Chinese Lanterns

Color-In Chinese Lanterns Craft

Get ready for Chinese New Year!  Learn how to create lanterns can help students work with form and color to create these awesome, decorative projects. We’ll show you the step by step process using our R22021 Color-In Chinese Lanterns and our R55009 Shape Sponges! Age: 5+ Duration: 20 minutes You’ll Need: • R22021 Color-In Chinese Lanterns…

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Bug Sculptures

Use water to sculpt life-like insects! This ingenious technique using 100% recycled material will create beautiful 3D designs that your students will be proud to call their art! Before starting, make sure you lay down newspapers or a paint tray onto your working surface. This will help keep the water in one area for easy…

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Mother Rising blog uses our Color Diffusing Leaves!

I absolutely adore the variety of designs that the Color Diffusing Leaves can be used to make. No two are alike–literally! This beautiful assortment of leaves were made from watercolor paint diffusion. Wendy published this craft post on September 24, 2008. To read more about the post entitled, “Celebrating Autumn” click here! A neat addition…

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This Little Class of Mine uses our Color Diffusing Paper!

Used to make ocean backgrounds for these adorable squid characters, Color Diffusing Paper was combined with paint and bit of salt to create neat bubbly water effects! This activity was part of a literacy/art class that studied a fun children’s book, I’m the Best Artist in the Ocean by Kevin Sherry. The squid on the front cover was…

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Drip Drip Splatter Splash uses our Color Diffusing Paper!

Create awesome effects on Color Diffusing Paper! The Drip, Drip, Splatter, Splash blog posted their butterfly artwork which used Color Diffusing Paper, permanent marker and watercolor paints. The post was published on April 17, 2013 and is entitled, “Butterfly Art.” Click here to visit the page! Using permanent marker helps to create definite lines that…

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Craft Spotlight: Paint Bellows

Explore a new painting technique with Paint Bellows! These neat little painting tools feature an accordion-style chamber to help push paint out in a splatter-like design.  A few drops of tempera paint go a long way with this painting tool! First, press out all the air from the Paint Bellows chamber. To do this, squeeze…

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Butterfly Day at the Art Junction!

The amazing art community at the Art Junction made butterfly crafts using our R2450 Bug Bodies during one of their family days! See more of their brilliant artwork at the Art Junction blog!  The Bug Bodies were combined with painted coffee filters to make the bug wings. Antennae were formed from pipe cleaners that were…

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Craft Spotlight: Masterpiece Fingerpaint Frames

Make a work of art out of every fingerpainting session! Simply slip students’ fingerpaint artwork underneath any one of our R75421 Masterpiece Fingerpainting Frames.  Each of the Masterpiece Fingerpainting Frame packages comes with special fingerpaint paper that slips perfectly into each of the frames. Use regular fingerpaint on the paper. To enhance students’ sensory awareness,…

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Craft Spotlight: Fingerpaint Sensations Kit

Our safe-to-use additives provide a pop of sensation to your painting projects! A great way to encourage fine motor play in special needs classrooms. Simply pop in one additive to one color of paint and let the fun begin! Each additive is packaged separately so you can control how much of each you want to…

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