Nature Paint Brushes

No paintbrush? No problem! Look around at what nature can provide! Get the kiddos outdoors and collect items you find to make your own homemade nature brushes. Painting with nature paint brushes is fun and easy to do. All you need are a few simple materials for do-able preschool art projects for kids!

NATURE PAINTING FOR KIDS

NATURE ACTIVITIES FOR KIDS

This project is a great one for helping children explore many things. They can spend time outdoors, exploring their surroundings. They get to feel and smell natural items they choose as their ‘brushes’. They can also spend time playing with new textures, patterns, colors, and more!

Kids who spend time in nature are better learners. Exposure to nature has been shown to reduce stress and increase attention spans. When children are out in nature they are immersed in a new environment with endless opportunities for exploration and development.

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More Nature Inspired Art & Crafts To Try

Adding nature to your art projects can be a fun and creative way to incorporate mixed media techniques. Whether you use real items from nature or create your own nature-inspired scene, try one of the easy art projects for kids below.

WHY DO ART WITH KIDS?

Children are naturally curious. They observe, explore, and imitate, trying to figure out how things work and how to control themselves and their environments. This freedom of exploration helps children form connections in their brain, it helps them learn—and it’s also fun!

Art is a natural activity to support this essential interaction with the world. Kids need the freedom to explore and experiment creatively.

Art allows children to practice a wide range of skills that are useful not only for life but also for learning. These include the aesthetic, scientific, interpersonal, and practical interactions that can be discovered through the senses, intellect, and emotions.

Making and appreciating art involves emotional and mental faculties!

Art, whether making it, learning about it, or simply looking at it – offers a wide range of important experiences.
In other words, it’s good for them!

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PAINTING WITH NATURE PAINT BRUSHES

SUPPLIES:

Paper
Acrylic paint
Items from nature (pine straw, sticks, leaves)

INSTRUCTIONS:

STEP 1: Look around outside and see what items might work well as a paintbrush, stamp, sponge, etc. For smaller items, gather them together and bind with string to make your own homemade paint brushes.