Tag: Pastel

Simple art and craft – Salt Art

All mummies should have a ready stock of art and craft supplies for “rainy days”. Yes, rainy days or days when unexpected events happened, and you have to stay home with your kids. So, I really have to thank the mummy blogger at Ingspirations who shared her simple salt art idea and it saved my day when the kids were bored and had nothing to do at home.

The first intriguing thing that struck me was how salt can turn colour so easily by twirling a chalk or in my case, we ran out of chalk, and used pastel colours from Daiso. Continue reading “Simple art and craft – Salt Art”

Art – Black Paper gives amazing effect

Ever since I brought my kids to their very first art class in Wow Art Studio (see my post “Art can be so beautiful“), I realized that black paper really gives amazing effect to a drawing in pastels.  Hence, while I was shopping in Daiso, a $2 storewide shop in town, I saw that they sell pastels and it gave me the idea of getting some black construction papers for my kids to draw on.

Pastels and Black Paper

YH, at his age of 6, loves to draw Dinosaurs.  XX, at her age of 8, loves to draw Butterflies.

Colouring on black paper

With this pastels that resemble chalk, it can get a little messy with little hands rubbing against the drawn pictures as they move their hands around the paper.  Luckily, as the paper is black in colour, the messiness does not look as obvious as it is on white paper.

After they have completed their colourful drawings on black papers, I framed them up and asked the kids to use window markers to decorate the boring white border.

Here is how it looks like!  Great colour contrast against black background!

Art on frame

We had an afternoon of fun with this simple art work.

Now, this frame is up on our living room wall as a proud piece of decoration.

Try it with your kids!