Rainbow Creations - Art and Craft for Children - Blog

Although this blog post may seem very much like a children's craft tutorial on how to make a bracelet, the purpose behind it is for children to so see that nature can be used creatively as inspiration for their jewellery making and arts and crafts generally. Autumn Leaves for Inspiration Here we made a bracelet that children can make themselves using the same pack of beads as previously used to make the blackberry inspired bracelets here. This time we chose brightly coloured beads which were the same colours as the autumn leaves. We threaded them to make a stretchy bracelet in this manner. DIY bracelet for children to make When learning to create, skills are needed which can be built upon, little by little, in the future. So here is the craft tutorial too! To make this style bracelet you will need a good length of round elastic (approx 1 meter) For children to make a bracelet like this, the holes in the beads must be large enough for the elastic to fit through ...

Staring at a bag of newly delivered children's beads for making bracelets, well staring into space really, as you do... Painted Wooden Beads Suddenly inspiration came to us for making some kid's bracelets with these beads, based on the art activity we did for Autumn . Blackberry Art for Children  How much those beads looked like blackberries - the colours were similar and the little painted dots looked like the light shining on to the bumped surface of the blackberries. So, using the colours of nature we selected similar coloured beads to the blackberry. Usually Autumn colours are associated with the falling leaves, such as the golden colours, the russets, reds, oranges, browns and yellows but here we have an Autumn bracelet that is different. For children to make this bracelet they will only need a few beads from the bag , depending on the size of their wrist. Kids beads for making bracelets - selected colours - purple, green and red Simply t...

Today we foraged for blackberries with the intention to collect and print with them. We wanted to experiment with different mediums for children's art in Autumn. Or aim was to reproduce the beautiful colours, textures and shapes found in blackberry bushes in the form of printmaking. First of all we needed to make a background collage of leaves for the blackberries to nestle into and hide between. We could have used some real blackberry leaves but but decided, after looking closely at the shape of the leaves of a blackberry bush we found a leaf in our our bag of mixed type artificial leaves which was so very similar, if not the same. To print the leaves we used the reverse of the leaf as the veins were raised, which meant that the detail would stand out more on the print. The leaf was painted with green paint , brushed on with a chubby paint brush for even coverage of the leaf. Once the paper was covered in leaf prints we decided a second shade of green would loo...