5 Superb Canvas Painting Ideas for Kids

 Everyone has created their own painting masterpiece when they were kids. Be it using crayons or watercolors, everybody during their childhood days has tried their hands in painting. Yes, painting is a way for kids to convey their thoughts, express their emotions, use their senses, explore colors, processes, and outcomes. Likewise, canvas painting for kids is absolutely important as a learning engagement that organically trains them to express themselves in various ways. According to the Preschool experts, you can easily mix and match a few other creative ideas and tips with canvas painting and make it a hybrid art form altogether.

5 Creative Canvas Painting Ideas for Children:

You can easily try these ideas with your little ones at home.

1.      Canvas Filled with an Array of Buttons:

Here you can use the canvas as more of a whiteboard where the buttons become the color. Put together a wide variety of buttons in different colors, shapes, and sizes and let the little artist stick them onto the canvas. They can make outlines using the buttons and fill in space, or draw an outline first and then use the buttons to fill them up.

2.      Soft Pompom Balls on the Hard Canvas:

Pompoms are soft colorful cotton balls that are widely available in any craft store and San Dimas, CA preschools, kids love working with these balls. Encourage them to draw scenery, in which they can use white pompoms to build the clouds over the mountains, or green pompoms to make the tree crown. In fact, they can draw a flower bouquet and let the red, yellow, or pink pompoms be the roses in that. Encourage them to be creative and use more pompoms in their painting to create a variety of designs.

3.      Sticky Paper Sticking on a Canvas:

If you think buttons and pompoms are a bit restrictive in terms of shape, you can try using the colored sticky papers that have a layer of glue behind them. If you do not want to buy sticky papers then let your kids tear colorful papers into various shapes and using some glue they can stick it on the canvas to create some abstract art.

4.      Modern Art using Melted Crayons:

In Montessori, kids do this activity under their teacher’s supervision. You can lay down paper under the canvas to keep the area clean. Stick some wax crayons on the top of the canvas in an arrangement of your choice. Then use a hairdryer to blow hot air on the crayons and watch them slowly melting. By altering the hot air on different crayons, these can melt down to create an absolutely stunning pattern.

5.      Bringing Real Life onto the Canvas:

If your kids love nature, they can easily bring that onto their canvas and create a great art piece out of it. Ask your kids to collect various items from their backyard garden like leaves, flowers, dead butterflies, dragonflies, etc. Once they get dried and flat, ask the little one to stick them to the canvas in a style that can be reminiscent of the olden times.

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