I was reading my blog reader earlier this week, when I saw a great kid art project to create easy Hyacinth paintings come up in a round-up post, and my daughter (who happened to be passing my desk at the time) thought it was a great idea.
The original project involved using wine corks, but as we didn’t have any we used some round foam brushes from the craft store. I pulled up some photos of Hyacinths up on Google image search to show Thing 1, I drew the greenery, and she painted in all the flowers. She obviously enjoyed it as she did four of these paintings. :)
Here’s one of the pieces she did:
I was planning on suggesting a watercolour wash to colour the background, but then remembered I drew in washable markers. Next time.
If you have young children, Inner Child Fun has lots of other interesting projects, too. I have several bookmarked for upcoming art sessions.