Summer Craft

Lady Bug & Flowers Watercolor

Materials Needed

Watercolors, paintbrushes, watercolor paper, pencils, flower references (if necessary), black pen or sharpie.

Have the children draw a garden with flowers and lady bugs

Have the children draw a garden with flowers and lady bugs

Paint the photo you drew with water colors

Paint the photo you drew with water colors

Once dry, outline with pen

Once dry, outline with pen.

Final Product - Lady Bug & Flowers!

Animal Landscape Collage

Try this fun collage! Click through the slide show for complete instrucitons.

Materials Needed

Art tissue paper, glue, water, paint brush, scissors, cup

Decide which animal landscape you would like to create--We chose a lion! Try and think of animals with features that would be easy to recreate (hippo, pig, dog, giraffe)

Start creating your background using light colors for the sky etc. This is a great time to explain the where the foreground, middle-ground, and background are!

Start creating your background using light colors for the sky etc. This is a great time to explain the where the foreground, middle-ground, and background are!

Start creating your foreground, keeping the placement of the animal in mind.

Add your animal! Start with their head/body first.

Start adding simple details like eyes, mouth, nose.

Start adding simple details like eyes, mouth, nose.

Final Product - Animal Landscape Collage

Summer Craft Fun

Beautiful abstract painting using marbles.

Materials Needed:

Marbles, paint, cup, white paper, plastic spoons

Step 1

Have the children dip the marbles into the paint.

Step 2

Have the children scoop the marbles out of the paint into their own cup

Step 3

Flip the cup upside down so the rim is on the white paper

Step 3 continued

Flip the cup upside down so the rim is on the white paper

Step 3 continued

Flip the cup upside down so the rim is on the white paper

Step 4

Move the cup around in a chaotic manner so the marbles are moved throughout the paper creating a spin art effect!

Step 5

Results with 1 color. Repeat the process with different colors.

Final Product

Beautiful abstract marble painting!

Finished Product

Create this beautiful cypress landscape by following the directions in this slideshow.

Click the right arrow to begin>>

Materials Needed

Chalk (White or colored),
Tempera Paint (any color, 1 color or more),
1 sheet white paper,
1 sheet purple paper,
1 sheet brown paper,
and a pencil.

Step 1

Using a pencil, draw a curvy line on the brown paper to represent the foreground. Do the same for the purple paper for the hills mountains. Cut both out.

Step 2

To add a cypress tree, use some of the darker paper scraps and cut out a shape resembling a cypress. Use the chalk and paint technique or a crayon to apply the dark green color.

Step 3

Starting with the sky, dip chalk into either white or colored tempera paint to create swirling lines. Only paint until the top of the “mountains”.

Step 4

You can either use a colored piece of chalk dipped into white tempera, or white chalk dipped in colored tempera. Either works fine. Some kids can’t resist the urge to dip their fingers into the mess. It looks great, so let them!

Finished Product!