5 Art Projects to Do With Your Kids This Fall

Want a little more art in your life? You don’t have to be a great artist to inspire great art in your homeschool with these fun projects.

5 Art Projects to Do With Your Kids This Fall

1. Make alphabet art drawings.

Practice handwriting and hone creativity with this project inspired by Stuart Davis: Turn the alphabet into art by connecting letters and filling them in. Directions here >>

2. Paint a mixed media collage.

Use analogous colors to create a bold background, then craft a hot-air balloon from painted tissue paper. Spread this one out over a couple of days. Directions here >>

3. Create a camouflage lizard.

Grab a packet of scrapbook paper or old wallpaper samples, then try to paint, color, or craft a lizard that will blend into your chosen background. Directions here >>

4. Make coffee filter rainbows.

Use markers to draw patterns on coffee filters, then spray them thoroughly with water to make the colors run together. This would be a fun way to make tie-dye place cards for Thanksgiving. Directions here >>

5. Paint a month-long mural.

Divide a canvas into 30 rectangles, and stockpile blue, black, and white paint. Each day, mix a color that looks like that day's sky, and paint one square. At the end of the month, you’ll have an artistic record of your sky-gazing.

This was originally published in the fall 2019 issue of HSL.


Amy Sharony

Amy Sharony is the founder and editor-in-chief of home | school | life magazine. She's a pretty nice person until someone starts pluralizing things with apostrophes, but then all bets are off.

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