Paint, Cars, Ramp. YES! Forget the link - this is awesome!

Make new crayons out of old ones using the sun's energy!

Still Playing School: Funnel Painting Process Art for Kids

Paint with toy trucks and explore colors . Great for a transportation theme in preschool or a rainy summer day.

We kicked off Art Play Group last Friday with a bang. It is so fantastic to see all these new faces along with our play group veterans. It’s amazing how much they’ve grown in just a few months! I just love watching these kids explore, create and get messy! Last season I found this great […]

A few weeks ago I shared a Kids Window Art activity we did that involved the use of watered down tempera paint. I had some of that paint leftover and I am pretty frugal so I wanted to find another use for it. Since it was very runny, I thought it would be fun to pour and splatter it. I thought about doing this on an easel (which would yield similar results) but decided to use our slide to watch our paint drip. Painting on a slide is a great way for kids to explore the effect of gravity on…

Make some gorgeous rainbow paints for outdoor creativity using this easy glitter sidewalk paint recipe! Fun summer activity for kids and washes off easily!

My buddies have been enjoying our outdoor canvas painting. We've used a variety of materials on it already and we tried a new one today. I diluted the paint and poured it into a spray bottle. This was a lot of fun and quite messy, but since we were outside, the mess wasn't a problem. Squeezing triggers on spray bottles is a great way to build hand strength. Since hand strength is needed for printing and cutting skills, it's important to help children strengthen their hand muscles. Some of my…

Save this recipe for a cool twist on classic sidewalk chalk that kids will love!

One of the many things I love about summer is the ability to bring our art activities outdoors. One of the many things I love about this post is giving you the opportunity to win big money! Make sure you read to the end of the post to get the details for the giveaway. You don't want to miss any of the many creative art ideas I'm sharing with you today, either. My buddies and I seem to be even more creative when we get outside. There's less worry about mess and we have the freedom to really…

This activity came about as a result of another activity that left me with some leftover paint. Not a whole lot, but I do hate to waste materials. We were heading outdoors to play, so I threw the paints & some brushes into a caddy and grabbed an empty foamy soap dispenser and refilled it. I use about a tablespoon of palmolive dish detergent and then s-l-o-w-l-y fill the dispenser with warm water. If you fill it too fast it's going to foam up before you get enough water in and you'll have to…

painting with fly swatters

I was the very happy recipient of some super cool squeeze bottles. They were made to look like crayons and once held kid's bubble bath. After removing the labels (you know how to do that, right? No? I'll blog about that later.) Sooooo....I removed the labels and then I made up some squeezable paint. I used a very simple recipe of equal parts flour, salt, water and food colouring. And there was just a little bit of bubble bath in the bottom of the bottle. Here's the link to the recipe I used…

I almost forgot to share with you our colorful sprinkle paint pictures we made a few weeks ago. So let me get you caught up on this super cool process... First of all, you should know that we sprinkle painted in