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Fun and Affordable Art Activities for Kids: Creativity that Won't Cost You a Bundle!
Fun and exciting arts activities for kids using everyday household items.Creativity does not need to cost a bundle. These fun ideas are great for the classroom, home, a stormy afternoon, or even parties. Everyday items such as ice cube trays, magazines, clothes pins, flour, and left over holiday tissue paper can be the tools for exciting creative expression in your household or classroom. Try these fun and inexpensive ideas with your children today.
Abstract Ice Paintings
Supplies: Non-toxic paint, ice cube trays, paper, crayons and water
Fill each the ice cube tray with 3/4 water. Add paint to each tray until each section is filled to the top. Use a spoon to stir in the paint. Freeze trays. Have the children draw simple pictures on large sheets of paper. Once the "paint cubes" are ready, have the students paint a wash of color over their drawings. The drawings will "magically" show up through the ice color wash. Set the pictures to dry and hang for all to see!
Silly Self-Portrait CollageSupplies: Magazines, markers and/or color pencils, paper, glue, scissors
Each child draws an oval for their face. They can use color pencils for shading in skin tones, freckles, and/or hair. Using old magazines, each child can recreate their own face (and body) by using the parts from people in the magazines. Kids have a lot of fun mixing and matching eyes, ears, noses, feet, hands, etc. and seeing the zany results. You can even go digital and try using a computer for some zany results!
Easy Stretchy Salt Dough Sculptures
Recipe: 2 Cups of white flour, 1 cup of salt, approximately one cup of water (as needed)
Have the kids help you mix the salt and flour, as you slowly add water. When the flour comes off the sides, it is ready for sculpting. After creating a fun sculpture (some ideas are animals, bowls, or ornaments), you can harden the sculptures by either leaving it in the sun for a few days or baking at a low temperature for 20-45 minutes. Baking time depends on the thickness and size of the sculptures. Once the sculptures are hard, kids can decorate the sculptures using paint, glue, and markers.
Holiday Tissue Paper Paintings
Supplies: Gift Tissue Paper in Vibrant Colors, Water, Paper
Have lots of leftover birthday and holiday tissue paper? You do not have to throw gift bags of paper away. Instead, recycle it for some painting fun! Dip small portions of bright tissue paper in water and use it to paint on large pieces of paper. Kids will have a great time expressing themselves!
Clothes Pin Dolls
Large wooden clothes pins can easily be transformed into entire doll families. Use the round knob as the head. Kids can wrap pipe cleaners around the middle for arms. After attaching arms, coloring the entire clothespin with markers (or even paint) can change the clothes pins into superheroes, a family, animals, or whatever your child's imagination can think of. Extras like yarn, googly eyes, or buttons can be added for extra decoration.
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