Looking for kid’s holiday activities? Kid’s murals add love, art
Looking for kid’s holiday activities? Kid’s murals add love, art and a unique festive touch!
Th Romans and Italians, famous for their finely detailed paintings on the walls of their homes, is perhaps the inspiration for murals as an art concept. For example, many towns and cities across the world have commissioned artists to paint murals on the exterior of the building. It’s also becoming a fast-growing trend in home decorating.
However, isn’t it a much more exciting idea to consider a kid’s mural project, where your child can enjoy creating his own holiday kid’s mural and seeing it on display, big as you please? The idea of a kid’s mural needn’t be confined to the holidays. This kid’s art project can become the favored, ongoing seasonal project, which works with one child or six.
Murals tend to tell a story, either through symbolism or imagery. The subjects may involve people at a task, or interacting with body language. A woman pouring water from a jug, or warriors on horses are just a couple of examples. Then again, some murals are essentially landscapes. When you introduce this art project to the kids, your first step is to get online. Do a Google image search on ‘frescoes’. Naturally, you’ll get a mix of ancient and contemporary art, so you can refine stylistic elements during different time periods with a different search string. For example, ‘Italian frescoes’ and ‘Italian murals’ will, for the most part, separate ancient from contemporary work. And, don’t forget to search on ‘kid’s murals’! This online look at this age-old traditional art will be an eye-opener, inspiring them with so many ideas for their mural.
After this mini-tour of frescoes and murals through the centuries, expect that the enthusiasm for the kid’s mural project will be high. Let the kids decide where they’d like to display their mural, so that you can calculate the size of the frameless, hard board canvas you’ll need. For a larger kid’s mural, you might also consider using 3/8 plywood, which you seal with primer before beginning. Other supplies you’ll need include pencils, acrylic paints, a few plastic palettes and acrylic brushes, ranging from wide to fine.
Even DaVinci needed to make pencil studies, so encourage the kids to pencil in their basic composition before starting to paint, so their finished art will most closely reflect what their imagination told them.
Lay down a lot of newspaper around the canvas or plywood! The result will be a beautiful addition to your home and some proud artists. Kid’s murals can hang in the entryway, the dining room, or grace a wall in the child’s room. This kid’s activity is great for the holidays, but can be easily adapted to any season. All it takes is a thin nail with a wide head to archive the holiday mural with a Valentine updated wall space. Kid’s murals are absolutely one of the easiest and most exciting of kid’s art projects, which can be done with a single child or in groups, year ’round!
