How to Create Exciting Art and Craft Activities For Children

Visual Art is one avenue where people of every race and creed can express themselves. Children, in particular, tend to crave this vehicle of expression as they go through the artistic stages: scribbling, pre-schematic, schematic, and visual realism. Each stage is vital to the child’s development, and artistic expression should be encouraged as much as possible.

Table of Contents 

Introduction 
Chapter 1 – Crayon Resist 
Materials needed 
Technique 
Chapter 2 - Printmaking 
Chapter 3 - Mono printing using Styrofoam meat trays 
Materials needed: 
Technique 
Chapter 4 - Leaf printing 
Using crayons 
Technique 
Leaf printing using paint 
Technique 
Chapter 5 - Stenciling 
Materials needed: 
Method 
Chapter 6 - Exploring Line Designs 
Line Quality 
Technique 
Chapter 7 – Wall Hanging using Discarded Tissue Roll 
Technique: 
Chapter 8 - Designs using shapes 
Method 
Chapter 9 - Tie and Dye 
Tying methods 
The dye bath 
Chapter 10 - Mask Making 
Creating a mask 
Method 
Mask #2 
Chapter 11 - Mosaics 
Method 
Conclusion 
Author Bio 
Publisher 

Introduction 

Visual Art is one avenue where people of every race and creed can express themselves. Children, in particular, tend to crave this vehicle of expression as they go through the artistic stages: scribbling, pre-schematic, schematic, and visual realism. Each stage is vital to the child’s development, and artistic expression should be encouraged as much as possible. Parents and teachers sometimes stifle this creative side of children by not providing opportunities for artistic expression. It is sometimes due to their lack of knowledge or fear of the subject. 

This book will highlight ten art topics that can be used at home or in the classroom to encourage artistic expressions and spark creativity in children and interested adults.