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February 28, 2016 · 2 Comments

Easy Spring Watercolor Craft

Crafts· For Kids· Seasonal + Holiday· Spring

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Easy Spring Watercolor Craft - this watercolor project with "magic pictures" that appear when you paint, is an AWESOME Spring craft for kids of all ages!

Who here has started their countdown to Spring?  I’m sure I’m not the only one.  But here in MN we really don’t have much to complain about.  It’s been such a mild winter – heck, we even enjoyed a 55-degree Saturday yesterday.

The twins are loving this Spring-like weather.  Yesterday we took out new rain boots (Thanks Grandma!) for a spin over by Lake Harriet to test out the puddles and indulge in some ice cream.  Life. Is. Good.

We even managed to make (and photograph) an Easy Spring Watercolor Craft this week.  The twins are really going through a painting phase.  I swear, every day someone asks to do a craft or paint.  This mommy isn’t complaining!

Easy Spring Watercolor Craft - this watercolor project with "magic pictures" that appear when you paint, is an AWESOME Spring craft for kids of all ages!

This Easy Spring Watercolor Craft is seriously so simple.  It’s a great project for kids of all ages, as long as they can hold a paintbrush!

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Easy Spring Watercolor Craft – Supplies

  • watercolor paper (I used a small tablet)
  • white china marker grease pen – white crayon would work too
  • masking tape
  • paint brushes
  • watercolor paint

Easy Spring Watercolor Craft - this watercolor project with "magic pictures" that appear when you paint, is an AWESOME Spring craft for kids of all ages!


Easy Spring Watercolor Craft – Instructions

Easy Spring Watercolor Craft - this watercolor project with "magic pictures" that appear when you paint, is an AWESOME Spring craft for kids of all ages!

Using the white grease pen, draw simple figures on sheets of watercolor paper.  I will gladly admit that I did a Google image search for “simple spring drawings” for inspiration.

Easy Spring Watercolor Craft - this watercolor project with "magic pictures" that appear when you paint, is an AWESOME Spring craft for kids of all ages!

Tape each sheet of paper to your table.  Make sure to tape well all the way around the paper, especially if you have little ones that may get carried away with paint.  This will help keep your paper from warping.

Easy Spring Watercolor Craft - this watercolor project with "magic pictures" that appear when you paint, is an AWESOME Spring craft for kids of all ages!

Just a cute shot of Miss B “helping” with the tape.

Easy Spring Watercolor Craft - this watercolor project with "magic pictures" that appear when you paint, is an AWESOME Spring craft for kids of all ages!

Now it’s time to paint!  We used 4 colors – red, yellow, green blue.  Just paint over the paper, and watch your images appear.

Easy Spring Watercolor Craft - this watercolor project with "magic pictures" that appear when you paint, is an AWESOME Spring craft for kids of all ages!

Easy Spring Watercolor Craft - this watercolor project with "magic pictures" that appear when you paint, is an AWESOME Spring craft for kids of all ages!

Let your images dry before removing the tape.  We also placed our stack of dried pictures under a heavy book for about 12 hours to help flatten the paper.

Easy Spring Watercolor Craft – The Outcome

Easy Spring Watercolor Craft - this watercolor project with "magic pictures" that appear when you paint, is an AWESOME Spring craft for kids of all ages!

We loved doing this project.  The twins were so excited about giving their pictures to Grandma to take home and hang in her office.

This was such an easy project, I think we may repeat it for other seasons and holidays, so stay tuned!

Easy Spring Watercolor Craft - this watercolor project with "magic pictures" that appear when you paint, is an AWESOME Spring craft for kids of all ages!

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  1. Lynn says

    March 1, 2016 at 8:39 pm

    Love this project!!

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