By Spramani Elaun
Painting Kids Activities & Tips
Painting is a magical experience for kids.
Kids are natural painters and can easily jump right into painting activities with the right guidance.
Painting is excellent fine motor practice and spatial-visual learning, and is a multi-sensory stimulating activity.
I’ve taught over 200,000 children painting lessons over the past twenty years.
In this blog I’m sharing activity ideas, tips along with a directory of different painting sources.
If you would like to learn more about helping young children to paint, then I invite you to purchase my book – Kids Painting.
Kids Paints
There are many paint options on the market. Listed here are the best kids paint mediums for art making.
- Finger Paint
- Tempera Paint
- Acrylic
- Watercolor
- Dry Watercolor Cakes
- Gouache
- Dry Gouache Cakes
- Craft Paints
- Natural Paint
- Face Paint
- Watercolor Crayons
- Watercolor pencils
What should kids paint?
Truly the sky is the limit when it comes to painting ideas for kids.
There are many different objects that can be painted on.
Traditional painting lessons are taught on stretch canvases, but this can get costly when young kids are beginning.
I’ve come up with time-tested, low-cost surfaces to teach beginner painting skills.
Here is a list of fun items kids can paint:
- Watercolor paper
- Handcrafted paper
- Paper Mache projects
- Sticks
- Branches
- Wood Crafts
- Wood Scraps
- Butcher Block Paper
- Large to small cardboard boxes
- Canvas
- Toilet Paper Rolls
- Egg cartons
- Od CD’s
- Large Seedpods
- Pinecones
- Tee Shirts
Kids Painting – Teach young kids how to paint, materials & set-up guide.
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