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Art projects by type:
PRINTING:
- Styrofoam printing
- Watercolors, leaves, and saran wrap = a new way to make leaf prints
- Flower printing with liquid watercolors
- Monoprinting take II – Success!
- Monoprints on the Tabletop
- Leaf printing in the nature journal
- Printing with lemons and strawberries
- Making Nature Prints in Sculpey and Flower Prints in Sculpey and in Playdough
- Potato stamps
PAINTING:
- Thirteen fun art activities with tempera paint
- 11 fun watercolor projects for kids
- Experimenting with watercolors and melted crayon
- Rubber cement and watercolors -- another fun resist
- Having fun with glue batik
- Painting free for all
- Glue + Salt + Watercolors = Salty Watercolors
- Body painting with the art group
- Watercolor painting over tissue paper collage
- Con-tact paper watercolor resist
- Tempera Painting on Canvas (or paper)
- Mixed-media Paintings and Notecards
- Spin Art
- Puffy Paint (and with the Toddler Art Group)
- Shaving cream painting and more shaving cream painting
- String painting with the art group
- Liquid watercolors and coffee filters
- Marble rolling with the art group
- Jackson Pollock collaborative
- Watercolors and saran wrap
- Painting and printing on canvas with the Toddler Art Group
- Texture painting with the Toddler Art Group
- Fingerpainting Jackson Pollock Style
- Watercolor resist over melted crayon drawings
SUNCATCHERS AND STAINED GLASS:
- Tissue paper stained glass inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright (with Con-tact paper)
- Stained glass leaves and jack-o-lanterns
- Tissue paper stained glass (with waxed paper)
- Suncatchers and cutting string
- Tissue paper suncatchers and a tea party
- Stained glass hearts for Valentine’s Day
- So many kinds of stained glass!
MARBLING:
3-D ART:
- Plaster of paris and the best art group project ever!
- Scrap wood sculptures with the art group
- Wood sculptures part II
- Sandcasting with plaster of paris
- Getting 3-D: painting boxes
- Claydoh beads
- Making big beads with Maia
- Making Nature Prints in Sculpey and Flower Prints in Sculpey and in Playdough
- Painting and stuffing a fish
COLLAGE:
DRAWING:
- Melted crayon drawings (and watercolor resist)
- Drawing fruit from real life
- Body tracing and a new book
- Crayon Transfers on T-shirts (Trial Run, and with the Toddler Art Group)
OTHER:
- Rainbow in a Bag: A Color Mixing Experiment
- Bleeding tissue paper eggs and art
- Art project turned lunch (bread dough faces)
- A messy party with the art group
- Handmade paper shapes tutorial
- Felting eggs for the nature table
- Tissue paper candle holders — fun and beautiful
- Playdough
- Felt rocks
FOR ADULTS (mostly things to make for kids):
