Kids' Art Activities and Arts and Crafts at Home

Spend quality time with kids making art at home.

Creating art at home with your kids using arts and crafts activities is a great way to spend quality time with your children, while watching them create and use their imaginations. There are a variety of arts and crafts activities that you can do in your home to make adorable crafts and even décor to put up around the house.

Family Memories Art

Create a family collage that everyone at home will be able to enjoy. Supply your kids with a large poster board, stickers, glitter, markers and paints, along with copies of beloved family photos. Another idea is to get a scrapbook and let kids document and decorate family memories in it. This is a good art activity following holiday celebrations or big family events, as kids can add to the book for years.

Homemade Decor

Let kids add their own personal touch to home decor with an art activity that incorporates colors that match decor. For example, you could purchase plain vases, frames, canvases or tiles at a craft store and select colors of acrylic paints that match the decor of a room in your home. Let children paint pieces with the colors you select however they like and you easily have homemade art pieces that will fit in your home beautifully.

Art From The Recycling Bin

Instead of recycling objects in your home like milk cartons, old newspapers, coffee cans or plastic bottles, use these for art projects to recycle into pretty pieces. For example, you could turn coffee cans into festive plant holders with some acrylic paint. Make soda cans into pencil holders by cutting off the top, apply masking tape over the sharp rim and painting them. Plastic bottles can be painted to work as pretty vases. Old newspapers can be saved for paper mache projects. Use your imagination to turn everyday recyclables into art with kids.

Large Scale Art At Home

For a large scale art project that works great, let your child have at it on an entire wall in their room. They can paint whatever their imagination conceives and add to it as time goes on. This is also a good art project for a family room and you can get the whole family together to plan a mural for the wall, or let everyone add their own designs to display artwork the whole family can be proud of.

References

• Go Green Street: {Eco Crafts} Recycled Can Flower Pot
• Family Fun: Make A Scrapbook