10 creative ideas for winter art projects for children

Explore the colours, shapes and sensations of the season with these winter art projects for children.

 

 

10 ideas for winter art projects for children

Today I invite you to try a winter art project with your children.

Here are ten ideas for inspiration which use the colours, shapes and senses of the season. Each link has more details.

 

:: Wrap up warm, pack a flask of cocoa and some hot water bottles, and head outdoors with a sketchpad and some watercolour paints to paint _en plein air_. This style of painting, made famous by Impressionist artists such as Monet, is done outdoors ‘in open air’, rather than in a studio. See what winter landscapes or aspects of nature you can capture in your sketch book.

:: create with frozen paint

:: make frosty pictures with oil pastels/wax crayons and watercolour paints

::paint on ice

:: make snowflakes with homemade clay

:: draw you own winter play town

:: build ice sculptures

:: use wintery colours to paint on tin foil

:: make colourful ice works using coloured salt

:: use spin art to make snowflakes