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Painting Planets Craft
If we have any young painters and fans of outer space in the house, we have an out-of-this-world craft for you. Try out some fun techniques with paint to make a truly awesome painting. PRO TIP: Wear an old shirt or smock to protect your clothing and have fun!
Things you’ll need
- Some white paper
- One sheet of black construction paper
- Craft paint
- Scissors
- Jar lids, various sizes
- Pencil
- Paint brushes, foil, an old toothbrush
- Glue stick
Steps
Set up your pallet by choosing all of the colors you’d like to work with. Paint your base colors on your white paper.
-Stamp: Scrunch up some foil and dip it in paint. Stamp on top to get a marble texture.
-Dry Brush: Put some paint on a dry brush or a toothbrush and drag it on top. Leave the lines for a brushed effect.
-Layer: Layering wet on wet paint can create really cool swirls and patterns!
Once you’ve made some amazing paint techniques, set your paper aside to dry.
Stars: You can make a starry sky by dipping an old toothbrush in white paint and gently rubbing the bristles to splatter paint evenly on the black construction paper.
Stars another way: Dip both ends of a pencil in white paint and stamp it on your paper. PRO TIP: You can combine both techniques for lots of depth!
Trace some planets with a pencil using your jar lids as a template.
Cut them out and glue them down on your star background.
Wow! Look at your awesome galaxy! Nice job, everyone.
Enjoying some outer space themes? Check out Carl’s Car Wash and see if Carl can help Sparky clean his spaceship: Sparky’s Spaceship
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Constellations with the Saran Wrap Technique
To create these fantastic geometric constellations, we started with a wet wash on our thick OOLY watercolor paper.
Once the paper is nice and wet, it’s easy to blend the colors of your choice.
I encouraged my kids to continue to use LOTS of water as they painted; you really need a liquid base to have the best effect with the saran wrap technique.
After your paper is covered in some beautiful colors, scrunch up a big piece of plastic wrap on top of the paint.
It’s fun to experiment with different amounts of plastic and wrinkling techniques! Each painting will be totally different and totally gorgeous.
You can remove the plastic wrap once the paint is dry (about 1 hr). The wrinkled plastic creates all kinds of interesting lines and shapes in the paint, perfect for inspiring constellations.
Use a metallic sharpie and a ruler to connect a few lines, making dots or stars at each intersection. My kids loved creating their own unique constellations!
Thanks again to OOLY for sponsoring this post to help bring all these fun art activities to you and your family! We think OOLY watercolor products are high quality art supplies that your kids will enjoy using over and over again!
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