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Dot Art on Canvas (large scale or small!) Pointillism art with cottons swabs may sound complicated but is actually super simple and kids LOVE it. Dip a cotton swab into liquid watercolors and make dots to your heart’s content! Photo by Jean Van’t Hul 2. If you want to dive into some dot art, try one of these ideas! Dot Art Ideas for Kids Photo by Andrea Martelle 1.

Poking (poke toothpicks into playdough or clay, for example).

Rubbings (over a lego plate or a grill pan).

Collage (with stickers, paper, pasta shapes, beans).

Printing (with bubble wrap, Legos, or muffin tins).

Painting (with Q-tips, cotton balls, or brushes, big or small).

Drawing (with markers, crayons, Do-a-Dot markers).

It’s hard to go wrong! Just keep your vacuum nearby to clean up the small shavings.Dots are an effective and interesting art component and there are many ways to make them. If you like leaving notes, or have a kid who likes drawing small pictures, a scratch art notepad may be a good choice! We love this one, and love that you can get different shapes and theme options. The colors and designs are gorgeous! Scratch Art Notepad We just found these at a specialty toy store and I instantly fell in love with the Djeco scratch art cards! They are stunning! I’d recommend these for elementary-aged kids or advanced preschoolers who love to create patterns. We love giving these away as birthday presents, kids really enjoy them!įor the record, Melissa and Doug also make a great variety pad with different options! When I realized an entire set is a better deal, we purchased a three-pack set. They’re more colorful and come with well-designed pictures beneath the scratch surface. I purchased a single Melissa and Doug scratch art book ( this one to be exact) and loved that it’s a little different than your standard scratch art book.

Those are the ones personally purchased and my kids have really enjoyed! Melissa and Doug Scratch Art I’m sure you can’t go wrong with any high-rated book. Super Scratch Art Pads (perfect for older kids!) We love the activity books and the sketch books! Scratch and Sparkle books (perfect for younger kids!). My kids love that many scratch art books have a glitter scratch art paper as well as rainbow scratch art paper. It’s a more structured approach often with activities to complete. I’ve purchased a handful of scratch art books with activities and pictures. We’re fans of getting a stack of scratch art paper and letting kids create whatever they’d like! Scratch Art Book This is primarily what we’ve purchased, and what I talked about earlier. Scratch Art Ideas and Activity Options Scratch Art Paper Here are the different ways we’ve purchased scratch art for kids. It was a-ha moment that kids of all ages enjoy this activity. He began to scribble little doodles and giddy squeal! In addition, we had a teenage babysitter come and ask if she could also use the scratch art paper while she did art time with our kids. The shock of my life came when my baby who was 18 months old discovered his brother’s quiet time kid’s table and found the scratch art paper. I have continued to buy scratch art pads as a treat and gift for my son. But I found a quick vacuum picked everything right up in a minute. I could not believe how much he loved it! The only downside was the scratch art does leave a few black shavings.

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(Here’s how to do quiet time for kids if you’re interested). When my oldest one three, I bought a scratch art notepad on a Black Friday deal as a quiet time activity. Their little smiles as they see what colors lie beneath the paper makes it so much fun! I can tell this same excitement for an easy art project that reveals so much color and creativity yields similar emotions for my kids. It must have been a brand new product at the time, and it felt like pure magic! All it took was the right paper and a wood scratch art pencil, and I was set for magic! The way the rainbow scratch art revealed whatever I wanted to draw was one of my most joyful and vivid school memories as a kid! I can remember being a child and a teacher passing out scratch art paper for a school project.

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