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Watercolor resist ideas for kids

Watercolor resist bookmarks for Valentine’s day classroom gift idea

We prefer hand made gifts for the valentine’s day classroom gift. As my daughter has to make gifts for 30 kids, the process should not take more time. Last year, she used picmonkey to make valentine’s day card. This year we made bookmarks with our old beloved crayon resist technique. Materials needed: 1. Watercolor paper …

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Aluminium foil earrings

Aluminium foil earrings

As you might know, we love aluminium foil. We have done Aluminium foil stained glass painting, Aluminium foil flying hearts, Aluminium foil heart, Aluminium foil jewelry, Aluminium foil flowers. This time we made earrings with foil. They are very simple to make. My eight year old is very happy that she can make her own jewelry. …

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Watercolor painting ideas for kids

Progressive watercolor technique heart

We had tried progressive watercolor technique earlier while doing Sun. We did not get the effect we were hoping for. I had done progressive watercolor technique at my school, but could not recreate. When I did a google search for progressive watercolor technique, I found progressive watercolor art tutorial from Grow Creative. Followed the tutorial …

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Kandinsky inspired heart painting

kandinsky inspired heart painting

Kandinsky is a well known Russian painter and artist. He is known for his work ” Farbstudie Quadrate” – Squares with concentric circles. I had created a matching activity earlier inspired by his work. Now we did painting – squares with concentric hearts as part of our Valentine’s day activities. Affiliation links are used Materials …

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Aluminium foil heart Valentines day

Aluminium foil heart – Valentines day gift idea

Aluminium foil art is something we love! It is completely mess free and creates cool stained glass effect. My daughter wanted to make a gift for her teacher for Valentine’s day. We decided to go with our beloved aluminium foil art. You may be interested to check out our previous work with Aluminium foil – …

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Hand drawn 3D activity ideas

Hand drawn 3D heart – Valentine’s day craft

Hi All,Isn’t fascinating to create an illusion of 3D by hand? We had created a 3D palm art earlier. We used the same technique to create a 3D heart this time. The best part about this craft is it requires only basic stationery  available at home! Materials required : (affiliation links) 1. Paper ( We …

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Aluminium foil stained painting ideas

Aluminium foil stained glass painting

We had used Aluminium foil to create these beautiful flowers earlier. For the flowers, we had used tacky glue to create and raise the flowers. When my daughter asked me for aluminum foil art again,  I wanted to raise the design through some other way. When I started the project, I did not know how …

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