Easy One Day Art Projects
When you are entertaining children on a rainy day or you would like to foster some creativity in your children, choose a fun and fast art project that can be completed in one day. A short art project allows young children to have a sense of gratification as they can see the project develop, and it also allows the children to see the results of their work within a few hours.
Other People Are Reading
-
Collage
-
Gather a set of old magazines or comics and put out some glue and scissors. Choose a theme for the collage, like the future, a child's personality or his likes and dislikes. Allow the children to go through the magazines and cut out figures representing the theme. Then they can arrange the pictures on a piece of paper or on some sturdy tagboard or light cardboard and glue them down. Tell the children to cover the background as much as possible, covering up every bit of white space.
Bubble Wrap Prints
-
Secure a few pieces of bubble wrap, along with some acrylic paint, a paint brush and some paper plates. Pour a few puddles of acrylic paint in different colors onto the paper plates and allow the children to paint the bubble side of the bubble wrap with different colors. Encourage them to use several different colors on each piece of bubble wrap. Then, while the paint is still wet, have them press the bubble side down on large pieces of paper, creating an impression of bubbles on the paper itself.
-
Bean Mosaic
-
Gather a number of different kinds of dried beans, including kidney beans, dried lentils, black beans and peas. Have the children make a simple drawing on a small sheet of thick tagboard or cardboard and then have them fill in the outlines with beans glued to the design. Show them how the different colors of the beans allow them to create designs and patterns. Mount the bean mosaics on wires afterward so that they can be displayed.
Pinch Pots and Coil Pots
-
Give each child a small piece of air-dry clay or polymer clay. Show them how to make small pots, either by pinching a small piece of clay around the sides until the walls stand up or by creating a bottom from a flattened circle and coiling a long roll of clay around the edge for the walls. Then the clay can be left to dry or it can be baked in the oven. After the clay is dry, it can be painted or left as is.
-
References
Resources
- Photo Credit drawing at home image by Renata Osinska from Fotolia.com
