience of more than 13 years. Her vision as a teacher is to instil the belief in her students that they can achieve anything and everything in this world by working hard towards their goal. She wishes to develop a comprehensive learning environment for every child and to give them happiness to keep them motivated. Its my pleasure to share that I have been awarded  twice with IIHM Award for best teacher , Innovator  award, Long service award , Employee of the month award..

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