Crafts: Painting and Drawing

  • Encouraging Kids To Create Using A Variety Of Materials

    We are in the middle of celebrating our 7 day Passover holiday, but wanted to drop by with some food for thought! I love these welcome signs that my eight year old confidently painted, with simple paints, for a recent visitor, and I started thinking about the idea of encouraging kids to create with a…

  • Kid’s Craft For Passover: Fun Pop Art Inspired Signs From Recycled Boxes!

    Translation of Hebrew: Floor Shampoo (top) Cleaned For Passover (bottom) Pop art inspired signs made from kid friendly gouche and corrugated cardboard are the perfect Passover craft to keep the kids busy right about now! Kids love making signs, which are especially useful during the process of getting the house ready for Passover, as they…

  • Crayon and Wax Candle Resist Paintings

    Last week in my CRAFTING A FUTURE class for first and second grade girls, I introduced them to the idea of water color resist painting, using white wax candles, about the size of a thick crayons together with crayons, and of course water colors. The results are festive and sweet, just like this group of…

  • Make A Mini Purim Costumes Clothesline!

      Yesterday’s craft project at Crafting A Future, (which I did with about 20 kids total) to make a mini Purim costumes clothesline was a great success! I’m so happy to share with you some of the results, and am enjoying looking at the one that my eight year old made, now hanging in our…

  • Painting With Potatoes, Bottlecaps, Sponges & Q-tips

    Painting created by a 1st grader, wth a rectangular dense sponge, wine corks, and Q-tips! And no direction from the teacher whatsoever. Yesterday I started the first of what I hope will be many afternoons spent with an adorable and vivacious group of !st and 2nd graders for some art and craft lessons, for my…

  • Doodle Wrapping Paper Craft For Chanukah…For The Whole Family!

    Get started with chanukah crafting by spending a little time making doodle wrapping paper! Last week I shared with you my idea for some all purpose doodled message wrapping paper, though truthfully that was an after thought after I created this DIY chanukah wrapping paper craft with my kids. You see we have a ton…

  • Drawing Crafts For Kids: Recycled Cardboard Flowers

    Helping kids develop their drawing skills through crafting (rather than just drawing on a piece of paper) makes the whole endeavor so much more interesting, and hopefully more attractive to the child whose drawing skills could use a little attention! With just a few simple ideas up your sleeve, you can spend a little pocket…

  • Get Out The Paints Mommy!

    I have to confess — I have not been encouraging my kids to paint nearly enough, and I am now in the process of rectifying that lack by getting out the paints and including painting in more projects. Are you with me? Forget about all the mess, we’ve got to do it! And who knows,…

  • Helping Kids Use Their Brains—A Little Lesson In Parental Involvement

    What is this you may ask? Well if you read Hebrew, then you will understand that this was a little exercise my ten year old daughter was asked to do as part of a low pressure art competition of sorts to kick off a new learning unit called “Moach Mavrik”, namely sharp minds. Wondering myself…

  • Watercolor Painting With Pencil Drawing

    Isn’t this little watercolor painting sweet, and so perfect for summer? Truthfully my daughter painted this over a year ago, and we just came upon it, which is perfect timing, as I really didn’t have anything to share with you today! Watercolors are a great medium for all ages, and kids can produce nice works…

  • More Dimensional Drawing With Lines!

    Yesterday I realized that the technique we used to make the three-dimensional hand drawings, here, could most certainly be used for a variety of shapes, right? This technique is great for satisfying that desire to doodle, since you can draw something just about any size and on any little scrap of paper that happens to…

  • Drawing Exercise: How To Draw A Hand With Dimension

    Here’s a fun drawing exercise that’s great to have under your hat (or up you sleeve) when the kids are in need of an activity, and you’re in need of an activity that doesn’t require fancy supplies or make a mess! I saw this idea a while back on Craft Schooling Sunday (will provide the…