Art activities are a fun way to spend time with your kids, not only it’s enjoyable, but it also helps develop children’s mental, social, and emotional aspects. But we as an adult sometimes struggle to make creative projects with children. What you need to know is you don’t need to consider yourself crafty to male arts and be creative with your children. There are loads of craft projects that you can do with them that don’t require any special skills or tools and wouldn’t take a lot of your time. Whether you’re in the mood for process art, arts integration projects, or recycled art, there’s something here for everyone.
Homemade Glow Bubbles
Have spare highlighters? If you want to spice up playing with bubbles, you can add ink from your highlighter to some bubble solution and it will glow under a blacklight. Be ready for some glow-in-the-dark fun.
Diamond Painting
You can ease stress and calm your mind with diamond painting, this new trending art is a combination of cross stitch and paint by number. If you like shiny and colorful things you can get diamond painting kits at vizuarts.com. Not only it will improve you and your kids’ focus, but it will also be a great artwork you can display at home. After placing your last diamond it will create a spectacular, mosaic diamond artwork that sparkles and shine.
Tissue Box Holders
If you have a lot of empty tissue boxes lying around your house or even the filled one, you can design and paint it with flowers or any design you’d like. Another option is putting googly eyes to make it look like a monster spitting up tissue. When you’re done, you can also turn it into a shooting game on how many balls of paper you can toss into the monster mouth. It’s an efficient way to dispose and recycle boxes and also a fun bonding time for you and your kids.
Jellyfish And Space Lamps
Styro, paper plates, yarn, and newspapers are the only things you need. You can do an aquarium theme or a 3D Solar System. If you use glow-in-the-dark acrylic paint, you can even see their “bioluminescence” in action when you turn out the lights.
Paper Bead Accessories
Do you have a lot of fashion magazines lying around? Or even leftover craft paper. You can recycle it and it will look super fantastic when rolled into beads. You can make it into colorful bracelets, necklaces or if you have lots of time on your hand, you can also do a curtain with it. Not to worry if you don’t have magazines, you can try it with wrapping paper, newsprint, or any paper lying around so you can do it without going to the store and spending money.
Spending time, and being creative with your children is something you should be passionate about. There are lots of benefits that children can reap when they are introduced into art and being in an amazingly creative household. So take this time off to make an initiative to expose art activities and crafting. It will also create a unique bonding experience, which will create lifeline memories you will treasure. I hope you will use this amazing list of art activities for you and your kids to enjoy and grow their art abilities beyond their imagination.
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