Canvas for Kids-Fun & Art
Summer Holidays is the best time for kids. It is a time to relax, wind up all their study matters and simply enjoy themselves. When they have too much time on their hands, we here the common sentences like “I’m too bored, I don’t have anything to dooooo!!!” Here is the answer. Offer your child a creative challenge with an exciting world of colors, painting, imagination and fun Canvas Art. Immediately, visit your nearby craft store and buy all the necessary things such as a pre-stretched canvas and painting materials. The easiest one for little hands to manage is a square piece, usually 12 x 12″. Now, you might be wondering what my child can do using canvas painting? There are a number of options your child can play with. A few of them are illustrated below.
Make Your Own Scrapbook:
Ask your child to look at some of the family photos in order to turn them into a scrapbook hanging on your wall. Then, let him start painting the canvas with his favorite colors and let it dry for sometime. It can be made simple or more decorative as you wish. You can also try pencil shading, stenciling, stamping, or hand lettering a title. After it is completed, stick all the pieces using a glue or viola. Now, your child is making a wonderful and memorable scrapbook to hang in his or her bedroom.
Your Favorites on the Wall:
If you have a teen age girl who is fond of magazines filled with articles of her favorite stars, movies and other such things, probably she might have started filling the house with piles of these magazines. To mange this, here is an excellent project for her. Allow your daughter to save the pictures of her favorite stars and then ask her to spread it on the canvas using acrylic paints. Let it dry for few hours. In the mean time, have your daughter cut out pictures of her favorite stars. Use decorative-edged scissors if you have them; if not, a twist of the wrist does nicely! At last, glue these articles on the canvas using some attractive pattern as per the artist. You can also decorate it with jewels, glitter, stickers and so on. Finish with decoupage glue in order to seal the project. In this way, your daughter can have a great collection of all her “faves”. They will last forever than the piles of cuttings of the magazines and your daughter will have all her favorites hanging on the wall.
Creating a Solar System:
In the past, ancient Greeks, Romans and Egyptians used this form of 3-D painting and your child can do it too. It is very simple. Just paint the canvas with your favorite colors and then, many of the 3-D light weight objects can be glued on it giving a fantastic appearance to your canvas painting. Using this method, you can create your own universe. Using a sponge, “stamp” paint your canvas with different shades of blue and allow it to dry for sometime. Use the foam balls, cut them into appropriate pieces so that they will look like planets and moons. When they dry, stick them to your canvas. Your child will have his own solar system on his wall. Also, you can use other objects like wooden cut outs.
Just Paint It!!! :
If you find hard to do all the above things, then you can just grab the canvas and start some craft painting on it. Using this option your child can create an artwork and he can be more creative , just as Picasso or he can be as deliberate as Seurat! For a small artist of your family, finger paintings can also work out. Add some sponge shapes for extra, easy, fun. The resulting masterpieces from this option can be a wonderful memory for you to hang on your own wall!
The options mentioned above are just the beginnings of all the possibilities that bloom from a simple, stretched piece of canvas art. Try these things or create your own canvas art masterpiece.