Flower Power ~ Rock Painting

 
 Materials Required:-

Large rock
Pencil
Paints (Acrylic Paints or Teracotta Paints)
Paint Brushes
Water
small Cups
Plastic Palette or Paper Plate
Colored pencil (White or Yellow)
Clear Acrylic spray

Method:-

 1) Choose a rock :- Choose round or chunky rocks that will stand up on one flat end. Rocks which have smooth surfaces are the easiest to paint. When you have rock clean it and scrub it and let it dry.

2) Divide your rock:- Use a pencil to a line around the bottom third of your rock.Keep this line as level as possible otherwise your flower bowl will look uneven.

3) Paint the bowl :- Pick a colour for bowl.I painted it with light blue ( Blue + White).Use brush to paint the bowl all the way down to the bottom.Let the paint dry.

4) Paint the background:-Rinse your brush and mix green with enough black to make a very dark green . A dark colour behind the leaves and flowers will make them to stand out. Paint this colour from the top down to the bowl. Let the paint dry.

5) Draw the Leaves:- Use a white or yellow pencil to draw differnt size oval leaves.Start with a cluster at the top,then work down.Its ok to have irregular spaces between the leaves.

6) Paint the leaves:- Use a small brush to  paint the leaves at the very top of the rock. Paint some of the leaves with light green colour( green + yellow).

7) Detail the leaves:- Mix a little black with green to make dark green.Use skinny  brush to add a crease down the centre of all the dark green leaves.Use the plain green to paint the creases in the other leaves.
Use black paint to outline the places where the leaves overlap.

8) Draw the flower shapes:- When the paint is dry use a white or yellow  pencil to draw flowers in the centre and edges. Draw some flowers close together and others farther apart.Draw some buds also.

9) Paint the flowers:- Use your medium brush and white paint to fil in all the flowers shapes.Let it dry and paint the second coat if needed.

10) Add Petal Details:- An easy way to paint flowers is to paint curl in the middle of each flower with a small brush and red paint.Begin in the center each time.The spirals will look better if they are a little uneven or if there are small gaps in the lines.

11) Add Flower Buds:- Fill in any plain looking places with few flower buds. Mix pale pink by adding a touch of red to a drop of white.Use your brush to make a centre oval shape and add two smaller ovals one on each side.

12) Paint Bud Details:-Use your small brush with red paint to outline the inside edges of the two sides ovals,and one straight line up the center

13)  If you want to make your rock shiny then spray it with clear acrylic spray which also protects the paint..

Yor beautiful Flower Rock is ready :)

Source:- Painting on rocks for kids by Lin Wellford

Easy Mothers Day Card / Easy Mothers Day Craft

Mother's Day will be here soon and you can quickly and easily make something for your mom.If you are a Dad, preschool teacher, or a School teacher looking for a simple craft that mom will love, try this out. My daughter made this greeting cards for me last year on Mother's Day in her School.

What you'll need:

    * Print out of poem or hand print poem
    * Water based paints - finger paints or tempera paints or acrylic paints.
    * Plate or something to hold the paint.
    * Brush or sponge to apply paint to hand.
    * Markers
    * Paper towels or some other way to do a quick cleanup

How to make it:

Here's the poem for you to copy or to print.

      Sometimes you get discouraged
      Because I am so small
      And always leave my fingerprints
      On furniture and walls

      But every day I'm growing --
      I'll be grown some day
      And all those tiny hand prints
      Will surely fade away

      So here's a little hand print
      Just so you can recall
      Exactly how my fingers looked
      When I was very small

      Put a date here
      Love, put name here

         written by T. Lambert, Jr.

What to do:

   1. Cover the table with newspaper where kids are going to paint..
   2. Have the children paint the palm of their hand with one color then press hand on the constuction paper .
   3. Keep it aside for drying.
   4. Clean the hand with paper towel or wash your hand.
   5. Print the poem or write the poem with marker inside the card.
   6. Personalize with the date and name (if it isn't already).
   7. Let it dry completely.
  8. Gift it to your Mother on Mother's Day.

You can have the child write " Happy Mothers Day"  and " I Love you Mom"on the front of the card and decorate it with pictures or colours using their creativity. Once mom reads the poem and sees the handprint she might just shed a few tears, the poem is quite touching and it is true how quickly children grow up.

Make sure that you put the date on the card and possibly the child's age at the time. That way when mom looks back through her cards she will know how long ago it was given to her and just how little that hand print was.

Happy Mothers Day !!!

Cherry Blossom Craft for kids

What You Need :-

Construction Paper for the Background
Brown Paint, Crayons, or Markers for the branches
pink tissue paper
Glue ,white glue, and optionally, Elmer's school gel (blue), it squeezes out of the bottle so nicely

How To Make It :-

Protect work surfaces and children, you don't want this paint to get on anything.

Paint a tree with bare branches onto the construction paper with the brown paint. Or, you can draw one with brown crayons or markers.

Set aside to dry.

Tear tissue paper into little pieces and roll to make tiny balls.

Apply dots of glue alongside branches, and place balls in glue.

Gorgeous works of art Cherry blossoming tree is ready!

Tissue Paper Flowers

Tissue paper flowers are just so easy to make that they are a perfect decoration for any gift or event.

Materials Needed:-

Tissue papers
pipe cleaners
scissors

Instructions:-

1) For each flower you will need a stack of 8 sheets of tissue paper. You can use different colors.
2) Take your stack and fold it accordion style, into 1 inch folds. You can make different sized flowers by changing the size of the tissue paper squares and the amount of layers of paper you start with.

Accordion Style Folding

3) Twist a pipe cleaner around the center to keep paper together..
4) Gently pull apart the paper on each flower layer by layer, and fluff the paper upwards to create the flower’s shape.
5) You can try rounding out the edges or cutting diagonally to create pointy edges with your scissors before you form the flowers to create different petal shapes.
Attach your finished flowers onto your gift box or arrange them on tables or in vases.

This tissue paper flowers goes to Artsy-Craftsy February

Message Rocks ~ Rock Painting

Rocks can carry messages!I love rocks. My daughter also loves rocks very much.Rocks that are hand painted you can keep for yourself and place in strategic places to inspire you.That Painted Rocks with messages can be given to loved ones, friends, people you care for.

Amaze your Friends with special rocks painted just for them ! My Little Girl made this to give as a gift for her classmates on Valentines Day.She had fun writing her classmates names on rocks and giving them away.This is a fun project for kids, teens, and adults!

Materials  Needed :-

• Smooth clean stones
• Acrylic paint
• Paint Brushes
• Mod Podge (optional)
• Water
• Plastic Cup for Water

Instructions:-

1. Wash your rock to remove dirt. Dry it with a towel and then let it air-dry for 15 minutes.

2. Paint the rock with your desired colour. Let it dry  completely.Once that is dry, paint the rock with another layer. It gives a nice rich color that way.

4. Then turn the rock and paint it and keep it for drying.

5. Once your paint is dry you may wish to put a coat of Mod Podge on as a sealer.

6. So just go ahead and brush it on nice and thick...don't worry, it dries clear! Let them dry completely.

 7. Once everything is dry,You can start writing the message  you might like on your rocks...the sky is the limit just use your imagination! Let it dry completely.

You can write messages such as:

• Rock on
• You rock
• Love
• Hope
• Smile
• Laugh
• Hugs
• Cheers
• Thanks
• You can also write your Friends Names

Fingerprint Garden

 What to do on a cold and rainy days ? How to keep our kids busy ?Get your paints and ink pads and start finger printing! Create a garden with bugs,butterflies and flowers.My daughter enjoyed doing this.

Materials needed:

construction paper ( We used white)
paints or ink pads
Newspapers to lay across the table
markers or crayons
Paper Plate or Plastic Palette
Small cup
Water
Tissue paper

How to make your Fingerprint Garden:

1) Cover the table with newspaper where kids are going to paint.
2) Take a tissue paper and small cup with water (for rinsing the hand).
3) The first thing is to take the light colored construction paper and a paper plate with a few colours on it.
4) Dab the thumb with the colours of your choice.
5) Print it on a construction paper as the butterfly's wings.
6) You also add in some flowers, leaves and the bees ,bugs  too with fingerprints.
7) Once it is all dried up ,draw some stripes and wings with markers to the bugs and bees.Draw antennas to the butterflies.
8) Draw few flowers also.Give final touch ups.
There is a  beautiful fingerprint garden with butterflies ,flowers,bugs and bees!

Fingerprint Flowers

Kids love to get messy, and allowing them to do so actually improves their motor skills and they will also have lot of fun.Allow kids to express their creativity with a finger-painting activity.My daughter made this beautiful flowers with her fingerprints.This idea can be used to make a beautiful greeting card also.

Materials needed:

construction paper ( We used white)
paints or ink pads
Newspapers to lay across the table
markers or crayons
Paper Plate or Plastic Palette
Small cup
Water
Tissue paper

 
How to make your Fingerprint Flowers:

1) Cover the table with newspaper where kids are going to paint.
2) Take a tissue paper and small cup with water (for rinsing the hand).
3) The first thing is to take the light colored construction paper and a paper plate with a few colours on it.
4) Let them dab their fingers into the paint and then put fingerprints on the paper. We can also use washable ink pads to do this, instead of paints.
5) They can make fingerprint flowers by arranging four or five or six prints in a petal formation.
6) After the paint dried we can add some final touches with markers.With the markers children can draw some stems for flowers.

Your cute fingerprint flowers are ready.

Trinket Box ~ Craft with Popsicle Sticks

This trinket box is made of popsicle sticks and makes a great Father's Day gift. It can be used to hold your loose change, keys, wallet or just about anything.Popsicle stick crafts are perfect for children of all ages, and challenges their building skills as well as their imagination.

Materials:


    * Box of Popsicle sticks
    * Various colors of Paint
    * White glue

Method:-


First take popsicle sticks and color with a paint ( I used Poster Colors). Then let the painted sticks dry completely.

1) Lay 11 popsicle sticks flat on your work surface so that the edges are touching and they are all even.  We will call this the base of the frame.

2) Run a bead of glue in a straight line vertical to the sticks you laid down and close to one end (means glue them side by side)

3) Lay a stick on top of this bead of glue.  We'll refer to this as the brace.

4) Repeat steps 2 & 3 on the other end of the sticks.

5) Put a dot of glue on each of the four corners.  Lay two sticks horizontal to the to brace pieces you glued down.

6) Put a dot of glue on each of the four corners again and lay two sticks horizontal to the last two you laid.

7) Continue in this fashion, building up the sides of the box until height you desired is reached (each side should have at least 6 sticks).

8) Glue the piece of felt to the inside of the box for a nice finished look.

Source:- Crafts Elf