Making a Mess aka Toddler Art

I am always looking for fun and easy art projects to do with the girls and I have been really diggin using Pinterest in my search. There are a ton of great ideas and I love being able to easily sort them to go back to later. Here are a few things we have made recently. 

Toilet Paper Roll Butterflies

Materials:

Toilet Paper Roll

Paint

Construction Paper

Googly Eyes

Pipe Cleaner (for antennae)

Glue 

Paint Brush

Scissors

Glue Gun (for pipe cleaner)

Painting with lot's of enthusiasm 

I had the girls paint their tube and then they decorated the wings I had pre-cut out (older kids could do this themselves but we are still working on cutting with E). When it was dry enough we glued on the wings, eyes, and antenna (the pipe cleaner needed to be hot glued so I did that myself)

Lettuce Flower Stamps

Materials:

Romaine Lettuce End (sliced off with knife)

White Construction Paper

Paint or Ink

I first saw this and thought it looked so pretty and one afternoon Evelyn asked if we could do an art project and I thought I would try it with what I had on hand. I think it would have turned out better with a larger head of lettuce than we had and ink instead of paint but the girls had a blast anyways and it turned out cute.  

Finished Project

 Toilet Paper Roll Circle Stamps 

Materials: 

White Construction Paper

Toilet Paper or Paper Towel Roll

Colored Paint

This was really easy and super fun. Zoë could hold it and stamp on her own really easily.

{Hmmm..... I am starting to see a little 

pattern with the whole toilet paper roll thing. 

Wow didn't realize so many of our art projects had that in common} 

Toilet Paper Roll Binoculars 

Materials:

2 Toilet Paper Rolls

Yarn

Hole Punch

Markers, paint, stickers (whatever you want to decorate with)

Hot Glue (stays better than regular glue)

Evelyn had a date with daddy to go to the zoo so while he got lunches packed and everything together we made some of these for her trip and she had so much fun looking at all her favorite animals with them. 

Adorable


Penguins

Materials:

Construction Paper (black, white, orange, blue)

Big Googly Eyes

scissors

Glue

For this I cut out all the pieces for Evelyn but an older child could do some of the cutting themselves. I showed her what it looked like put together and then just gave her all the pieces and let her do it on her own. Pretty easy and fun.