Spring is the perfect time to get messy! Check out these fun and easy painting ideas for kids that they can try out. Playing and creating art is an important way for kids to express themselves. In this blog, we’ll cover some of the most fun and easy painting ideas for children of all different ages!
Fun Spring Painting Ideas for Kids art
Spring is a great time to explore the outdoors with kids. Alongside the melting snow and blooming flowers, you can plant flowers in a garden or head to the local park for a picnic and some frisbee. You can also try painting outside with easels and plenty of sunny spots. Start with simple shadows cast on white paper against brightly colored backgrounds like pink or yellow. As your skills progress, add an illustration of some members of the animal kingdom such as butterflies, dragonflies, moths, caterpillars, beetles, and many more!
Kids have a lot of fun doing art projects, but at some point they need another project to keep them busy.
This is where painting comes in! With all of the different colors of paint, there are many different ways you can inspire your child to paint. Try teaching them to create popular paintings, like Van Gogh’s Starry Night or Wassily Kandinsky’s Carnation. Have them make some “Me” paintings by adding details that personalized the painting and they will love it. Another possibility is to mix two different sets of paints together to create new beautiful colors-see what happens when you put yellow paint with turquoise paint!
Pretty soon your little artists will want a doodle pad for their room so that everytime you go home from school/work, you get a reminder about how much someone loves you as well as serve as a place to document our family memories and make artistic progressions over time!
Directions to Fun Painting Techniques
Kids might have fun using a “shopping cart” technique with their paints to create color and patterns. Start by filling a paper plate with fourths of primary colors-red, green, blue, yellow. Place the child’s hand over the paper plate, palm down. Use fingers to scoop up colorful paint and press top of hand onto surface of painting as a finger flips open to release. This will make mosaic designs on the surface. Try swirling bottom of one cup across the paper plate to release different amounts of paint to create lighter or darker tones in less time! For more color variations, try having toddlers use two hands at once.
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Instructions for making a painting:
1) Fill a container with water.
2) Add small pieces of sponge, torn into small pieces, to the water. The more sponge you add, the softer your paint will be.
3) Dip a paintbrush in the spongy mixture and use it to paint on your paper.
Kid Approved Paintings
The three paintings on this list are fun and easy to recreate with kids. Each painting uses common things found at home such as boxes, milk cartons, and paper plates. Milk Jug Painting is really colorful for kids to look at when they do the painting. Cupcake Painting relies on bright colors and eye-catching designs to engage children. The Glitter Bomb Painting has a special twist by creating an explosion of color with chalkboard crunchies scattered over the canvas instead of paint!
Kids will love these fun paintings to paint this spring. The idea is to use the brushstrokes from objects commonly found in nature like sand, rocks, leaves, snowflakes and more. Crumbling up an aluminum can into small pieces and sprinkling it on your painting is another way to paint with texture that isn’t just one solid color.
Each spring, I like to take the opportunity to get young children involved with painting. When they don’t have the ability or dexterity required to paint on a wall or canvas, it’s sometimes easier to let them ‘paint’ on newspaper or paper with paint and water. This year, I’m planning to let my son use some of these drawings as actual decorations for our house or holiday plates.
Coloring Pages
An activity that I adore from my childhood is coloring-in pages. I still have every page I was ever given or even had a hand in designing for myself! Nowadays there are so many activities to do with your children, but too often they involve a screen. Even the name “coloring” makes it sound like it’s too old school and should be replaced by something digitalized. Coloring has become the go-to activity to calm down kids having a tantrum, sort out a complication in the family, or just as an art therapy tool. It’s inexpensive, packs small, and can transported around if need be in case of emergency evacuation plans. If you want your child’s drawing to shine but don’t want them to know how to use markers or sharpies just yet then try some paint brushes and food colors!
Tips for Working With Paint on a Warm Day
Painting outside can be fun, but there are some things to think about. It’s best to do this on a cool day when the weather is 65 degrees or under, experts say. Painting outside can generate a lot of heat, making you uncomfortable and even drying out the paint so it clogs up brushes or spills too fast for painting for pieces of art just for kids!
Painting during the spring can be tricky. You’ll have to work with and hide a lot of visible brush strokes on your canvas. To make sure you don’t stress yourself out on a warm day, do your best to paint over a cool and shady area where there’s a breeze. It will also help if you’ve got some fun music playing in the background too!
Goals
For kids, the only goal is to have fun. Goals art for kids will help them be creative and hone their fine motor skills. They should scoot around as they color, rather than sitting still at a desk. Goals board may contain prompts like “a flower” or “a rainbow” so that students can choose what they want to create. It is also a good idea to give three options so that there is no wrong answer. Add humor by having two of the options look similar but one be painted with exactly the opposite colors!
Spring Paintings for Kids
Spring is a great time to get your kids excited about painting. These fun seasonal paintings can be done with just few materials, and don’t require any special skills. Any toddler will love these digital art projects, and you can find the perfect one for their age in the link.
It’s that time of year again where it’s getting a lot warmer and all your friends are probably doing warm up exercises outside. Of course you want to draw a cool painting for your friends but what should you paint about? Well if you get a chance to take a walk outside or look out the window chances are its already starting to get drizzly outside. It might be March with temperatures above 60 degrees in some places and this is spring time where the flowers are starting to grow because the sun is finally shining!
Conclusion
If you’re looking for a fun and creative way to spend the day outside, there is no better idea than having you and the kids paint together. Painting with the kids is not only entertaining, but it will also strengthen your bond with them. Read on for some wonderful painting ideas that are perfect for springtime.
The original intention behind this post was to share some ideas for creative spring art projects. We hope you found a project that sparks your interest and possibly invigorates you to get outside for the warmer season. Take care and we’ll see you again soon!
