50+ Painting Activities for Kids to Craft Masterpieces

Looking for simple painting activities that your kids can complete at home or in the classroom? 🎭

Allowing young children to experiment freely with art supplies and instruments is the best method to get them to learn while creating art.🎴

We have a tonne of creative painting projects for kids of all skill levels, so they can get their hands dirty and unleash their creativity. Your kids will believe you’re Picasso after exploring some of the following painting ideas, from paintbrush to fingertips and cotton buds to bubbles!🥏

Simple Painting Activities For Kids

Acrylic Paint Pouring

This activity is a simple and enjoyable method to employ unusual color combinations to quickly and easily produce abstract paintings without the need for any brushstrokes!

You’ll need a canvas or piece of paper, some acrylic as well as tempera paints, and a little clear cup for this entertaining painting exercise. 🧤

To learn how to mix and then pour the colors to aid your children in producing stunning works of art, watch this tutorial!

Ice Painting

One of our best painting ideas, this activity is ideal for a sunny day in the summer. Pick up an ice cube tray, fill it with washable paint and water, then freeze it until firm.

Give your children the ice cubes once they have been removed so they can paint themselves on paper, or even outside! Rest assured that it will wash off.🧸

Pendulum of Paint

It’s time to get messy using a Homemade paint pendulum that you constructed from some repurposed materials.

For a cool dynamic art creation with an array of colors and designs, spray some paint into a bucket that is dangling over a large canvas (see the link for more instructions).🎨

Colorful Fork Friends!

Help your youngsters make adorable miniature monsters out of a fork, a surprising household object!

The fork’s paint strokes resemble wild hair or fur. Your weird companions will be finished once you’ve added googly eyes and various embellishments.🔋

Bubbles Bubbles Bubbles!

This kid-friendly activity will undoubtedly blow their heads! Mix paint and soapy water in a sizable plastic container, and then wrap it in white paper.

Provide straws to your children, and have children blow into the color solution until the bubbles appear on the paper. 

They’ll leave the paper with cool, vibrant bubble impressions that will produce a wholly original pattern.🏆

Coffee Filter Designs

For this painting activity, get a box of watercolors and some coffee filters. You can try to make things like comical faces, hot air balloons, rainbows, ballerinas, and more!⚽️

Foam Noodle Fun

You can use a wide range of art supplies for this kid-friendly craft. Pool noodles can be made by trimming the end off and adding pipe cleaners or buttons for texture or a fantastic squiggly design. 🃏

With this entertaining art project, the possibilities are unlimited!

Cotton Ball Rain Clouds

With this painting technique for a wet day, let gravity handle the work. Make a cloud form out of cotton balls and have your kids glue it to the top of a piece of newspaper. 🌸

Squeeze a little color around the clouds using an eyedropper or a cotton ball once it has been saturated. 💮

Then, take up the piece of paper and allow gravity to assist in making the colors fall like rain.🍁

Smack and Splatter Art

Folks, this is going to be a messy one! Go outside and gather a large kitchen spoon, a few little sponges, acrylic paint, and paper.

Put the sponges on the paper after soaking them in various paint colors. Give them a spoon slap once you’ve got them arranged in a pattern!

Toothbrush Art

When you have toothbrushes, who needs paintbrushes? Instead of tossing away your old toothbrushes when it’s time for a replacement, give them to your children so they may create some works of art.

Simple materials and any kind of paper or paint are used for this project. Let’s start brushing, then!🍁

Straw paintings 

Paint can be blown over straws or splattered on them. Simply drop a drop of color onto the paper as well as blow through the straw to spread it out, or pick up a little paint in a straw and then splatter it over the paper.🧸

Foam Painting 

Foam painting is the best and easiest method. For this one, all you need is shaving cream, school glue, as well as food coloring. Have fun drawing! 👍 

Ball painting

Ball painting is a great way to spend your time ⏲️ It’s so exciting and different! Let’s do some ball crafts today! Even the youngest painters may master this very straightforward ball art drawing idea because the balls perform all the labor in this project.

The end piece of art is frequently unexpected, and the technique is enjoyable and simple.👑

Cotton ball painting 

Who among children doesn’t enjoy messy painting? Children of all ages will adore this cotton ball drawing activity.

It is a fantastic game for children since it incorporates both gross motor (throwing) and fine motor (pinching) features. 🕶

Water Balloon 🎈 painting 

Have you ever used water balloons to paint? No? This is your cue to prepare a creative project for your young children that involves water balloons.

Q-tip Painting 

Kids may paint more intricate pictures using Q-tips and experiment with a variety of colors with simple cleanup. Kids’ motor abilities can be greatly enhanced by using Q-tips, and dot painting is a breeze.🎯

 By tracing a pattern on the paper and allowing your children to fill it in with various colored dots, you may give them a guide. Excellent for blossoming cherry trees or giving a photo that distinctive finishing touch.

Contrasting Colors

All you require for this daring painting project is black and white paint. See how your child expresses themselves by giving them a black canvas with white color or a whiteboard and black paint!🍁

Finger Painting Fun

A really enjoyable hands-on method of painting with children is finger painting. They have the freedom to use as much flamboyance in their expression and feel the paint.

So start expressing yourself creatively by grabbing some easy-to-clean fingerpaint.

Sidewalk Chalk Paint

Try using this guide to make your own pavement paint; it’s entertaining and simple. You can color every pavement in your neighborhood with some leftover street chalk, cornstarch, and water!🥏

Foam Brush Painting

By cutting tiny designs from sponges and gluing them on little paint sticks, you may create or purchase foam brushes.

The greatest paints are washable, so stock up on a variety of hues and let the children loose!

Birch Tree Art Using Yarn

This yarn artwork is likely to elicit “WOWS!” from the creative child in each of us. Provide your children with a canvas, acrylic paint, and yarn so they may create their designs. To create a texture resembling trees, they will tie the yarn over the canvas. 🎯

Then rub away with some cotton buds and any craft paint. Before they take out the yarn and admire their creation, let it dry.🎮

Salt Painting 

Your kids’ imaginations will surely be sparked by this salty play. A solid piece of paper, glue, watercolors, and yes, SALT are all things you’ll need. On the paper, draw a design with a pen and then use glue to trace the lines. 🍁

When the glue has dried, sprinkle salt over it before adding watercolors. The cold salt texture will make your children’s artwork stand out from the paper.🔋

Green Thumbprint Flower Pots

Help your children make their own pots for flowers to get them enthused about the outdoors!

Find some inspiration for creative fingerprint designs here, then start painting with some standard paints.

Black Glue Jellyfish

Follow the instructions available on the internet to combine black acrylic colors and glue, then trace the contour of a jellyfish to complete this lovely painting project.

Your children can use watercolors to add color and life to their jellyfish once the glue outline has dried.✨️

Puffy Paint Fun

You can create your own homemade puffy paint. Did you know that? Making some magic is so easy and only needs a few common ingredients!

Once the paint is prepared, your children can make incredible 3-D artwork that is as puffy as clouds.👑

Painting with a Twist

Your child’s paintings can stand out by adding extra details. Painting with a twist might be one entertaining concept. This can be done by children by putting food coloring in water and spraying it on the canvas. 

You could also fill a spray bottle with paint and let the children free rein. Simply lay down some newspaper or a tarp to cover your surfaces.💮

Painting with Feet

This is an additional enjoyable and simple method for giving your child’s paintings a special touch. By dipping the tips of their toes in paint and leaving footprints on the canvas, instruct them to paint with their feet. 

For smaller children who might not yet be ready to use a paintbrush or other painting utensils, this is a great solution.

Painting Gourds

Because of their distinctive shape and texture, gourds make excellent canvases for paintings. It would be beneficial if you first let the gourd dry up by placing it in sunlight for a period of time. Your youngster can color it whatever they like once it has dried.👑

Scrape Painting

A simple and enjoyable technique to give your child’s artwork texture and intrigue is to use scrape paint. Possessing color, a putty knife, as well as a canvas would be beneficial. 

Use the putty knife to help your youngster spread the paint around the canvas. The paint can then be scraped off to make intriguing patterns using the back of the razor (or their fingers).🧸

Glue and Fabric Painting

Even the smallest children can paint like this because it is so simple to accomplish. A piece of fabric, fabric paint, and glue are all that are required. 

Please assist your youngster in gluing the material in any pattern they like. Ask them to cover the glue with fabric paint after it has dried. The outcome is an original and one-of-a-kind work of art!

Tape Painting

Painter’s tape and paint are all you require for this simple painting project. Please assist your youngster in using the tape to make any pattern they like on an item of paper. 

When finished, they can paint the entire surface with one color or several colors. Remove the tape slowly once they’ve completed painting to see their masterpiece!👑

Block painting 

Taming Little Monsters and other abstract geometric paintings can be made in a fun way by painting with blocks. When using shape blocks, the resulting designs are additionally useful to match shapes in a subsequent exercise. 🃏

You can also play around with various building blocks, such as the concept of Lego, Duplo, wooden, foam, as well as plastic ones, to discover what kinds of prints they produce.🎯

Car Painting

Another entertaining method to include movement and sensory inquiry into art-making is to paint with cars, as Coffee Cups & The crayons did. Additionally, getting kids to cross the center point when painting is a terrific activity that is crucial for mind development. 🎁

However, this can become a little dirty, so you’ll need a little soapy water to wash the cars afterward.🎴

Chalk Painting

Creating paint with chalk is a fantastic way to use all the tiny pieces of broken chalk. Kids can enjoy it outdoors as a fun summer activity. ☀️ 

You may easily remove it with water, or you can wait until it rains while leaving your paintings in place. The girls had a great time painting our driveway and footpath.🍁

Cookie Cutter Painting

Younger children can make suitable shapes quickly and easily with cookie cutters. To trace the outline on paper, simply paint the cookie cutter or playdough cutter.

They are able to create abstract art similar to Projects With Kids by using a variety of cutters and paint colors.🍁

Crayon Resist Painting

Because you can make a picture—or letters, words, shapes, etc.—magically materialize before their eyes while they paint, crayon-resist painting is perfect for kids who enjoy the magic.

One of my daughters’ favorite painting techniques is this one because they love the surprise that awaits them.🎭

Egg painting 

Using eggs to create paintings outside is a lot of fun. The kids will have a blast throwing the painted egg shells to make their masterpieces after carefully filling the shells with paint. 🏅

For children in the trajectory schema that enjoy throwing things, egg painting is a fantastic pastime, but beware—it can get a little messy.🎈

Flower painting 

Instead of throwing away or composting some wilting flowers, do some lovely flower paintings with them. 🎯

If you don’t already have any flowers at home, go on a nature walk in your neighborhood and gather a few different kinds to see how each one makes a different design when you use it as paint.🕶

Fly swatter painting 

Fly swatter painting is a wonderfully entertaining yet quite dirty method of painting. This one should absolutely be done outside, in clothes that you don’t mind getting soiled. ☀️

Additionally, I advise utilizing a fly swatter that was purchased especially for this activity rather than one that you use at home.🌿

String Painting

This is a fantastic idea for a kindergarten art project. Kids can make professional-looking art with watercolor paints, water, yarn, plus a tissue box.♠️

These artworks are ideal for making Mother’s Day or Father’s Day cards.🀄

Foam Painting 

Foam painting is the best and easiest method. For this one, all you need is shaving cream, school glue, as well as food coloring. Have fun drawing! 👍

Painting with trucks

Painting with trucks is a traditional art project for kids to enjoy as they observe color blending and tire prints☀️

Bubble wrap stomp painting

The art of finger painting is well known, but how about stomp painting? It’s the ideal exercise for developing gross motor skills.🏅 

For this, you just need to ensure your child 🧒 pairs up bubble wrap and dip the leg 🦵 in a little bit of paint 🎨 and walk through a white paper to get beautiful artwork.

Rubber duck painting

With this art exercise, let their imaginations go wild: Simply get a marker pen and a rubber duck to serve as a stamp. (If the duck squeaks, it provides them added excitement.) 

If you’re feeling very ambitious, you could cut out and attach various paper shapes to the bottoms of various ducks, but the duck’s bottom functions just fine on its own.🌿

Paint on foil painting 

Kids will enjoy the visual, tactile, and acoustic stimulation that comes from painting on aluminum foil, which also allows them to create art. 🃏

The paint will smear across the outermost layer and make crackling noises when it is applied rather than absorbed into the foil.

Handprint printing

A wonderful approach to mixing a sensory experience with art is through hand-print painting. Similar to finger art, it’s as much about experiencing the paint’s texture as it is about producing a work of art. 🎨

Younger kids will enjoy experimenting with hand painting, but it may become messy, particularly if they get enthusiastic.

Nature Brush Painting 

Making paintbrushes from nature is a fascinating outdoor pastime that you can use to make some entertaining paintings.

While out for a walk in the forest, gather a variety of leaves and sticks from various plants, then coil them up like a mess to create one-of-a-kind nature brushes. Try out various leaf sizes and patterns to see how they affect how the paint spreads.🎯

Scrunch Painting

Scrunching up various materials into balls and painting them is a highly enjoyable painting technique. When dipped in paint, the crumpled materials will all produce unique prints and patterns. 🌿🍃

Picklebums created crushed paintings using newspaper, alfoil, a plastic bag, wrapping paper, a cotton scarf, and a plastic bag.

Conclusion 

I hope you will like all these activities specially made for your kid. These activities will help your child to improve their imagination power🔋 and develop an interest in art and aesthetics.