We’ve got a great craft activity for all the little artists out there! This abstract art activity is a free form craft where anything goes! Abstract art is a modern form of art that doesn’t look exactly like other things around us. It might make you think, or laugh, or feel something new. It might look like something to you, and something completely different to someone else. Or it might not look anything at all! Abstract art can be anything you can imagine!

In this abstract art activity, we give suggestions for different techniques to try in your abstract art piece. Many of these techniques have been used in some our favorite Super Simple crafts – you might recognize a few! Each one makes a different kind of shape, pattern and texture, and you can use any colors you like.

Try showing your little one a few of these different techniques, and see which ones they like. Some of these techniques are perfect for the youngest of artists, and some are great for artists who have developed their fine motor skills a bit more. Give it a try and see what your little artist comes up with!

Things You Need

• A blank piece of paper

All you need to get started is a blank piece of paper. What other materials you need will depend on the techniques you try. Those special materials are listed under each technique and are in the photo above.

Technique: Aluminium Foil Stamp

Where You’ve Seen This Before: The Great Big Moon Craft

Materials:

• Aluminum foil
• Craft paint

How To: Scrunch and flatten a piece of aluminum foil in a ball. Dip it into paint and stamp it onto your piece of paper. Try stamping the aluminum foil into two different colors of paint for an interesting effect.

Technique: Bubble Wrap Stamp

Where You’ve Seen This Before: Create Your Own Beehive & Snowman Craft & Bubble Wrap Rain Craft

Materials:

• Bubble wrap
• Craft paint
• Paint brush

How To: Using a paint brush, brush paint onto the bubble wrap and press it down onto the paper. Try using different sizes of bubble wrap for a different look, or cut your bubble wrap into different shapes.

Technique: Dotters With A Stencil

Where You’ve Seen This Before: Valentine’s Day Stamp Crafts & Activities!

Materials:

• Dotters
• Paper
• Scissors

How To: Cut a shape out of paper and place the paper shape onto your art piece. For our art piece, we cut out a snowflake shape. Use a dotter to stamp around the edges of the paper cut out shape. Remove the stencil to reveal the shape!

Technique: Make Your Own Stamps

Where You’ve Seen This Before: Apple Tree Stamps

Materials:

• Paint
• Bottle Caps & foam stickers
• Pom poms & clothespin

How To: Stick foam stickers onto a bottle cap to make your own stamps! Dip the stamp into paint and stamp your paper. Clip a pom pom onto a clothespin to make a simple circle stamp with a clothespin handle. Dip the pom pom into paint and stamp your paper. 

Technique: Tissue Paper Blooms

Where You’ve Seen This Before: Tissue Paper Tree Craft

Materials:

• Tissue Paper
• White glue
• Pencil

How To: Cut the tissue paper into squares and wrap them around the eraser end of a pencil. Dip it into white glue and then glue it onto your paper. If this is too tricky for little hands, you can always glue the pieces of tissue paper directly onto the paper for a bit of different tissue paper technique. 

Technique: Cardboard Tube Stamp

Where You’ve Seen This Before: Valentine’s Day Stamp Crafts & Activities!

Materials:

• Cardboard tube
• Glue

How To: Fold the cardboard tube to make different shapes, like a square, oval or bowtie. Dip the end of the tube into paint, and stamp your paper!

For more technique ideas for your abstract art piece, check out these other crafts:

• Car Tracks Craft
• Fork Flowers
• Sponge Stamp Train
• Blow Paint Monsters

You can let your imagination and creativity run wild on your paper with these different art techniques, perfect for little artists. If you would like a bit of structure for your abstract art piece, try starting by drawing a squiggly line all over your paper, connecting the two ends of the line so you make different sections. Then fill each section with a different technique from the list above!

When you’re finished, don’t forget to sign your name and give your art piece a title. What would you name the art piece below? 

We call it ‘The Slimey Snail’. We can’t wait to see your amazing abstract art! 

Need more inspiration? Watch Caitie make abstract art in the classroom in the Caitie’s Classroom episode All About Art. 

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These blow paint monsters are not so scary. Instead they are super fun! You never know what kind of creature you’ll end up with! By using different coloured paints, and using a straw to blow the paint around instead of a paint brush, you get something new and interesting every time. Use your imagination and get creative adding eyes, and extra features to your monster. We would love to see what you come up with! Share your monster creations on social media and be sure to tag @SuperSimpleCaitie or use the hashtag #SuperSimpleOfficial. Check out the blow paint monsters Caitie made with our friends in the classroom, during our episode all about wind!

Things you’ll need

• Thick paper or a small canvas
• Craft paint
• Straws

To decorate:

• Googly eyes
• Small piece of black and white paper (for the monster’s mouth)
• Pom poms, stickers
• Coloured markers

Steps

• Dilute your craft paint with a bit of water until it flows nicely. When your paint mixture is ready place dollops of paint onto your paper or canvas.
• With a straw, blow the paint into every direction by turning your paper while you blow. You can experiment with different sizes straws for different effects.



• Leave your paint to dry overnight.



• Once dried, decorate your monster! Glue the eyes, cut out a mouth shape with black paper, and add white teeth. You could also draw legs and arms to decorate however you like.



• Once finished you could also cut out your monsters and glue them all together onto a large piece of paper to display your monsters creations all together!

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Calling all toy cars and trucks, we have a job to do! It’s time to get crafty! This is a super simple craft that is sure to please. Be sure to carefully pick and choose what toy cars you use in this craft so no toys are ruined by the paint – some are easier to clean than others. Once the toy cars and trucks are done being crafty, they can go for a ride in the car wash to get clean again! Clean up is part of the fun! Start your engines, here we go!

Here’s what you need to make this craft

• White paper
• Toy cars and trucks
• Paints – different colors
• Paper plates, or something to put the paints on

Steps

Squeeze your paints onto the paper plates. Depending on the size of your toy vehicles, you may want to use one color per plate.

Dip your vehicles into the paint and move them back and forth a bit so the wheels get covered all the way around.

Then, drive the toy cars and trucks back and forth on the white paper and see the tracks they make!

Race to fill the page with paint, or head to the finish line once your masterpiece is looking great. Now it’s time for the cars and trucks to head to the soapy car wash for a good scrub!

Watch Caitie make this craft in the classroom!

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Colors are fun to teach and can be very fun to learn. Children begin to differentiate colors, shapes, textures and sizes at 18 months, but a good time to start teaching colors is at 2.5 or 3 years old. The best way to teach colors is through playful experience and repetition.

Why is it important to learn about colors? Colors help us sort and classify objects and give us the ability to describe the world we see around us.

As a caregiver, you can work colors into your sentences when speaking with children: “Would you like to wear your yellow hat or your purple hat today?” By adding these descriptions to your everyday conversations you build in some helpful reviewing for little ones.

Another excellent tip for helping kids learn color vocabulary is teaching them how to use the word in a sentence by repeating it both ways. “This is a red apple, this apple is red.”

Getting creative with activities and opportunities for children to use colors is fun for everyone and beneficial for little ones. Our Color Hunt is a great activity you can easily do at home to learn and review colors in a playful way. We hope you try it out and feel free to check out the links below for more color themed content from Super Simple!

Things you’ll need:

• Six sheets of colorful construction paper. We chose red, yellow, blue, green, pink, and orange.
• Items from around the house, classroom or play area.

Encourage the children to search and choose items that match each of the colors and then have them place the items on top of the corresponding sheet of construction paper. More ideas: You can make it a time challenge by setting a timer and counting up the totals for each color, or assign one color per student, or let it be a work-in-progress activity that children can come back to later in the day or week. Feel free to ask older children to write a list of the items in each color category for further vocabulary and spelling review, too.

We hope you enjoy the Color Hunt and feel free to tag us in your photos and stories so we can see all of the colorful things you learned!

Other Color Activities:

You might also enjoy making Colors in a Bag.

Apples Race To The Finish! FREE printable board game.

Creative Coloring with Color Spinner Activity.

“I See Something Pink” FREE printable Flashcards.

Nature Scavenger Hunt Activity.

Songs about Colors:

“What’s Your Favorite Color?”

The Bumble Nums sing “Red Yellow Green Blue”.

“Red Light, Green Light” with the Super Simple puppets.

“I See Something Blue”.

“I See Something Pink”.

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