One of the things I love about home schooling is incorporating more hands on activities and art into my girls’ education. But of course you don’t have to home school to enjoy some messy time with your kids!
I love the Art Lab books for help when I want to give them something new to try for art time.
We have 3-D Art Lab for Kids, Art Lab for Little Kids, and Art Lab for Kids. Each book showcases many different techniques and a basic way to use them, and an example of a professional artist and how they apply the technique. Many of the supplies needed are basics, but you will find some that you’ll have to venture to the art store to find. I actually make a list occasionally of techniques or projects we want to try and make a materials list, then the next time Blick Art Supplies has a good sale I stock up so we’re all ready to go.
This is a super simple activity but my girls love this one. LOVE. Just drop some colored chalk into small containers of buttermilk and give your kids some cardstock. They’ll figure out the rest. 🙂 As the chalk sits in the buttermilk it gets more and more smooth and semi soft and glides on the paper.
This works well on dark paper as well. You can also use one container of buttermilk and just dip the pieces of chalk into it as you go. I have these old baking trays that work great though. Only down side is, you need to toss the chalk when you’re done. I’ve tried rinsing it off to reuse… but it grew.. fuzzy stuff. So I guess it’s art and science in one! 🙂
Lucy loves making “Sink or Float?” charts. 🙂
Amelia loved how smooth it was.
