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Kids Painting Activity: How to Create Flower Art!

April 2, 2013 by Quirky Momma Leave a Comment

Shaunna writes at Fantastic Fun and Learning about the hands-on activities and crafts she does with her 2 daughters and 2 little boys who join them for at home preschool. Shaunna
has a Master’s Degree in Early Childhood Education, and she enjoyed teaching kindergarten and first grade for seven years. She can also be found sharing on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/FantasticFunAndLearning), Twitter (http://twitter.com/Shaunna_FFL) @Shaunna_FFL, Pinterest (http://pinterest.com/shaunnaevans/) and Google+ (http://plus.google.com/ b/114184359195382322220/114184359195382322220/posts).

11+ Colorful Craft Ideas for Kids

January 16, 2013 by Rachel 1 Comment

11 fun ways for your kids to play with color

Craft ideas for kids that are full of color is what we are serving up today at Kids Activities Blog. This colorful rainbow of craft ideas will keep kids busy on winter days and decorate your wall with bursts of color. Each of these crafts have been shared on our weekly kids’ meme, It’s Playtime. [...]

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Homemade Christmas Gift: Paint a Shirt

December 21, 2012 by Trisha Leave a Comment

For a sweet homemade Christmas gift that your kids can make, try this fun project. Use fabric paint to paint a shirt with these two methods. Kids Activities Blog loves to share cute ideas like this that lets kids customize items they might already have around the house. Homemade Christmas Gift Supplies shirt {or other [...]

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{Fall Inspired} Tree Craft for Kids

September 26, 2012 by Deirdre 3 Comments

Tree craft ideas are always something that I am searching for each autumn. It just seems like as the leaves fall outside, we need to honor that with something craft. These tree craft ideas use easy stencils. So easy that even a young child can craft along! Tree Craft Ideas This is the season when [...]

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Painting with melted crayons: My Preschooler’s Self-Portrait

September 1, 2012 by Rachel 15 Comments

Our kids love to draw and have literally hundreds and hundreds of crayons over here, many of them mere shards. We’ve melted the crayons to create “new” crayons, but today I had a new “plan” for our leftovers. Several months ago I saw a post by Suzy’s Sitcom where she melted crayons and then painted [...]

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Printmaking: String Art

August 26, 2012 by Trisha 5 Comments

Printmaking Printmaking is a fun activity that can be done a lot of different ways. You can make prints from woodcuttings, carved rubber, styrofoam, and even a painting on plastic. Basically, any raised surface that can be painted or inked may be suitable for printmaking. This printmaking idea is a twist on traditional string art. [...]

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Handprint Art: Owls

August 23, 2012 by Havalyn 2 Comments

Another fun hand print project! The past few months, Rory has been very into birds. She loves all kinds of birds; ducks, flamingos, roosters, eagles, and owls. Owls are one of Rory’s new favorite animals, she has a book called; “Say Hello to the Snowy Animals,” that she loves. One of the pages has [...]

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Monster Trucks: Math and Art

August 18, 2012 by Andie Jaye 3 Comments

Monster trucks are all the rage at our house and have been for quite a while. Recently, my son Bear {4 yrs} and I created a fun new game called Monster Truck Bowling. It was a huge hit! So I expanded on this success with math and messy art activities. Prior to beginning the main [...]

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Playing with Paint: Weekly Activities Round-up

August 8, 2012 by Rachel 1 Comment

Playing with paints is a favorite activity at the Quirky Kid household. Just this afternoon we had our paint pens out creating more colorful clothespins (never have enough of them). Here are some of the recent paint activities that we have enjoyed replicating through the It’s Playtime linky. Each Wednesday afternoon we co-host a linky [...]

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Handprint Art in the Garden

August 2, 2012 by Cathy 2 Comments

When the sun is shining and the children are feeling creative my girls love nothing more than heading out into the garden and creating some big, messy, joyful art. The extra space the garden offers, and the fact that tidying up is that much easier when you can just get out the garden hose to wash [...]

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Paint Craft: Silhouette Art

July 16, 2012 by inspiredbyfamily 2 Comments

Nurturing the seed of creativity in our kids is a beautiful thing! My love for painting and all things art was developed at a very young age and I believe it was because of all of the encouragement I received from my parents and teachers. I still remember in Kindergarten, my teacher praising my work [...]

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Be a Princess: Make Paper Dolls

July 10, 2012 by Rachel

[BlogFrog_px tk="79-O-JY"]We have three girls. A rainy summer day is perfect for creating and pretending. There are few things that my girls love more than pretend play. They get a bin of fancy dresses, silly hats, ostentatious scarves, grab a couple pairs of my high heels and it is their dream day of fun! Recently, [...]

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Cardboard, Paint, and Glue: How to Make a 3D Cat

July 6, 2012 by Amy 3 Comments

My father walked by a store window recently where they were selling a wooden three-dimensional cat (and for quite a bit of money, I might add). He liked the concept of this piece of art and thought that he could replicate it at home as a craft project for his grandson. He drew the following [...]

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Exploring Art and Artists With Kids

May 29, 2012 by Marnie Craycroft 6 Comments

I have been enjoying a series called Kids Get Arty which promotes exploration of great artists. The idea behind the series is simple: 1) choose an artist to explore with your child and 2) allow a piece of work by the particular artist to inspire your child (and you) to create an original piece of [...]

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Finger Paint: Homemade Fun

May 17, 2012 by Havalyn 8 Comments

Finger painting fun! Rory and I had nothing planned today so we decided to make our own finger paint! I chose to make our own paints because I know Rory is getting her molars now and so everything is in her mouth. I did just a basic flour, salt and water mixture so that if [...]

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Easter Chick Hand Prints

March 29, 2012 by Havalyn 5 Comments

We are still getting ready for Easter! As many of you may know, I love making crafts and activities with Rorys hands, feet, and fingerprints. I have all of her crafts in an album and think its neat to see how her hands and feet grow! We thought we could make some Easter Chicks with [...]

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All About Paint: An It’s Playtime Art Round-up

March 28, 2012 by Rachel 4 Comments

It’s another round of It’s Playtime. This week we are doing a round-up of posts relating to paint. There are so many ways your kids can play with and interact with paint! Thanks Adventures at Home for inspiring this post. Last week she had fun marbling paper with shaving cream and dye. The results are [...]

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Things to Paint With: Pine Needles

March 19, 2012 by Kristina 6 Comments

We have some huge pine trees in our backyard that are always dropping tons and tons of pine needles. This week we decided to collect a bunch of them (plus a few pine cones) and make some pine needle paintbrushes. We used the pine needle paintbrushes to create some mini masterpieces on these itty bitty [...]

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Creative Techniques for Craft Creations

March 7, 2012 by Rachel 3 Comments

Every Wednesday afternoon It’s playtime with our weekly Kids Meme. Thanks to all of you who provide inspiration for the rest of us to enjoy. I love browsing all the different ideas of kids activities linked up each week. Recently however, I have been on the look-out for a specific “sort” of craft. Between the [...]

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Somewhere over the rainbow

February 29, 2012 by Rachel 5 Comments

We love all the colors in a rainbow, they bring smiles to our faces. We had numerous colorful posts linked up last week in our weekly kids meme, It’s Playtime. Todays post is inspired by Kate, of Picklebums. She had fun with her kids and droppers full of paint. They had fun creating blotted rainbows [...]

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Primary Colors Wheel: Let’s Make A Color Pie!

February 29, 2012 by Heather 9 Comments

Mixing colors is one of those basic art concepts that children of all ages love. There is great satisfaction in taking two globs of paint and creating your very own, unique shade of a new color! A Color Pie is a fun way to demonstrate mixing primary colors together. Begin with a paper plate split [...]

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Painting Play in the Bathtub

February 24, 2012 by Katey 7 Comments

Over the years of crafting, the Quirky Mommas have painted with crayons, we’ve thrown our paint, even painted our napkins and we’ve learned… Art is at its best when it is Big… Messy… and… Colorful! When you’re a parent, art is at its best when it is Clean… Contained… and… Entertaining for long periods of time! [...]

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Make Napkins – with and for the kids

February 6, 2012 by Rachel 19 Comments

I love homemade napkins, especially ones that are full of character and personality (i.e. the kinds that don’t show stains). Thankfully, I also have kiddos who love art and painting, the bigger the better. With a couple of yards of linen fabric, some elmer’s markers and acrylic paint we were set to decorate. . . [...]

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Color Experiments – An It’s Playtime Round Up

October 6, 2011 by Rachel 4 Comments

Kids love to color, love mixing the colors, love exploring with color – the brighter the better. Here are a few of my favorite color experiments that were linked up during last week’s It’s Playtime. Many thanks to my co-hosts for making this a great kid’s meme! Be sure to check out their blogs to [...]

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Pillowcase Skirts – a Slumber Party Activity

August 8, 2011 by Rachel 21 Comments

We love to wear dresses, the more color they have and the more they “flounce” the better they are. A few weeks ago Elmer’s sponsored a craft camp – my kids had a blast making some giant fabric wall letters, and we had so many leftover supplies we dug the box out again the next [...]

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Ice Activities for Kids

July 27, 2011 by Rachel 10 Comments

Ice is a necessary outdoor play ingredient in Texas summers. Temps haven’t dipped below 100 this week. Ice Play Solid frozen water is my preschooler’s friend. They can drop cubes, watch ice melt on their chalk drawings, chomp on cubes, throw them down their shirts. Pretend cook, stirring icy slivers. Here are several ways that [...]

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Preschoolers Painting Masterpieces with Painters Tape

May 16, 2011 by Rachel 10 Comments

Do you remember our post with painters tape and stripes? We went through a painting kick for several weeks… my hubby had a large strip (about a foot wide and 8 feet long) of painted plywood 1/4th an inch thick. He saw trash, I saw fun! We chopped it into 5 different pieces and the [...]

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Pendulum Painting: Fun Ideas with Cardboard Boxes

May 5, 2011 by Rachel 18 Comments

Cardboard Boxes – There are so many fun things that my preschoolers and I can do with them! They among my kids favorite “toys”. Rachele from Tinkerlab, in honor of her 1-year blogging birthday, is having a round-up of activities you can do with cardboard boxes. Fun! We had fun “throwing paint” onto our box [...]

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Fizzing Sidewalk Paint

April 20, 2011 by Rachel 80 Comments

Sidewalk chalk is fun, painting is fun, making things fizz is also fun! Let’s do all three! This is a really simple recipe to create sidewalk chalk “paint” out of food coloring, baking soda and cornstarch. We have made the standard sidewalk chalk paint before, but this recipe is better – it fizzes when you [...]

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DIY Pretend Cookware Storage and Stove

February 22, 2011 by Rachel 29 Comments

Last week’s post was on how to create your own felt pretend food, but once you have the food you need a place to store it, along with all the other pretend kitchen accessories. We no longer have a pretend play kitchen, it was taking up too much space and it has found a new [...]

Filed Under: Crafts for Kids, Family Management, Fun Kids Activities, Kids and Food, Learning Together