Creative Painting and Craft Ideas for Kids

Lockdown due to COVID-19 has given parents enough time with their kids. From cooking your kids’ favorite food to organizing various activities for them, parents can keep them engaged.

As moving out of the places is not an option at all, you can make your kids participate in various art and craft ideas to boost their creativity.

As colors appeal to the young minds more than anything else, allowing them to paint, draw and express is one way by which you can bring out the creativity in his mind.

These painting can be on paper, or even on kids’ wear dresses are you prefer. You can give your baby clothes a new look with these amazing painting ideas.

Here we have compiled some of the easiest yet creative ideas for kids painting and craft that you can try during the lockdown period.

•  Art Coasters

You can use old kids wear to allow them to come up with their imagination. You can give them space on your fridge. They can come up with different patterns to decorate the fridge. And when finally they see it every day, the excitement level is incomparable.

Also, in addition to the art, your kids can make use of decoupage glue for crafting the coasters.

• T-shirt Painting

It is an exciting way to give a new look to your baby wear dresses. Every wardrobe has some dresses that are not worn anymore. You can ask your kids to paint them in their favorite patterns using their favorite colors.

And when they finally wear the artwork they have created on their own, they feel delighted. The painting can be done with brushes, or can even be done with hands or fingerprints.

You can be sure to get a different pattern each time you wish to paint. Take help from various DIY ideas available online.

• Creating Wind Chime

Creating wind chime for gardens is a wonderful combination of art and music. As much as your kids love to paint, their real creativity can be put to use in making these wind chimes for the garden. They can play with beads and bells for giving it a beautiful effect.

Also, you can teach them to pour and paint method to give an effect of different shades. The same technique can also be used for painting the kids’ wear for a multicolor designing.

• Feet Painting

Give your kids the freedom to be themselves for a day. Allow them to paint using their feet. Play with varied colors and come up with unique designs each time.

However, your kids might spoil their babywear dresses during the process, but the smiles on their faces will compensate for all the loss. We are sure that your kids are going to have real-time fun while painting with feet.

These painted stripes can be used as a gift wrap later on. Isn’t it a great idea to keep your kids engaged?

• Rock Painting

When you hand over colors and brushes to your kids, they would love to paint practically everything. So, it would be better if you give them space and ideas so that they do not make the walls in the room or the floor their canvas.

Suggest them to draw different patterns on the rocks from the garden. They can draw insects, or face, and if they really know how to paint, you will be surprised by the level of creativity they are going to come up with.

Also, when they are finally done, you can keep their artwork in the drawing rooms so that they feel appreciated whenever they see those.

• Jar Painting

Even grownups can try their hands on the painting the jars or flower vase in their free time. But, when you allow your kids to paint these, you will surely get new ways and plenty of ideas flowing from their creative minds.

Also, from decorating the jars and the vases with thumbs to using leaves for decoration, just wait and watch the creativity flow.

• Painted Plates

Who knew that painting paper plates with food colors will be full of fun. Your kids will get a kick out of painting with these paper plate painting ideas. As the food colors are used, you can eat them off.

Isn’t it fun? They can even use the plates as a wall decoration. You cannot limit the kind of painting they want to pursue. Let them spoil their baby clothes in the process.

Parents are surely going to enjoy the site of their kids fully engaged in creating their masterpiece.

• Umbrella Painting

Who though granddad’s traditional black umbrella needs a new look before this lockdown. When you are finally out of ideas, ask your kids to show they creative instincts on the umbrella that has not been used since years.

Also, when their artwork will be showcased, they will feel appreciated. Let them brighten their rainy days with this colorful umbrella that they have created for themselves.

Art and craft has literally no boundaries. Right from when you start your day, and to finally when you doze off, you come across art in its various forms.

This lockdown period is a wonderful opportunity for the parents to inculcate in their kids the realization of real beauty, and how things can be transformed into something better with creative minds.

And, when you are finally done with spilling colors on the kid's dresses, shop for more just by sitting at your place.