Recycled Cardboard Tube Easter Painting Art Project for Kids

Create a fun Easter painting art project for kids with recycled cardboard tubes! This art project is for kids of all ages and can be done at home or in the classroom. With a few simple materials and a quick set-up, get creative and celebrate Easter with this painting.

Finished Easter Painting with Recycled Cardboard Tube - kidsactivitiesblog.com — Get excited for easter and make this fun painting!

Using Recycled Cardboard Tubes to make a cute Easter painting

Using recycled cardboard tubes, this Easter painting art project for kids is simple, fun, and easy. It only takes a few minutes to set up! All you will need is some paint, scissors, cardboard tubes, and a canvas or paper to paint on.

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Making this art project will encourage your children to get creative and find a way to create a fun design using the shapes of cardboard tubes. You can create bunnies, eggs, chicks, flowers, tulips, and many other spring shapes using recycled cardboard tubes!

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Supplies Needed for this easter Art Project for Kids

Supplies needed for easter painting art project for kids. Image of canvas, cardboard tubes, paper bowls, scissors, and yellow, red, blue, and white paint. — This is what you will need to make this easter art project for kids

Cardboard tubes: Check your recycling bin!
Scissors
Acrylic Paint
Paper Plates or Bowls
A canvas (Paper also will work!)

Steps to make this Easter Painting art

Steps to make Easter painting art project for kids using recycled cardboard tubes: Step 1, mix paint. Image of 5 bowls of pastel paint. Step 2, cut and bend cardboard tubes. Image of scissors and 4 cardboard tubes, bent into different shapes. Step 3, stamp on a design. Image of canvas with bowls of paint around it and cardboard tubes stamping on the canvas to make a flower shape. Step 4, add details. Image of painting with details added like eyes and nose for a bunny, and dots in the center of the flower.

Mix paint: If needed, mix your paint to get the desired colors for this painting. (Look below for ratios to mix paint for pastel colors!)
Cut and bend cardboard tubes: Cut the tubes into smaller sizes then bend them into different shapes to create circles, eggs, hearts, 1 and 2-pointed sides, or any other shapes you would like to try.
Stamp on a design: Using the cardboard tubes as stamps, create a design or pattern.
Add details: Use your fingers, a paintbrush, or a Q-tip to add some details to your art.

Ratios to mix paint for Pastel colors

Baby pink: 3 white, 1 red
Sky blue: 3 white, 1 blue
Bright yellow: 2 white, 1 yellow
Lavender: 4 white, 2 red, 1 blue
Mint green: 3 white, 2 yellow, 1 blue

Our Experience creating this Easter Painting art project

Finished Easter painting art project for kids using recycled cardboard tubes - kidsactivities.com — this is Our finished Easter painting!

Making this art project was really enjoyable! It only took me a few short minutes to set up this craft and I only used two toilet paper rolls so I saved the paper towel rolls for another craft. My favorite part of this craft was stamping the cardboard tubes on the canvas and seeing all the shapes come together to make this fun Easter painting art.