Craft Ideas for Each day

Monday 3/16

1. Let’s practice our drawing skills…all you need is paper of any kind and your choice of writing tool: pen, pencil, marker, crayon…

Here are some drawing prompts to encourage you:

- Draw your pet(s)- Draw your family members with things that are important to

them.- Draw a self-portrait of what you think you’d look like in 20 years

or 50 years, or both!- Draw an animal playing a musical instrument- Combine 3 existing animals to create a new creature!- Draw a slice of the best pizza you have ever seen- Create your own restaurant: Draw the restaurant, your executive

chef and a 12 item menu - Draw 2 sports figures—one in an action pose and one standing

still- Draw your dream car or house or both! - Draw your favorite Bible verse or Bible story

Tuesday 3/17

Create a small 3-D sculpture using household materials like paper towel or toilet paper tubes, colored paper, or cardboard

Ideas:

- Create a house or village like the image shown above

- Create a cardboard or paper face of your favorite animal like the image above

- Create a 3-D rolled paper sculpture

- Use a tissue box or other small box to make a barn or other kind of building

- Use a toilet paper tube as the body for a butterfly

- Make a sculpture of your favorite flower or plant

Wednesday 3/18

Ideas:

- Draw 10 black and white pictures to create your own coloring book; Consider making all 10 pictures a certain theme: different Bible stories, kinds of transportation, animals, insects, places to visit

- Make and use your own sketchbook to practice your drawing 😊

- Go outside to draw or paint…observe what you see. What is your favorite thing in nature? What details do you notice? Think about the elements (building blocks) of art: line, color, shape, value, form, texture, and space

- Make a drawing or card of your choice for a friend or family member that lives far away from you…and actually mail it to them!

- Observe a piece of furniture or room in your house…draw it as detailed as you can!

Thursday 3/19

Painting idea…if you do not have watercolors or washable paints at home, markers or crayons will work too! 😊

Tape Resist painting: Use strips of blue painters tape or masking tape to cover the paper in certain areas, paint over the tape and the rest of the paper, let dry, carefully remove the tape, and enjoy!

**if you are using watercolor, you can sprinkle salt on top of wet watercolor and it will create a neat effect/reaction!

Friday 3/20

https://www.powerfulmothering.com/easy-homemade-clay-recipe/

Exploration with Clay!

Above is a link for an easy homemade clay recipe. If you have modeling clay at home or even play-doh those can be used too of course! 😊

Sculpture ideas:

- A park including a playground, lake, and anything else you’d like to include

- An animal you would only find at the zoo

- Your favorite dessert or sweet treat

- Your family or friends

- A place in North Carolina you have visited

- A place anywhere in the world you’d love to visit!

- An invention of a tool we could use in school…be creative!

- The setting of your favorite book

Monday 3/23

Finish the Picture Prompts

Using a piece of paper draw one of the following suggestions above on your paper first (or one of your own ideas) and then finish your picture into something! Be creative! Trade with your brother or sister!

Can it be a flower or plant?

A piece of sports equipment?

A unique animal?

A building?

A piece of clothing?

A person?

Something abstract?

Tuesday 3/24

Artist Trading Cards

Using any kind of paper, cut or have your parents help you cut it to be 2.5 inches by 3.5 inches or roughly the size of a playing card

Create mini pieces of art that you can later trade with friends at school!

The ideas are endless…draw yourself or things that represent you like your interests, hobbies, etc

- Your favorite Bible verse, Bible story or WCA’s theme: Matthew 5:16 #BetheLight

- A spring scene- As many patterns as you can create in the tiny space!

Wednesday 3/25

Shaving Cream Paper Marbling…time to get a little messy…maybe lay down a tablecloth or go outside 😊

These turn out beautifully and can be used for cards or can even be framed or hung as wall art…works best with thicker paper like construction paper or cardstock if you have it.

1. Spray shaving cream onto a foil lined baking dish, aluminum tray or similar pan.

2. Level out shaving cream with spatula.3. Squirt food coloring or acrylic paint onto surface of shaving cream.4. Swirl designs into your shaving cream.5. Lay paper down and pat it gently so all of paper is covered on

underside with shaving cream/paint.6. Gently pull off paper and lay down with shaving cream side up.7. Scrape off shaving cream with ruler and let dry.

Thursday 3/26

Let’s incorporate STEAM and build some recycled art…check your recycling bin for materials!

Here are some ideas for recycled art projects:

1. Garden decoration from recycled water bottles

https://www.cbc.ca/parents/play/view/water-bottle-wind-spirals

2. Egg Carton flowers…can use a straw for the stem

3. Come up with your own idea!!

Friday 3/27

Mini Banjos made from jar lids, popsicle sticks and string/rubber bands…decorate however you’d like

Jellyfish made from paper bowls, neon or any kind of paint and string

I hope you all enjoyed these ideas I’ve compiled from various sources found online. I am available via email for questions and I would love to see pictures of your child’s creations. Don’t stress…this art at home is meant to be fun and a creative outlet. Don’t go out and buy anything, be resourceful with what you have.

Thank you,

Lauren Schaaf