- Draw - with pencils, charcoal, crayons, chalk, oil pastels, felt pens, pen and ink, watercolour pencils, metallic pencils
- Paint - with poster paints, watercolours, gouache, acrylics, chinese inks, oils, pureed food...
- Collage - with patterned paper, scrap paper, tissue paper, crepe paper, dried beans and seeds, magazine images, photographs, fabric scraps, wallpaper, wrapping paper, 3D recyclables...
- Print - finger, hand, foot, sponge, rubber stamps, wood blocks, vegetables...
- Use/create stencils and templates - try polystyrene pizza bases, acetate sheets (OHP sheets) etc.
- Create origami
- Make papier mache constructions, masks, bowls etc.
- Sculpt air drying clay or salt dough - try slabwork, colied pots, 3D relief plaques, statuettes...
- Create 3D structures with recyclables - cars, robots, space ships...
- Paint on glass or ceramic - use cheap picture frames with intact glass or try surplus plain tiles
- Scrapbook - old fashioned or modern fancy (in 3D or virtually)
- Cartoon - classic, Manga, Disney... create by hand or do some web-based cartooning
- Scoubidou - friendship bracelets, keyrings, zipper pulls etc.
- Hama beads - for stringing into necklaces etc. or for bonding into wall artwork
- Pipe cleaner creations - people, animals etc. clothe them with crepe and tissue paper outfits
- Decorate blown eggs
- Create a poster - wanted, product advertising, promotional etc.
- Crochet - start small and go from there (Youtube can teach you)
- Knit (ditto)
- Sew - pillowcase dresses, cushion covers, adapted jackets and trousers, holdalls etc.
- Decorate cakes... and biscuits... and bread... and pancakes... and sweets...
- Cut silhouettes
- Make cards - pop up, flat, personalised, generic, thank you, birthday, festival, e-cards...
- Design flags
- Design coats of arms
- Design clothes
- Design a postage stamp
- Design a map
- Design a vehicle
- Design jewellery
- Design buildings
- Design furniture
- Make glove puppets
- Make stick puppets
- Make finger puppets
- Make marionettes
- Make sock puppets
- Make and decorate junk musical instruments
- Do a staged self portrait - paint, pencil, camera...
- Create textural paintings - glitter, sand, salt, 3D paint...
- Quilling
- Beading - decorate a purse or bag or customise a sweater or jacket
- Mosaic -with paper, old pottery mosaic tiles, etc as well as the real thing
- Make and decorate cookies - little ones through to giant cookies
- Make dioramas
- Make cardboard box buildings - houses, hospitals, civic buildings, shops, dens...
- Lino cutting and printing
- Vegetable printing
- Bark and leaf rubbing
- Tie dye
- Applique
- Photograph... and maybe digitally alter or embellish the imagery
- Weaving (wool, ribbons, paper)
- Batik
- Basketry
- Press flowers
- Make crowns, decorate bonnets and craft paper hats
- Paper plate projects
- Decorate clay pots, pebbles, plain garden ornaments.
- Design a board game
- Design a Top Trumps set
- Make stationery organisers and magazine holders
- Create a themed mobile
- Do cross stitch
- Do finger knitting
- Make felt jewellery
- Make bead jewellery
- Make dolls and teddies clothes
- Sculpt using wire armatures and modroc
- Make Fimo (or equivalent) jewellery, figurines, trinkets...
- Create a comic, magazine or book - for real or virtually
- Make paper dolls, animals and clothes
- Embroidery - by hand or machine based, following a pattern or not
- Make sock animals
- Make cushions, aprons, slippers, simple clothing
- Make dried bean and lentil pictures
- Make paper flowers
- Make wooden spoon puppets and peg dolls
- Make doll furniture
- Make party items - bunting, crackers, paperchains etc.
- Make paper snowflakes
- Use fabric paints to personalise fabric shoes
- Make photo montages
- Design a website or blog
- Use an on-line art interactive
- Create a stop motion film
- Macrame
- Make a movie
- Make a music video
- Do grafitti
- Use image editing software
- Paint Warhammer figures
- Customise your LEGO minifigs
- Create a construction set sculpture (LEGO, Knex etc)
- Build with conventional wooden blocks/architectural blocks
- Replicate an Old Master or colour in an Old Master outline
- Carve sculptures from wood or brieze blocks
- Make a rag rug
- Make some patchwork
- Calligraphy, hieroglyphics, illuminated manuscript...
Saturday, 9 February 2013
100 Home Education Art Projects
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Good ideas Angela, they also reminded me about paper making. Thanks.
DeleteMake candles? When I was a kid I had a candle making set and you could colour each layer separately or add scents and things like glitter. I also had a set of plain candles to decorate with (I think) some special pens. I still have the one my little brother decorated for me. :)
ReplyDeleteAlso, on the cake front (because you know how I love cakes) you can get food colour pens (I have some) so you can draw directly onto icing. We've had fun doing this.
I'm glad you mentioned batik. I did that at school and was so impressed that I then went home and did it in my bedroom with some fabric paints and candle wax. It looked so cool. I must remember to do it with Nookie when she's older. :)
aNonyMous @ Radical Ramblings
Great suggestions aNony. I've never done candle making but strangely enough you reminded me of doing art with coloured sand (filling bottles in layers or sprinkiling it over glue). Oh yeah, the food colouring pens are a good idea too - we've not used those yet so will have to seek some out. Thanks.
DeleteWe did Candles the other week at a home ed group. Rainbow layered in a jam jar from old candles. You can add crayons to white candles for colouring.
ReplyDeleteOoh, good idea Angela! We have a bunch of cheap crayons just waiting to be repurposed (they aren't really that good at their intended purpose). I'm pretty certain I have an old saucepan in the shed that will serve as a melting container. Thanks for the suggestion.
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