The flower plant motif is inspired by an etching of 19 century designed by Maucherat de Longpré. Plants appear in many different forms in art, and artists historically drew inspiration from different types of plants and flowers at different times.
Arts and Crafts for kids
A book with 50 contemporary mandalas to color
Designer’s Mandalas is a collection of 50 unique illustrations to color, inspired by contemporary art and design. Coloring pages might help you calm your mind, daydream, meditate and relieve stress naturally, offering also an opportunity to practice color and aesthetic awareness in a pleasurable way.
Click on the link to purchace the book Designer's Mandalas.
The following designs are contained in the book and are colored by the author.
Paper city
Make a colorful two dimensional city scape, maybe a theatrical scenery. Before you start drawing and cutting papers, think the type of city that you would like to recreate.
Materials & tools
Materials & tools
- Heavy colored paper
- Scissors
- Pencil
Play-dough woman in blue
Modeling clay is ideal for creating 3d characters, men, women, kids, comic heroes and much more. Lets make the figure of a lady. Working with clay is really enjoying, relaxing and a wonderful medium to understand the world. As the kid progresses from simple models to more complex project he will become hooked.
Non-baked Modeling Clay Rose
Modeling clay, such as play doh or dough, is a versatile, cheap material suitable for endless experimentations. See how you can make a romantic rose with plasticine.
Pixel Art Style Painting (graph paper art)
Pixel art is a form of digital painting where pictures are constructed out of small colored square units. In this activity you can create pixel art style graphics and images using graph papers.
First you need to print a graph paper. You can search for a graph paper either in the web or you can print the following graph paper. In printer settings, choose to fit the grid in an A4 paper.
First you need to print a graph paper. You can search for a graph paper either in the web or you can print the following graph paper. In printer settings, choose to fit the grid in an A4 paper.
3D free-standing, modular structures with clothespins
Create free standing sculptures composed of wood clothes pins. The goal of this activity is the kids to understand the concept of modular constructions and to experiment with an interesting technique of grasping and joining things together: When the two prongs of clothes pins are pinched at the top, the prongs open up. When released the spring draws the two prongs shut, gripping anything in between. In general, 3d crafts activities are an excellent opportunity to experiment with balance and three dimensional space.
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