Balloon Watercolor Painting with Cookie Cutters
Balloons are great for any celebration. And this is a super easy balloon watercolor painting.
Kids can make their own balloon painting for a celebration. This type of painting makes it easy to make a fun painting that looks like a balloon and is great for fine motor work at the same time.
The Balloon Watercolor Painting is a fun twist from the party watercolor painting.
So, make a fun balloon painting today! And see all the fun colors you can make for balloons!
The Balloon Watercolor Painting is a great addition to the New Years painting crafts and the cookie cutter crafts on the site.
What is Cookie Cutter Painting?
Painting with a cookie cutter is an easy craft for kids to do. This gives a template, and the results are loads of fun.
Balloon Watercolor Painting with Cookie Cutters
Balloon watercolor painting is painting inside Balloon cookie cutters with watercolor paints. A fun painting and fine motor activity for kids.
Balloons are great for any party theme or even New Year’s Theme for kids.
What we used to make the Balloon Watercolor Painting
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- watercolors
- watercolor paper – this is great for painting projects
- balloon cookie cutter
- large paint brush
How we made the Balloon Watercolor Painting
You can see the steps below that we used to make the Balloon watercolor painting.
Place the Balloon Cookie Cutter on the Watercolor Paper
You place the balloon cookie cutter on the watercolor paper. You can place it anywhere you want. The balloon can be straight up or at an angle. The position does not matter.
Hold the Balloon Cookie Cutter and Paint Inside
Next you want to make sure you are holding the cookie cutter in place. You can do this by holding the top of the cookie cutter or around the sides. It will depend on which is best for kids.
Then you paint inside the balloon cookie cutter. You want to try and cover the whole area inside the cookie cutter without moving the cookie cutter. But movement can happen but that is okay.
Look the the Balloon on the Paper
After you have painting the balloon you can look at see how it look. You have a fun balloon on the paper for kids to see.
Keep Painting Balloons
Then you move on and keep painting balloons on the paper. You can do different colors and positions of the balloon. It is their painting.
You can see how pretty it is as more colors and balloons are added to the paper. And remember this is their painting and they can paint it how they want.
Final look at our Balloon Watercolor Painting
More Balloon Activities for Kids
Party Activity Pack: Prewriting, Shapes, ABCs, & Numbers has a mix of clip cards, tracing strips, easy reader books and no-prep worksheets all with a balloon theme.
Painting with Balloons is a great New Years Eve Activity. Balloons are a fun way to change up painting for kids.
Number Counting Fingers Puzzle has kids with balloon puzzle for kids to make with numbers from 1 to 12. You can count your fingers and match the numbers.
Balloon ABC Letter Find has all 26 letters of the alphabet with tracing the letter and then finding the letter on the balloon.
Balloon Number Dot Marker & Counting has numbers from 1 to 20 plus 0 if you need it with dot marker numbers and dot markers on the balloon.
Balloon Number Find Printable has numbers to trace and then find. It comes in number digit and number word options for kids. You have numbers from 1 to 20.
Balloon Number Word Counting 0 to 10 Book has number words to trace and number words to color with counting balloons on each page.
Check out all the fun New Years Activities & Printables on 3 Dinosaurs.
Cassie – 3Dinosaurs.com