Saturday, January 24, 2009

Indoor Fun for Kids


One of the things I love the most is to create a fun art project to do with the kids, especially when they are bored and stuck inside. Recently I created stamps for them. Here's how it's done.
Using a craft knife, cut out shapes from foam sheets, mount them on thicker foam sheets to make a stamp (I just used the sticky-backed foam sheets and stuck them three layers thick).



We used paintbrushes and painted the stamps with different colors, but you can also use paint that has been rolled onto a glass sheet or acrylic sheet or even just a sheet of aluminum foil.

Then, just press the foam stamp into the paint and create lovely pictures! We had dinosaurs, trains, lions, butterflys, ladybugs, trucks and lots of other cool things.

Here are some examples on an old, gray t-shirt:


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