5 Ways to Immerse Your Child in Art

Immersing your child in visual art can be a joyful and enriching experience that fosters creativity, critical thinking, and self-expression. And let’s be honest, it’s another way to keep your kids busy doing something hands-on and screen-free! 

Here are our simple and fun — and Peekadoodle-approved  — ways to make the easiest child-centered art a part of your family’s everyday life in the coming months:

Your Sidewalk, Your Child’s Canvas

• Keep it simple: a paintbrush, any container + water (watch how the art evaporates)

• Sidewalk chalk dipped in water to make bold colors

• Big body sidewalk chalk drawings

Water Play for the Win 

• Toy car wash: water + enough dish soap to foam + a sponge in a large plastic container or pot (works with any plastic toy)

• Color factory: transparent plastic cups or containers full of water + food coloring in primary colors — encourage child to pour and mix

Family Art Gallery 

• Dedicate a space in your home — even a portion of a wall — and encourage your children to hang their work up at their eye level, in a way that makes sense for them as “curators”

• Once the artworks are hung, ask your child to take you on a “gallery tour”

• Extra credit: Make a large collaborative drawing — think poster board size — that the entire family creates together

Kitchen Creations

• Salt dough

• Ooblek

• Baking soda and vinegar

Groovy Beach Art

• Mandala

• Beach rock painting

• Spell your name with found beach objects