Artsy Craftsy Mom

Top Indian hobby, art and craft blog for kids

  • Facebook
  • Google+
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Home
  • Start Here
    • About ArtsyCraftsyMom
    • Fostering Creativity At Home – Starter Guide for Parents
    • My Favorite Art & Craft Supplies
    • Search by Age, Date or Category
    • Subscribe
    • Hire Us
    • Join our Team
    • #ARTSYCRAFTSYBREAK
  • Art ideas
    • Exploring The Great Artists
    • Folk Art
    • Printmaking Ideas
  • Craft Ideas
    • Holiday Crafts
    • Printable Crafts
    • Educational Crafts
    • Paper Crafts
    • Clay Crafts
    • Pipe Cleaner Crafts
    • Button Crafts
    • Stick Crafts
  • Exotic India
    • India Republic & Independence day
    • Indian Hindu Mythology
    • Indian Art / Craft suppliers
    • Indian Folk art
    • Festivals of India
    • Indian Books
    • Indian Recipes
    • Our Travel Tales
  • Lifestyle
    • Home Decor
    • Party Ideas
    • Books we love
    • Recipe corner
    • Parenting
  • Shop
    • Artsy Blog Planner
    • A to Z Alphabet Animal Craft Ebook
    • Learn with Play – Our Craft book
    • Printable Packs
    • e-Books on Indian Mythology
You are here: Home >> Activities by Age >> Preschooler Crafts & Activities >> Finger painting – Aquarium

Finger painting – Aquarium

Shruti Acharya | August 17, 2009 | 12 Comments

Sharing is caring!

308shares
  • Share
  • Tweet
  • Reddit
  • Email
We have been busy last weekend – went and bought a lot of craft supplies..
A4 Sheets, Brushes, black liners, 14 color water color tubes, All surface Acrylic colors, glitter glue, metallic sprays. I love to mix different mediums 🙂 and you’ll see that in our next project.

 
Happy fish in an aquarium
 

 

 What you need for this activity-
  1. A4 sheet folded in half or buy a white greeting card to paint upon.
  2. Ultramarine Blue water color mixed to form a very watery mixture for the aquarium water
  3. Red, Yellow, Green, brown acrylic colors for the fishes, plants & stones.
  4. Black sketch pen for the outline.
  5. White acrylic color for bubbles.

 

 
Finger painting aquarium
Step By step

 

 

Steps: [See L-R]

  1. Fold the A4 sheet in half , take the biggest brush and let your child wash over the entire surface. Once the side is painted, take a cloth and wipe off any wet paint from L to right. Paint the child’s thumb in a color of your choice. I like to use acrylic colors for this instead of water color because it gives a shiny n thick layer. Hold hand and place strategically as seen in 1st pic. Use as many colors as you need.
  2. Paint forefinger brown and make the stones at the lower part.
  3. Now’s your turn to be creative.. turn the finger prints into happy fishes using black sketch pen.
  4. Add some effects – some aquatic plants, bubbles and an outline and you have your colorful aquarium ready to be gifted .. [Click to enlarge]

 

PS: At each step, make sure that the paper is dry before adding new items.

 

 

Filed Under: Art ideas, Preschooler Crafts & Activities, Printmaking Ideas, revamp Tagged With: #GlitterCrafts, ArtsyCraftsyMom, Painting activities

About Shruti Acharya

Shruti is a writer, photographer, DIY lover, passionate homemaker, and the chief dreamer at ArtsyCraftsyMom.com . Shruti lives in Bangalore, India with her husband and daughter. She loves showcasing fun art activities, crafts for kids, celebrations, childrens books & all the craziness that is India.

« A way with words
Sawantwadi toys »

Comments

  1. Swaram says

    August 17, 2009 at 3:40 am

    Thatz a gr8 idea! The final outcome is too gud! Lil’P is really lucky 🙂

    Reply
  2. Shruti says

    August 17, 2009 at 6:38 am

    @swaram : ya we are having fun.. I shud thank my mom cos she is very creative too! Just passing along what i learnt 😉
    @MiM : Will do the post soon. & heres the pic of the lil artist

    Reply
  3. MiM says

    August 17, 2009 at 6:11 am

    this is SO CUTE!
    this is such a great idea!! wow shruti!

    *also pliss to do a post on how to use paint and stuff with minimal mess*

    we are scared of finger-painted walls!

    Reply
  4. MiM says

    August 17, 2009 at 6:20 am

    and i just showed this to my firstborn who totally loved it:-)
    he wanted to see the pic of the li’l artiste . 🙂

    Reply
  5. Meira says

    August 17, 2009 at 6:48 am

    wow! you keep coming with really great ideas. I’m going to save the links (for when i have kids, you see:P)

    Reply
  6. MiM says

    August 19, 2009 at 2:32 pm

    shruti!
    I am pleased to report that we tried this @ home…:-)
    this evening.
    since i am not as artistic as you… we narrowed things down to just yellow paint and drawing only fish – no water , no leaves, no stones no air bubbles

    and it still looks so cute!
    firstborn and me took turns.
    we also turned some into sunflowers:-)
    thanks 🙂

    Reply
  7. Shruti says

    August 19, 2009 at 2:49 pm

    @MiM : Share the pics!! share the pics plssssss!! 🙂 I’ll put up other kids art work too. mail it to shruti(underscore)va(at)yahoo(dot)com
    *muah* lots of kisses to FB.

    Reply
  8. The Print Lover says

    August 20, 2009 at 2:06 am

    *whee* This brings back flooding memories of my childhood. But my aquarium was not as colorful as yours 🙂

    Reply
  9. Shruti says

    August 20, 2009 at 3:14 am

    @The print lover: Yes it does!!! I am recalling all the stuff i had done with my mom ( my mom still has most my paintings) .. n teaching them to lil P. 🙂 fun.

    Reply
  10. artsy_momma says

    January 18, 2010 at 8:58 pm

    That is adorable! I am going to try this one with my son soon 🙂

    Reply
  11. Nagamani says

    July 15, 2010 at 9:01 am

    my 2.5 year old son is mad about “fish”…since he is months old, I used to tell him a fish story..even now also, he insists me to tell all types of fish stories..I’m sure he would definitely love this “fish” activity…superb idea !!!

    Reply
  12. MindfulMeanderer says

    July 15, 2010 at 2:32 pm

    @Artsy_momma & Nagamani: Welcome here! 🙂 Do share ur crafts that you do with ur kids.

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

 About ArtsyCraftsyMom
 ArtsyCraftsyMom on Instagram
 Quick access
  • New? Start Here
  • Advertise
  • Join our Team
  • Subscribe
  • Shop
  • Google Privacy Policy & Declaration
 ArtsyCraftsyMom on pinterest

© Copyright 2020 · ArtsyCraftsyMom · All Rights Reserved · About ·