I am excited to be offering 30 days of fun crafts to keep kids active and entertained this summer! You won’t want to miss a day of these fun crafts for kids from some amazing bloggers! Please be sure to pay them a visit!

 

Greeting friends! Jessica here from scrumdilly-do! I am delighted to share with you a project I did in my first grade class with a visiting art teacher. We created our circles with black paint and used crayon to add our color. I recently happened upon my happy paper of circles and thought how much fun it would be to revisit it with brighter colors and markers for a more fine line feel to it all. Are you ready? The beauty of this project is that you can let your kiddos go wild with color or you can limit their color palette to all one color or two colors, complimentary colors or more. You can make this on a L A R G E scale or a teeny tiny scale, it all depends on the circumference (lookie, I have even supplied you with new vocabulary words) of your largest circle.

 

 Materials 
large sheet of sturdy weight paper
acrylic or tempera paint in three shades of one color
shallow dish or paper plate
assortment of cylindrical containers such as yogurt containers, paper cups, etc
markers

Set up your plates with your paint. Here we used two shades of blue and
two different sized containers. Dip your container into the paint. And
make a print on your paper.

 

 

Repeat the printing process until you have covered your paper with a circus of paint-happy circles. Here is where you can change it up by using only one color, two colors or a trio of happy colors.

 

 

 
 Gather your markers and get to doodling. You can have your kiddo stick with dots or stripes or they can jazz up the spaces with squiggles and stars. Use all the colors in the markers pack or use just one or two colors.
Your kiddos can make one ENORMOUS piece of art or several all summer long. Try making one in each color of the rainbow. Save the artwork and repurpose it as gift wrap. Make a tiny print using a drinking straw for your circles and toothpicks dipped in watercolor for your designs. Happy summer!

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  1. Have been wanting to do some doodling on fabric, this gives me courage to try and maybe on an old piece of furniture too. WOW!!! I’m realygetting inspired. Thanks

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  3. Great Idea! I do crafts with the elderly at a retirement center. I can’t wait to do this with them!

  4. Thank you for sharing this…we did this today in my crafts class in summer school and my kids had the best time making beautiful works of art…thank you again for sharing.

  5. Thank you for this idea I plan on using it for a Zen drawing to put on canvas and hang on the wall.

  6. This is great! I don’t know any kids but my library does crafts with kids so I will give them this idea. I might even join them
    Thanks a lot.

  7. What a great idea! I am always trying to come up with art type projects…this is wonderful! Thanks for sharing!

  8. Great fun project and so easy. Thaqniks for shaqring. I will try this with my 7 year old grand daughter when she visits this fall from Australia. I have been building up an arsenal of projects and things to do with her. Maureen

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