Category: Kids Art
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Using Your Child’s Artwork for Chrome’s Background (and Animating It!)
See how we created a custom animated Chrome browser background depicting Baby Yoda shaking a can of BBQ Pringles!
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The Summer of Robot Drawings
We literally had a summer full of dozens and dozens of renditions of robots. What do you do with too many robot drawings? We make wall decals, of course!
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My kids make personalized cards for special events – and I love it!
My kid’s willingness to make home-drawn cards for holidays and special events has always made me happy. Need some inspiration to inspire your family to make homemade and hand-drawn cards? Here are a few of my favorites!
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Decorate your Faux Fiddle Leaf Fig Tree
At Arts and Bricks, we’re passionate about design, kids’ artwork, and LEGO bricks! So, of course, our living room’s Faux Fiddle Leaf Fig Tree’s decor rotates between LEGO bricks and kids’ creations!
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Elementary-School Science Dioramas
Love them or hate them, elementary school diorama projects are part of life for the typical parent! Here we’re sharing our process for making a grassland diorama in 2nd grade and a rainforest diorama in 5th grade.
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Food Folding Surprise “Monster” Drawings
Learn to draw food-themed folded monsters. Go from delicious to terrifying! Especially fun for elementary-aged children!
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Digital Collaging – Seeing the world through the artistic eyes of a child!
Arts and Bricks creator Kelly Barkhurst shares a digital collage technique that combines photographs and children’s artwork, showing our world through our children’s eyes!
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Best Art Gifts for Kids
Here at Arts and Bricks, we’re BIG fans of creative kids (and that’s every child)! This round-up of arts and crafts gift ideas is full of products that foster children’s creativity and “artsy” making. Our list is specially selected for elementary-aged children, children 5 to 12.
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Attending our first art summer camp for kids
Explore the projects taught during an elementary aged art camp in our area. The focus was mixed-media and included printmaking and collage.
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My children’s renderings of the human form
I’m fascinated by how my children draw, paint, and doodle themselves, our family, and others. The way their renderings of the human form have changed over the years is fascinating. Here are my favorite drawings of people created by my favorite little people!
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Roll-A-Haring Art Game for Kids
Learn to make your own Roll-A-Haring dice game or print and play our Sports and Christmas-themed games.
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5 Easy and Fun Watercolor Techniques for Children
Here are 5 easy watercolor techniques for children
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Nativity Tissue Paper Mosaic Kids Craft
This year, I asked my 4th-grade son to make a gift for his teacher to accompany our gift card and note. He decided to make this Mosaic Nativity Hanging Ornament.
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Haunted House Lift-A-Flap Craft for Kids
This Halloween make a SPOOKTACULAR paper haunted house. Flip open flaps to reveal ghosts, bats, and more!
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Kids Crafts that use Wiggly Eyes
We LOVE Googly Eyes. Seriously, a box of Wiggle or Google eyes is an affordable MUST-HAVE craft supply for mommas with creative kids!
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Send a Handprint Hug
Send a hug in the mail for Grandparents Day, Valentine’s Day, Holidays, and more. The beauty of this craft is that your gift actually wraps your recipient in a true hug.
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Painted Paper: Collage Craft Ideas for Kids
A favorite mixed-media technique: painted paper for use in collages. Artistic kids will love these project ideas!
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Sidewalk Chalk Mosaic Art
Have you ever looked at your bucket of sidewalk chalk and thought, “What do we do with this?” Today, I’m here to inspire you with a very simple, family-friendly outdoor chalk mosaic art project.
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Process Art: Experiment with Paint and Straws
Read about ways to experiment with straws and paint; the ultimate, fun process art experiment!
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Folding Surprise: Monster Paper Craft for Kids
Learn how to draw a surprise big-mouthed monster. This is a simple activity that requires just a sheet of paper, writing or coloring utensil, and a bit of imagination!
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Circle Shape Drawing Activity for Kids
Perfect as a quick time filler or rainy day afternoon activity, the premise for circle drawing is simple: think creatively and draw something that is the shape of a circle.
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Magazine Collage Ideas for Kids
Instead of throwing away old magazines, save their brightly printed pages for use in magazine collage artwork that you can make with your kids!
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Paper Airplanes for Kids
Explore our favorite design ideas for the most timeless kids’ craft: paper airplanes!
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How to Make Wearable Dinosaur Feet for Crafty Kids
Rooaar! Stomp! This easy craft is sure to become a family favorite! Create your very own dinosaur feet with just three craft supplies: markers, cardboard, scissors and optional pipe cleaners.
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Ghost Peek-A-Boooo Cardboard Craft
When making a cereal box cardboard ghost cutout for nature exploration, of course only a Lego brick-themed ghost will do!
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Fall Leaf Craft Idea: Gel Pens
Create exquisite patterned fall leaves by doodling with gel pens. It’s hours of relaxing, creative fun!
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Keith Haring Inspired Art Project for Kids
Check out our Keith-Haring inspired elementary-aged art project – featuring The Blue Lego Brick dancing the floss.
