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Slimy, Stretchy Goo is one of the most popular concoctions for kids today. This will provide hours of fun for our kids and a great idea for a birthday party favor.
This is a great window paint recipe. When you are ready to add a little decoration to your house or car windows you can use this great window paint recipe. Now you are ready for those football...
This paint "puffs" on it's own as it dries!! This unique and fun painting technique has many great qualities. Since you will be using a squeeze bottle to paint, it is a very neat form...
If your kids like to paint, they are going to love this recipe for homemade fat paint! Fat paint is sort of like puff paint except it does not puff up. It just comes out thick. When it dries, the...
All kids like sidewalk chalk. I know mine do. Heck, I like sidewalk chalk. Here is a very easy way to make it. It is simple enough that kids can do it too!!!
Egg tempera paint dries quickly to a matte finish. It doesn't fade over time and is water resistant and permanent. Make your own tempera paints instead of purchasing them at expensive art or...
Making sidewalk chalk is a fun craft that you can do with your kids. The kids have fun making the sidewalk chalk and using the sidewalk chalk and you get to save money by helping them make their...
Make your driveway a canvas for your children. Using tempera paint and plaster create homemade sidewalk chalk for your kids. They can pick the colors the want and help make the chalk. When it's...
Children love using their hands to make things, and what better use of their hands than to make crafts? Here are three great craft ideas that have one thing in common – they all require the use of...
Toddlers love to make a mess. Can you think of a mess more fun than spray paint? You can easily make your own spray paint that is suitable for children and toddlers. All you need is a nice day...
Making an 8 sided dice for a board game or role playing game is a very simple process. Basically, it requires making an octahedron shape, which has 8 faces. Rather than buy pre-made 8 sided dice...
Summer is a great time of year to be a kid. With this home made sidewalk chalk your little ones can turn your driveway or walkway into a colorful masterpiece. The best part of all is when your...
Using dry tempera paint and the natural beauty of raindrops, you can create beautiful and unique paintings.
Whether it is spring, summer or fall, leaves are hanging from our trees or covering our yards. Making newspaper leaf prints allows your children to see these leaves from a new perspective. This...
If you have kids, they probably get invited to lots of birthday parties, which means lots of presents need to be wrapped. Engage them in the process by coming up with creative, alternative ways to...
If you want to create a unique home decor, you can paint custom pictures and designs on rocks. It's not only a way to get the whole family involved in a craft project, but also makes rocks more...
There is no need to go out and buy poster paints when you can make your own at home. Mix up any color you choose, and only pay half the cost that you would pay at the store. The following recipe...
With this craft activity, children can create unique, fun, squiggly worm paintings by using noodles or "worms" to paint with. This is a sensory activity in which children explore their senses,...
Every kindergarten finger-painter, high school cheerleader and pep squad member is familiar with tempera paint. One of the oldest types of paint, it was originally a pigment paint thickened with...
This powdered milk paint recipe makes a great paint for kids' crafts. It's inexpensive to make and you can make tons of colors. It dries fairly quickly and leaves a glossy opaque finish. The...
A unique way to personalize your Easter celebration is to include a craft onto which everyone in your family can put his mark. Fingerprint Easter eggs decorated with the colorful thumb prints of...
Black and white photos can be very dramatic, but by highlighting certain features of a photo (a la the movie "Sin City") you can create an even more striking effect. Read on to learn how to paint...
Tempera batik art is a great craft project for kids at least first grade or older. It will help them to explore the use of color and to develop some basic painting skills. The result is a painting...
Egg tempera paints offer modern painters a traditional way to paint. Make your own egg tempera paints if you want to make permanent paint that is semi-transparent. Use this method for making egg...
Instead of buying a birthday card at the grocery store, let your child express herself by making macaroni cards for her friends. Don't feel that you have to limit yourself to macaroni. Any pasta...
Acrylic or tempera paints work well for a diorama background. Learn how to paint a diorama background in this free crafts video.
A bubble print is an inexpensive way for very young students to explore color and texture. They create an attractive abstract art project which they will be proud to take home. It can also be used...
If you have ever blown bubbles on a summer day, you know how fleeting those beautiful bubbles can be. They float along, iridescently beautiful for a few seconds and then they pop. When you make...
Gesso means chalk in Italian and refers to the gypsum-based plaster surface to which fresco paint is applied. Gesso refers to an ancient process of painting which involves the application of a...
Have you ever wanted to try oil paining but didn't want to deal with the mess and hassle of oil paints? These fun paints that you can make yourself have the feel of oil paint, but they have the...
Make your own paint like Michelangelo. Works well on thick paper and plaster. You will get that unique Renaissance effect.
Popcorn is a healthy snack that is high in fiber and low in fat. Served hot and sprinkled with herbs and spices, it makes a delicious, spicy treat without all of the preservatives that are found...
This is a fun and easy activity that you can share even with very young children. Kids of all ages love to paint, and they'll be thrilled to be making their very own T-shirts. This is also a great...
Salt maps are topographical maps made using a salt dough. They look great and can make for an interesting map project. The best thing about is that they are easy and fun to make, and the materials...
No type of fake blood is 100-percent stain proof. Even those made from gentle formulas may leave a mark on delicate fabrics and you shouldn't wear anything with fake blood that you don't want to...
Beginning artists may find the many choices of paint available a bit confusing. All provide an excellent medium, and with a little knowledge, you can make the correct choice for your project. You...
Colored sand is a popular medium for arts-and-crafts projects. It's often used to create bottle art, in which layers of colored sand fill a decorative bottle. It can also be used in the same...
Children love to paint and decorate just about anything, but your kids will be thrilled to pieces by painting their own shirts. You can engage children even as young as preschool age with this...
Use a tempera paint or an acrylic for painting the dragonfly's body. Learn how to make a paper dragonfly in this free crafts video.
Types of paint include acrylics, oils, watercolor and tempera. Discover different paint varieties with tips from an artist in this free video on painting.
Dungeons and Dragons dice can be made with aluminum foil and some acrylic or tempera paint. Make Dungeons and Dragons dice by writing down the numbers used in the game with tips from a gaming...
Watercolor paints, known traditionally as aquarelle in France, are a painting medium in which pigment is suspended in gum arabic and then applied to paper in combination with water. This painting...
Some of the earliest pieces of artwork in existence were created using tempera paints. Frescoes and wall paintings found throughout Europe, Africa and even the Americas were created using this...
Tempera paint is a staple in most children's art projects and in elementary classrooms. While companies such as Crayola make a washable version of tempera paint, there is no guarantee that what...
Children love to paint craft items, paper and coloring-book pages. It is important to find paints that are nontoxic for children to use. Fast-drying and easy clean-up paints are products that...
Tempera is a name given not only to the paint, but also to the process of this particular paint. Tempera is derived from a Latin word meaning "blending." When dry, it is a permanent paint. Tempera...
Hundreds of years ago, artists could not go to a store to purchase paints. They had to create their paints. One type of paint artists made was tempera paint. Tempera paint sold in stores today,...
Although tempera painting is the world's oldest painting medium, it is still in use today, and artists from beginners to professional level use tempera paints to execute their artistic visions. ...
Classical painting techniques have been used for centuries as guidelines for artists and and sculptors. Classical painting incorporates a point of view that exalts the visible world and past...
Paint techniques expand the potential of your paints to include the thinnest of washes to the thickest, most textured stucco effects. An acrylic paint can be made to look like a watercolor wash,...
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