I’m Deborah from My Life at Playtime, where I share what life is like living in urban Los Angeles with three kids(Gunnar 12, Sawyer 9, Greta 7). We love adventures within our city, and try our best to grow a backyard garden each and every year. I also love sharing simple projects, styling tips for self and home and entertaining ideas. You can find me daily on Instagram, Facebook, and Pinterest.
Now, back to our spring art lesson. For this project you’ll need blue painter’s tape, watercolor paper, water, brush, and watercolors. Rip the blue painter’s tape into thin pieces, so you have a variety of sizes at hand.
The pieces of the tape will then be placed directly on to the watercolor paper. You can create an image, design or pattern using the tape. Get creative, and if you don’t like the placement of something, just peel the tape off carefully and try again. Be sure children understand that the tape is going to resist or keep out the paint.
Once they are happy with their picture or design they can get to work with the watercolors. Be sure the entire page is covered with watercolors, no white left! Once it’s dry or nearly dry, carefully peel off the painter’s tape to reveal the beautiful image left underneath. The design you created with the tape resisted the watercolor and will show up white in contrast to the other colors.
Thanks for having me Rebecca and Simple As That readers!
Thank YOU Deborah for sharing this delightful project! This is a perfect afternoon activity for the kids to enjoy this Summer! Be sure to stop by Deborah’s blog My Life at Playtime for more fabulous kids art ideas and enjoy her beautiful photography while you’re there!
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Beautiful stuff! I wanted to point out that the link to my life at playtime is broken, but easy to figure out all the same.
Thank you so much for pointing that out Traci! All fixed now!! 🙂
I know what our art project will be for today! I LOVE this! I have never thought to use painter’s tape in a watercolor picture to get this effect! It’s darling! My kids will really enjoy doing this! Thanks so much for sharing!
so cute and so fun! I recently got out my water color palette and my kids were mesmerized, and I realized i’ve never painted watercolors WITH them, which I should do!!! thanks for the inspiration
OH, my kids would LOVE this!!
Watercolors are such an awesome paint and I never thought of using them like this for kids!
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Yup, so cute!! To answer your question Rebecca my kids usually just use the dollar store ones. I think the paper makes a bigger difference than the paints. So buy some good paper. (I have some nicer watercolors from Windsor Newton or Grumbacher are both good.)
Found this on Pinterest and plan to try it with my son this summer! But I’m mostly commenting because your blog design is so stinking beautiful. I had to stop and say that. Gorgeous! I just want to stare at it for a while. And this doesn’t make me a blog nerd at ALL, right? Right.