Drawing and Craft Lessons for Kids

Drawing and craft is fascinating to a lot of kids all over the world. The reality is that it does not discriminate against any color, race, tribe, country and what have you. It is an activity that is simple, straightforward and easy to engage in.  Kids drawing and craft activities do not need to be complex before kids can have fun. There are simple drawing lessons and crafts that kids can engage in to develop their mental and psychomotor skills.  With materials such as watercolors, clay, pastels and other resources that can easily be obtained, there can be endless drawing and crafts that can be done.

Drawing lessons for kids and Beginners

Drawing is an interesting art and here are some drawing lessons that even beginners can learn. There is a need for papers, drawing pads, sketchbooks, and so on.

Drawing the Contour or Outline of an Object 

As a beginner, drawing might be a little arduous as you do not know where to begin. To learn contour drawing, get a fruit and place it on a paper. Place it properly so as to give you the desired shape while drawing the contour. Take your pencil and trace the outline of the fruit by starting from the top until you get to the bottom to create the outline. Allow your hand and eyes to move around all the sides of the shape in order to create the perfect outline. The line of the outline should be light no matter the type of line used. You can combine long and short lines as you make the outline and don’t fret if you make errors but erase them and become better at it. Natural object drawing is easy and you don’t have to worry if you got it right or not.

Shading for Beginners

You might have drawn some images but do not know how to shade the image to make it look better. Here is how to shade as a beginner. Take note of the reflection of light on the image and start using your person to create a highlight. Make it as light as possible. You can also use the tip of your pencil to shade the areas in your images or you can use the side of your pencil to shade the image. The most vital aspect is your ability to be creative, explore and have fun as you go through the process of learning to shade.

Soft Pencil Sketching

For this drawing lesson, you can use a 2B pencil to draw on a sketchbook. This type of paper’s surface is smooth, directional with an apparent vertical grain. The best way to share is with the side of the pencil to derive an attractive texture while on the drawing activity. The aim is to produce a unique output without the use of sharp lines from tbs pencil.

Watercolor Painting

Painting is an aspect that is fascinating and interesting in drawing activities as  the colors mix together to create an aesthetic art. Kids can create a big, beautiful watercolor art piece. You can begin with the painting on a canvas, paper, or whatever drawing paper with black lines and then add numerous colors as the activity progresses.

Alternative Painting Ideas

This craft idea might seem impossible without paints or coloring tools. However, kids can explore the use of other alternative paints such as food colouring, mixed coffee, mixed fruits and vegetable colors, spice mixtures to form colors and so many more. This is a creative way to make painting fun. There are other natural materials that can serve as paints around their environment.

Craft Lessons for kids of all ages Clay Flower Bouquets

For the creation of this craft, the supplies needed are; cardboard (8×8 pieces), paint of diverse colors, painted paper (3×8 pieces) for the table, leaves, flower vase, pencil, model magic, paint brush, glue and scissors. This is a stunning art activity that kids will love to engage in. The lesson goes like this; paint the cardboard with a color of your choice and allow the air to dry it off. The painted paper is added to be like a table and put the vase on the top. The model magic is then used to create the flowers and petals which should be curved, rounded, circle shape or even pointed to make it look great. The center of the flower should be pushed in order to attach the clay to the board. Allow the clay to get dry and use your glue to hold it to the flower at the back. So, use diverse colors, especially lighter colors to give the flowers a nice shade at the beginning. Afterwards, use dark colors to enhance the craft aesthetics. Use the scissors to cut the painted leaves and creatively use it to beautify the clay flower bouquet craft, creativity, exploration and fun adds to the magic.

Mosaic colorful craft 

Kids love colors and are easily attracted to whatever depicts lots of color. This simple art activity isn’t difficult to carry out as it doesn’t require any exclusive materials. All that is needed is colorful paper with scissors and glue to hold them together. To be more creative, get an old magazine and cut into many pieces with the scissors. The diverse pieces from the magazine can be used to create the mosaic colorful craft work by using a quality glue to make them stick on the colorful paper. Kids can also make use of a rainbow kit to create beautiful colors on the colored paper that attract and fascinates everyone that comes across it.

Finger Painting

This is a drawing craft that kids can easily create. It is interesting, fascinating and unique.This art involves how creative kids can be in using their hands or fingers to paint. Dip your fingers into the paints or ink and place your fingers on the paper to create dots, stripes and so on. The positioning of the hand is based on the object to be drawn which could be animals, trees, eggs, characters and other images. You can learn how to use a color in painting by coloring by number.

I believe this content has enlightened and educated you on how to draw and create crafts. Try these drawing lessons and craft at your own time and you will be happy for it. Enjoy!