Using Spices to Paint

The children's art group has a great sensory craft mixing spices and glue and water to make scented and colorful paint. Kids will love the colors and textures and scents.

Good for ages 3 and up.

Get the instructions here:

http://thechildrensartgroup.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/children-art-group-spice-painting.html

Paper Plate Dream Catcher

Raising sparks shares how turn a paper plate into a dream catcher using beads, feathers and string.  

Good for ages 4 and up.

Get the instructions here:
http://raisingsparks.com/craft-activities/paper-plate-crafts-for-kids/

Leaf Shadow Art

Rock a bye butterfly has a cute idea of how to make colorful leaf shadows using leafs and oil based crayons.

Good for ages 4 and up.

Get the instructions here:
http://www.rockabyebutterfly.com/2011/09/fall.html

Button Art Roundup

One great way for kids to decorate a picture is by using buttons.  You'll need to add the outline and the glue but they can add the buttons to make a really neat picture.

Here are some great examples:

Button Letters

Button Trees

Good for ages 5 and up

Craftulate makes fish, flowers, hearts and butterflies.

Get the instructions here:
http://craftulate.com/2014/07/button-art.html

Bath Time Submarine Printable

Mr. printables has some really cute and colorful templates your kids can embellish to create their very own bathtub submarines. Each template has spaces to add animals and pictures. After they add their own touch to them simply place them within a clear plastic bottle for lots of bathtime fun.

Good for ages 5 and up.

Get the instructions here:

http://www.mrprintables.com/homemade-toys-bottle-submarine.html

Paint With a Fly Swatter

The imagination tree has a fun way to play with paint -- using a fly swatter. Kids will have fun swatting the paper. They suggest making fly swatter flowers, but we guess kids will just love swatting the paper in general.

Good for ages 2 and up.

Get the instructions here:

http://www.theimaginationtree.com/2012/03/fly-swatter-flower-paintings.html

Fairy Feather Wand

Craft project ideas has a great tutorial for little girls -- creating a feather wand. All you need are some popsicle sticks, paint, feathers and glue and bing you'll have a wand.

Good for ages 5 and up.

Get the instructions here:

http://www.craftprojectideas.com/index.php/how-to/material-of-the-month/wood-dowels-february-2012/780-feather-wand