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Create amazing and colorful dot paintings inspired by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. Project & post by Catalina Gutierrez of Redviolet Studio.

Here are the best of the Artful Parent's watercolor projects. These ideas are fun and easy and include salty watercolors, watercolor resist methods, and printing. Watercolor Paints for Kids As for the watercolor paints themselves, we primarily use liquid watercolors (which we love, love, love) and watercolor paint palettes. But we also use a few other versions of watercolors including homemade! Liquid watercolor paints Paints palettes of dried watercolor paint Watercolor crayons Watercolor…

Squeeze glue, layer materials, and make collage art with these fun activities for kids. A wonderful medium to explore with toddlers on up!

Process art vs. product art in early childhood education: Discover the role of each approach and explore photo examples.

8 collaborative art projects for kids and parents to do together. All these activities are easy to prepare and don't need special supplies. Click through to get inspired. It's time to get creative!

Learn how to paint space with acrylics in a way that even children can accomplish! This technique works for creating beautiful abstract wall art and decorative craft projects.

My daughter and I love the famous artists. We also love playing around with different paint techniques. We combined the two for these Monet inspired landscape sponge paintings. The sponge created a wonderful backdrop for these impressionist style paintings. We chose Monet’s Water Lilies and Bridge Over a Pond of Water Lilies as our inspiration. […]

Stunning Spring art projects for kids that are colourful and open-ended enough to inspire creativity and expression in any child!

I’m stuck. I want to write and paint and craft and share my ideas with the world – but I’m just not doing it. I want to say I’m just bursting with creative concepts, but I’m not. It’s more li…

Learn 8 essential strategies for helping a child deal with anger and why research shows them to be effective throughout life, from a child therapist.