Crafts: Watercolors
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Giant Watercolor Lollipop Costume Prop Or Party Centerpiece
Need a giant lollipop for a costume or maybe a whole bunch to use as centerpieces for a birthday party or even a bat mitzvah? I just made this one for my daughter to use as a prop in a play that was part of her graduation from 8th grade ceremony, and it looks even…
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Simple Mediterranean Harvest Watercolor Paintings For All Ages
With all the pumpkin crafts and fall harvest related themes floating around the web right now (and of course posted on Craft Schooling Sunday), I thought I’d share some Mediterranean harvest watercolor paintings as an alternative to all the orange pumpkins and colored fall leaves crafts which only really apply to a relatively small portion…
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Paint A Fun Watercolor Chameleon Wall Hanging For Your Child’s Room!
After we painted watercolor strawberries and watercolor apples and pomegranates, I am still loving the idea of using watercolors in so many fun ways, so I thought I’d paint something fun for my twelve year old son’s room, as he just got his own room for the first time ever! Now that I’ve made this…
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Watercolor Apples In Rainbow Colors For Rosh HaShana Cards!
Once you start painting with watercolors, it is hard to stop, so I thought I’d practice trying to paint loosely with this idea for a sweet card for Rosh HaShana — tiny watercolors in rainbow colors do look cute, and you certainly don’t have to be perfect, in fact the less perfect the better, I’m…
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Watercolor Fruit Portraits Are So Much Fun To Paint!
Isn’t this watercolor strawberry portrait just the greatest? While I though at the time that she wasn’t really putting her mind to this little painting session, in the end her unstudied strawberry turned out to be the best of all. Isn’t it great when your kids out do you? You’ll Need: watercolor paper watercolors, palette…
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Doodle With Water Colors And Make Some Gorgeous Gift Wrap!
As promised, here is at least one great idea for using those sheets of water color patterns you and/or the kids have created — watercolor gift wrap! I grabbed a sheet that I had painted to quickly wrap a little handmade gift, and just fell in love with the results! I didn’t really have time…
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Cold Winter Day Crafting Idea: Get Out The Watercolors!
What should you do when the kids are home for the second snow day in a row and there is no snow? Television and video games are not an option around here, so we’ll just have to get crafting! (But you knew that of course.) And one of the simplest things to do that almost…
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Watercolor Dreidel Craft For Hanukkah Is So Much Fun!
My kids had a great time painting these simply lovely watercolor dreidels last night, and the results are fantastic! We’ll use our watercolor dreidels to make a hanukkah garland, a simple mobile or as elements in an as of yet undetermined hanukkah craft. I really don’t think one can possibly make too many of these,…
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Watercolor Flower Paintings And A Happy Birthday To Bubby!
To honor my dear mother on her birthday, and at least post a photo of a birthday card that was made on time, my daughter and I sat down for a little introduction to painting backgrounds with water color. And we quickly realized that painting with water colors to produce those lovely etherial paintings that…
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Watercolor Circle Paintings Are So Much Fun, Even For Mom!
Watercolor circle paintings are a great way to teach kids about the beauty of abstract art, the idea of juxtaposition of color, and are at the very least a great exercise in learning how to control a paint brush! I saw this project a while back on small for big, and it was the perfect…
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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…
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Hanukkah Kid’s Craft: Watercolor Collage
Isn’t this Hanukkah watercolor collage just gorgeous? A perfect example of a really creative Hanukkah kid’s craft that the whole family can do together! Today, on one of the busiest days of the year when I hadn’t yet photographed anything to share with you, it arrived in my inbox from a wonderful reader from the…