Tips for How-To Teach Your Child Art

Creating Art means your Child can dive into a world full of opportunities for creative and critical thinking and build their fine motor skills. Let's dive into 5 simple and fantastic tips for How-To Teach Your Child Art to ensure this new adventure is successful and becomes a new routine and passion in your home.

Create an Art Tub and Keep Art Supplies Organized 

The easier you make art accessible in your home, the more likely it will become part of your home and used frequently. The easier it is to grab the supplies, set-up, and put away, the more likely it will be used. My recommendation is to create a tub or bin that you keep all your supplies together in. 

Things to put in your art tub:
-Card Stock paper (get one whole pack and put it at the bottom as it is the heaviest thing.)
-Felt Markers
-Wax Crayons
-Oil Pastels
-Watercolor Paints & brushes
-Plastic Table cloth you re-use every time

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This is really all kids need to make art! Don't be intimidated by fancy art supplies in hobby or art stores. They are nice but are not necessary for exploring art and when you just want to encourage your kids to create, you can do A LOT with this list. To learn how-to use them and se what I mean, join my FREE Family Art night and I will show your family how to make Robots using wax crayons and felt markers. I promise they will LOVE this, so click here to sign up now and stream it in your home.

Limit Art Mediums to a Handful

It is not necessary to spend a ton of money and buy everything and tons of sets from an art store for your kids to make art. This is not necessary and it won't make your kids love art anymore. Kids just want to make art and have fun! It is better to limit them to the handful of art mediums I suggested (wax crayons, felt markers, oil pastels, and watercolor paints) and have them learn and explore how they interact and can be used together and in many ways.

Each of those mediums can be used in a range of techniques and ways and it is better for kids to be confident in using 4 mediums to make amazing art that they can do in reasonable time (for example, oil paints take a very long time to dry, art permanent, are complicated for kids (or beginners), etc.) and to be honest, kids just want to make. So grab them those mediums, you can probably get them all for around $30 bucks and let them make some art!

 And if you want your kids to learn how to use those art mediums in a range of ways, join Artastic Kids and enjoy making unlimited Artworks using just those 4 art mediums. Want to learn more? Click here.

Create a Routine in your Home 

If you want to get your kids interested in art and have them focused on creating art not only one time, but build a passion for over repeated experiences, then make it a routine. Decide on one day of the week or schedule 3 evenings in a month (maybe every second Friday night and alternate movie night/art night) and make art as part of a new routine. It takes 18 days to create a new habit and 66 days to make that habit automatic. So making art one time won't get your kids interested in art. This is why, if you really want to make your kids interested in art, make it a new routine and schedule time to create together.

Make Mixed Media Art

When you create art with your kids, and if you really want to draw out their creativity and get them to experiment, then put out 2-3 art mediums for every art making session. This is not only good to get them experimenting and exploring the possibilities of the art mediums, but it is good for having their hands hold a variety of different mediums which is great for developing their fine motor skills. So when you go to teach your child art, bring out more than one medium. For instance, not just wax crayons, but use wax crayons AND watercolor paints and see the resist effects that happen. You can do a lot with a little but still make it a deep learning experience.

Find Art Resources to Help you Draw or Make Art:

If you're looking for resources to help your child draw, I suggest subscribing to the Ms Artastic YouTube Channel where I post Drawing tutorials every week.

If you're looking for affordable, accessible art lessons that use easy, simple art mediums, then check out Artastic Kids for lots of resources, including Online Streaming Art Lessons. It is the game-changing art lessons that kids can access anywhere, anytime, and means you no longer have to go searching for art studios and can instead, make art at home together. Click here to find out more.

Time to Teach your Child Art

My Tips for Teaching your Child Art Are: Create an Art Tub, Limit Art Mediums, Create a Routine, Make Mixed Media Art, and to Find Art Resources to help your child Draw or Make Art. Remember, the best way to make art is to start! So don't be afraid, just go for it! And if you want my Free Art Prompt list to get instant ideas to print off and keep in your art tub to get you started, then click here and make some art.

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