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-
- A4 sheet folded in half or buy a white greeting card to paint upon.
- Ultramarine Blue water color mixed to form a very watery mixture for the aquarium water
- Red, Yellow, Green, brown acrylic colors for the fishes, plants & stones.
- Black sketch pen for the outline.
- White acrylic color for bubbles.
Step By step
Steps: [See L-R]
- 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.
- Paint forefinger brown and make the stones at the lower part.
- Now’s your turn to be creative.. turn the finger prints into happy fishes using black sketch pen.
- 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.
Thatz a gr8 idea! The final outcome is too gud! Lil’P is really lucky 🙂
@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
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!
and i just showed this to my firstborn who totally loved it:-)
he wanted to see the pic of the li’l artiste . 🙂
wow! you keep coming with really great ideas. I’m going to save the links (for when i have kids, you see:P)
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 🙂
@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.
*whee* This brings back flooding memories of my childhood. But my aquarium was not as colorful as yours 🙂
@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.
That is adorable! I am going to try this one with my son soon 🙂
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 !!!
@Artsy_momma & Nagamani: Welcome here! 🙂 Do share ur crafts that you do with ur kids.