Painting Space Nebula Using Soft Pastels - Art Tutorial For Kids

Ever wondered to introduce a new art medium to your kids other than crayons, water colors, acrylics etc? Here is a quick tutorial on painting a Nebula in space using Soft Pastels for kids. 

We do a lot of arts in our Homeschool! We have a Montessori Inspired arts corner set up for my 3 year old and he is free to access any art supplies.

Related Read - What Is Open Ended Art & How To Encourage It In Toddlers.

We do unstructured as well as guided/structured art and the pics of our artworks are spread all over my phone. Not every art activity go on to this blog. You might see many art posts on my Instagram & Facebook accounts.

This is our latest guided art work using soft pastels from Kokuyo Camlin. We tried to recreate a nebula from Natgeo book of space for kids. 

Here are our resources that we used in this project - 

Soft Pastels, Natgeo Book of Space, Black Paper, Sponge for smudging, White Acrylic Paint, Old Tooth Brush. You can go for any of the variants of soft pastels as mentioned below. It is suggested to use a fixative spray on top of your soft pastels art work so that it remains intact. 

My son chose this picture to paint. 

This is our first attempt using soft pastels. We got inspiration of such artwork from @acraftedchildhood on Instagram. Thanks momma!

My 3 year old son basically used soft pastels on a black chart paper as per the colors seen in the nebula. He did couple of layers.

This is what it looked after a bunch of colors he did.

Related Read - How To Encourage Creativity Through Art.

Then he smudged the colors using sponge when done.

He again layered with red soft pastel with its entire length on to the paper to get a wider & smooth stroke.

And then he sprayed white acrylic paint to recreate stars.

Here is the final version.

How do you like it? Hubby said the painting looks better than the original image, yes he is biased because it's done by our son!

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Waldorf Inspired Wet on Wet Water Coloring With Kids - Duck

        

Me & my 3 year old son did wet on wet water coloring together for some art therapy! In Waldorf philosophy of alternative education, wet on wet coloring is very popular. This is a free hand style we did together. It is Spring season right now & we are reading about nature & birds these days, so my son chose to paint a duck.

Here are some bird related books I am reading to my 3 year old these days because it's spring time and my boy has been listening to koyal and other birds these days during our nature walks. We also made a nest using twigs & weaved them into pipe cleaner few days back.

Do you have any favorite kids books related to birds? I would love to know, do share in the comments below.

Since we are reading about birds these days, my son wanted to paint a duck. So we took this page as reference and did our wet on wet painting.

Here is our humble setup.

Products Used -

The brand of water color paper we used isnt showing up online, so I am linking up a similar water color paper of another brand for your reference.

This is how we started our work on the floor.

Our work midway. Left one is my 3 year old son's work & right one is mine. It was done free hand on wet paper. I am actually happy the way my son's artwork turned out to be. It is difficult for a child to do free hand painting. Of course I was guiding him verbally how & what to make.

After the painting was dry, I outlined both the paintings using black gel pen. This is our final outcome & I am very happy about it!

Have you done wet on wet water coloring?

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Holi Themed Fun Hands-On Activities For Kids

We did some #holi themed activities, basically had fun with colors!

Painting with bursting water balloons (arts & gross motor)

Painting with syringe - a mini pichkaari (arts & fine motor)

Holika dahan at home (science experiment)

Marble painting (arts & gross motor)

Making eco friendly colors - Click HERE to know the recipes.

Letter matching activity (language)

Book reading

You can read more details about the activities here at My Article On BabyChakra

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How To Encourage Creativity - Open Ended Art Projects For Kids

Open ended art projects are very essential for the expression of the child! They help sp much in encouraging creativity & imagination in children of all ages! They also serve as great prewriting exercises. It gives the toddlers exposure to different textures & finger grips. A great sensory activity.

It is not about the end product of such art exercises but the enrichment during the art making process. It is therapeutic for even adults. Try it out some time :)

Here are 4 engaging & open ended art projects for kids of any age, starting from toddlers!




To facilitate arts in my home for my toddler, I had recently set up an arts corner for him. Check out this video how you can do the same in a budget friendly way!

Happy Parenting :)

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Montessori Inspired Budget Friendly Arts Corner At Home For Toddlers & Preschoolers (VLOG)

A budget-friendly, Montessori inspired arts corner for my 2 years old son to foster creativity, love for arts & independence :) And he is loving the experience! So am I :)

Child-sized furniture, prepared environment, inviting & beautiful setup - Thanks to Montessori for all these knowledge & nuggets!

Watch this video for a quick tour of this space that my son absolutely loves!

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