94+ Watercolor Painting Ideas For Kids
Watercolor Painting is a fun craft idea for kids. You have so many ways to use watercolors, and it is always flexible for different ages.
You are going to find watercolor ideas for all year, summer, fall, winter, and spring. And any new ideas are added here.
You can use watercolors in preschool, prek, kindergarten, and with older kids. And different ages can do art projects together.
What is Watercolor Painting?
Watercolor painting for kids is a fun, creative art activity where children use water-soluble paints made from tiny bits of color, called pigments, mixed into a water-based liquid. Most often watercolors are used on watercolor paper.
Watercolor Painting Ideas For Kids
You’ll find a collection of ideas that all include watercolor painting as part of the craft. There are so many fun ways to use watercolors.
You could use watercolor for the whole picture.
You could use watercolor for part of the picture.
Any way that you use the watercolors is just fine.
Things to use with the Watercolor Painting Crafts
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Now we may use other items with each of the watercolor paintings. But you can find all those in each of the crafts.
Watercolor Painting Crafts Menu
A jump to the watercolor craft activities you are looking for. These are all the sections you will find below.
All Year Watercolor Paintings
Fall Watercolor Paintings
Winter Watercolor Paintings
Spring Watercolor Paintings
Summer Watercolor Paintings
All Year Watercolor Paintings
1. Circle Watercolor Painting with Cookie Cutters
Circle Watercolor Painting with Cookie Cutters is a great shape cookie cutter painting. A fun painting you can do to dot day or any time of the year for a shape theme.
2. Circle Watercolor & Oil Pastel Painting
Circle Painting is a fun activity where you trace inside cookie cutters and then paint afterwards.
3. Dragon Watercolor Painting
Dragon Watercolor Painting has kids paint dragons on the paper with cookie cutter. It is great for a fairy tale and dragon theme and could be done at any time of the year.
4. Fireworks Watercolor & Oil Pastel Painting
Watercolor & Oil Pastel Fireworks is a great craft that kids can do. You have do this mixed art and have fun watching the watercolor on the paper with the oil pastels.
5. Watercolor Pencil Fireworks Craft for Kids
Watercolor Pencil Fireworks Craft for Kids is a great firework craft that kids can do. It looks great and is super easy to do!
6. Iceberg Watercolor Painting
Iceberg Watercolor Painting is a fun watercolor painting activity you can do with kids. You can talk about how the ice in the ocean.
7. Lunar Eclipse Watercolor Painting
Watercolor Moon: Lunar Eclipse is a fun painting you can make with kids for a lunar eclipse. And it is fun to do and talk about how the moon is red during the lunar eclipse.
8. Night Sky Constellation Craft
Night Sky Constellation Craft is a mixed art nigh sky craft. You have oil pastels, watercolors and glitter paper. A fun night sky idea for kids.
9. Watercolor Moon Painting
Watercolor Moon Painting is a fun watercolor painting activity for kids to make a moon.
10. Watercolor & Oil Pastel Night Sky Painting
Watercolor & Oil Pastel Night Sky is a fun night sky painting activity. You have moon and stars in this space painting activity.
11. Watercolor Galaxies Painting
Watercolor Galaxies are fun watercolor pencil galaxies that you can make. It is a fun way to mix up art activities you are doing.
12. Watercolor Planet Mars Painting
Watercolor & Oil Pastel: Planet Mars is a great watercolor and oil pastel painting that kids can make. It is a great planet themed activity they can do.
13. Watercolor Color Wheel Craft
Watercolor Color Wheel – Monsters Love Color IS a great book and craft for monsters. You have learn about different color and mixing those colors.
14. Watercolor & Oil Pastel Truffula Trees Painting
Watercolor & Oil Pastel Truffula Trees a great mixed art activity for kids to do! You make the trees and the paint the background.
15. Volcano: Watercolor & Q-Tip Painting
Volcano: Watercolor & Q-Tip Painting. is a great mixed art painting for kids. Where we used watercolors and paints to make a volcano painting.
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Fall Watercolor Paintings
16. Apple Trees: Watercolor and Oil Pastels Painting
Fun Apple Trees: Watercolor and Oil Pastels are a fun painting project using two different types of art projects together.
17. Apple Cookie Cutter Painting
Apple Cookie Cutter Painting is a fun project to do with kids! They have tons of fun painting! You can use watercolor paints to do this apple painting for kids.
18. Apples Watercolor Painting
Apples Watercolor Painting is a fun watercolor painting of an apple. This is a great apple watercolor painting you can do.
19. Bat in the Moon Watercolor Painting
Bat in the Moon A Fun Halloween Painting is a fun watercolor and cookie cutter painting. It is a fun Halloween painting activity that kids can do.
20. Corn Watercolor Painting
The Watercolor Corn Painting is loads of fun to make and has kids watching watercolor spread in water.
21. Crayon Watercolor Painting with Cookie Cutters
Crayon Watercolor Painting is a fun color painting you can do with kids. It is great for back to school and other fun color activities. And the cookie cutters make it a simple painting activity.
22. Fire Safety Cookie Cutter Watercolor Painting
Fire Safety Cookie Cutter Watercolor Painting is a fun way to use cookie cutters to paint and show all the fun firefighter themes.
23. Fall Tree Watercolor Painting
Watercolor Fall Tree is a great fine motor activity while painting a tree. You use watercolors to make the leaves on the tree and background. You start with oil pastels for the tree trunk. This is a great mixed art project for kids of all ages.
24. Fall Tree Watercolor and Q-Tip Painting
Fall Tree Watercolor and Q-Tip Painting is a great mixed art project for kids to do for fall. You use watercolor for the background and tree and q-tip painting for the leaves.
25. Fall Tree: Watercolor & Oil Pastels Craft
Fall Tree: Watercolor & Oil Pastels is a great mix medium art project that kids can do. You paint the background with watercolors and make the tree with oil pastels. And it makes a really pretty tree.
26. Football Cookie Cutter Watercolor Painting
Football Cookie Cutter Watercolor Painting is a great football craft that you can do with kids. You can paint footballs, helmet and jersey in colors to make your favorite team.
27. Ghosts in the Sky Oil Pastel & Watercolor Painting
Ghosts in the Sky Oil Pastel & Watercolor is a fun watercolor and oil pastel painting activity. This is a great mix art project for kids.
28. Jack-O-Lantern Watercolor Painting
Watercolor Process Art Jack-O-Lantern is a mix art project for jack-o-lanterns that is loads of fun to do. You can watch this pumpkin come to life with this watercolor painting activity.
29. Leaves Cookie Cutter Watercolor Painting
The Leaves Cookie Cutter Painting is a fun fine motor painting activity that kids can have tons of fun with. You can use fun leave and fall cookie cutters for this painting.
30. 5 Pumpkins Sitting on a Gate Watercolor Painting
5 Pumpkins Sitting on a Gate Watercolor is a great painting activity for kids to do. Plus a fun way to use cookies cutters! Plus you can see how creative kids can be.
31. Pumpkin Patch Watercolor and Paint Painting
Pumpkin Patch Watercolor and Paint is a great way to on painting with cookie cutters!
32. Pumpkin Cookie Cutter Watercolor Painting
Pumpkin Cookie Cutter Watercolor Painting is a great painting for fall. You have paint fun pumpkins on the paint.
33. Jack-O-Lantern Patch Oil Pastel and Watercolor Painting
Jack-O-Lantern Patch Oil Pastel and Watercolor is super fun for kids to make! Thi sis great to see how much fun the pumpkins turn out
34. Watercolor Poppy Painting Craft
Watercolor Poppy Painting is a fun watercolor painting that you can make with kids. It is simple and easy painting for kids with a cookie cutter.
35. School Cookie Cutter Watercolor Painting
School Cookie Cutter Watercolor Painting is a great back to school painting idea you can do with kids. Just paint inside the school themed cookie cutters!
36. Turkey Watercolor Painting
Turkey Watercolor Painting is a simple turkey painting with cookie cutters that kids can do and have fun painting lots of turkeys.
37. Turkey Feathers Watercolor Painting
Turkey Feathers Watercolor Painting is a fun turkey painting where kids paint inside the feather with watercolors to make a turkey. A great way to work on fine motor and painting at the same time. And a great turkey craft for Thanksgiving.
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Winter Watercolor Paintings
38. Watercolor Lanterns Craft for Chinese New Year
Watercolor Lanterns for Chinese New Year is a simple watercolor craft you can make with kids for the Lunar New Year.
39. Winter Birch Trees Watercolor Painting
Easy To Paint Watercolor Birch Trees are a super simple winter painting activities. You use watercolors and oil pastels to make an amazing picture. Plus you can also check out the book we read with it.
40. Christmas Watercolor Cookie Cutter Painting
Christmas Watercolor Cookie Cutter Painting is a fun watercolor inside several Christmas cookie cutters. A fun way to make a simple Christmas painting.
41. Watercolor Christmas Trees
Watercolor Christmas Trees are a fun way to use cookie cutters for painting Christmas trees on paper.
42. Glitter Watercolor Christmas Lights Painting
Glitter Watercolor Christmas Lights Painting is a simple and easy to for Christmas painting. You have fun with cookie cutter paint and glittery watercolors.
43. Watercolor & Oil Pastels Christmas Trees
Watercolor & Oil Pastels Christmas Trees is a fun mix medium art craft that you can do with kids. You have a watercolor tree and oil pastel ornaments.
44. Nativity Painting with Cookie Cutters
Nativity Painting with Cookie Cutters is a great way to focus on the Nativity and make a great painting for kids.
45. Nativity Watercolor Painting for Kids
Nativity Watercolor Painting for Kids is a fun way to make the whole nativity with kids in a fun painting activity using cookie cutters.
46. Rudolph The Red Nose Watercolor & Oil Pastel Painting
Rudolph The Red Nose Watercolor & Oil Pastel Painting is a super easy painting activity that many different ages can do!
47. Cookie Cutter: Christmas Lights Painting
Cookie Cutter: Christmas Lights Painting is a simple and easy painting of Christmas lights on a Christmas tree.
48. Hanukkah Watercolor Cookie Cutter Painting
Hanukkah Watercolor Cookie Cutter Painting is a fun watercolor painting activities for kids that uses cookie cutter to make a fun Hanukkah painting.
49. Deer In Winter Watercolor Painting
Deer In Winter Watercolor Painting has a deer walking through the trees in winter. A great way to make a winter painting with kids. You paint the background with watercolors and use a cookie cutter for the deer.
50. Groundhog Shadow Painting
Groundhog Shadow Painting is a fun sunrise shadow painting with a cookie cutter. Plus suggestions for doing with different ages.
51. Groundhog Watercolor Painting
Groundhog Watercolor Painting is a simple cookie cutter painting you can do with kids. You use browns, gray, and black colors for the painting inside the cookie cutter.
52. Handprint Watercolor Painting
Handprint Watercolor Painting has different sizes of hands and showing the different colors of skin.
53. Watercolor Mitten Painting
Watercolor Mitten Painting has kids painting colorful mittens with watercolor on the paper. This goes great with a winter them or a mitten theme for kids.
54. Party Watercolor Painting with Cookie Cutters
Party Watercolor Painting is a fun party theme with party hats, confetti and balloons for kids to paint. You can make a great celebration ideas.
55. Balloon Watercolor Painting with Cookie Cutters
Balloon Watercolor Painting is a fun celebration painting you can do with kids. You can have fun painting different colors of balloons with kids.
56. Snowflakes Watercolor Painting
Fun to Make Watercolor Snowflakes is a great activity using cookie cutters. It makes a great collage of snowflakes on the paper.
57. Watercolor & Oil Pastel Snowflakes Painting
Watercolor & Oil Pastel Snowflakes Painting is a fun painting activity for winter. You can see how the snowflake stand out and make a great picture.
58. Snowflake Q-Tip Painting
Snowflake Q-Tip Painting is simple and easy with cookie cutters, white paint and watercolors.
59. Winter Tree Watercolor Painting Craft
Winter Tree Painting Craft is a fun mixed art painting with a winter tree covered with snow. You have watercolor painting and painting with a q-tip.
60. Penguin Watercolor Painting
Penguin Watercolor Painting is a very easy painting activity that kids can do. This is a great cookie cutter painting for kids.
61. Watercolor Heart Process Art Painting
Watercolor Heart Process Art is a fun way to explore painting with watercolors. You can watch how watercolors spread in water. This is a great older age kids painting activity.
62. Watercolor Hearts Painting
A simple and easy Watercolor Hearts Painting with cookie cutters! This is a simple activity that kids of different ages can do to paint and make hearts.
63. Textured Heart Tree Watercolor Painting
Textured Heart Tree Watercolor Painting is a great Valentines tree to make with kids. Is a great way to mix painting with watercolors. And seeing how textures show up on the tree.
64. Heart Painting: Oil Pastel & Watercolor Painting
The Heart Painting: Oil Pastel & Watercolor is a great mixed art painting that kids can do. This is a great heart reveal painting for kids to do.
65. Clover Watercolor Painting
Clover Watercolor Painting – this is an easy activity with a cookie cutter. You can use different colors of paint and have fun making the clover painting.
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Spring Watercolor Paintings
66. Bug Cookie Cutter Watercolor Painting
Bug Cookie Cutter Watercolor Painting is a fun painting with cookie cutters that works great for a bug collage painting.
67. Butterfly Watercolor Painting With Cooke Cutter
Butterfly Watercolor Painting With Cooke Cutter is a simple watercolor painting you can do with kids and a cookie cutter. You can have fun with different colors and paint with watercolors.
68. Butterfly Watercolor Wreaths Craft
Easy To Make Watercolor Butterfly Wreaths is a fun craft to make with kids. This is a great paper plate wreath with fun watercolor painted butterflies.
69. Watercolor Butterfly & Flower Painting
Watercolor Butterfly & Flower Painting is a fun painting with cookie cutters. You can use simple cookie cutters to make the butterflies and flowers to make a fun painting that kids can be creative with.
70. Watercolor Planet Earth Painting
Watercolor Planet Earth Painting is a fun Planet Earth painting activity you can do with kids for Earth Day.
71. Easter Egg Cookie Cutter Painting
A fun and easy Easter Egg Cookie Cutter Painting. This is a great way to work on fine motor and different ages can work on the painting.
72. Flower Watercolor Painting
Watercolor Flower Painting using three flower cookie cutters to make a mix of bright and colorful flowers on the paper.
73. Watercolor Flower Process Art Painting
Watercolor Flower Process Art is a very fun process art to do. We had a blast making these! You can water how color spreads in the water.
74. Green Tree Watercolor Painting
Watercolor Process Art Green Tree Painting are great for Earth Day and Arbor day. It is fun to watch the watercolor spread for this activity.
75. Watercolor Rainbow Painting
Watercolor Rainbow Process Art is a super easy watercolor activity that kids can do! It is super fun to make the rainbow and see how pretty it is.
76. Rainbow Watercolor Pencil Painting
Rainbow Watercolor Pencil Painting is a great way to change up painting and see how much kids can fun with watching colors spread and mix with watercolor pencils.
77. Rainbow Heart Watercolor Painting
Rainbow Heart Watercolor Painting is a fun rainbow made from hearts and watercolors. And it is super fun for kids to make and display.
78. Glitter Torn Paper Rainbow with Watercolor Sky Craft
Glitter Torn Paper Rainbow with Watercolor Sky has a watercolor painting by blue with a glitter torn paper rainbow that kids can make on the background.
79. Watercolor Spring Birch Trees Painting
Easy to Paint Watercolor Spring Birch Trees is a fun spring tree painting activity. You can do a fun mix with oil pastels and watercolors.
80. Texture Watercolor Spring Tree Painting
Texture Watercolor Spring Tree is a fun watercolor painting activity. You have fun painting with textures for the tree.
81. Rain Painting with Cookie Cutters
Rain Themed Water Color Cookie Painting is a great way to do a spring painting with cookie cutters and watercolor. It is a loads of fun to do the painting.
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Summer Watercolor Paintings
82. Campfire Watercolor Painting For Kids
Campfire Watercolor Art is a great art project for the summer or fire theme. You can make your own campfire with this art project. It is a mixed art craft project for kids.
83. Flags & Star Watercolor Painting
Flags & Star Watercolor Painting is a great Fourth of July and Flag day Painting for kids. You use red and blue for painting and three sizes of stars and a flag.
84. Fish Watercolor Painting with Cookie Cutters
Fish Watercolor Painting with Cookie Cutters is a great ocean craft that kids of different ages can do. It is loads of fun to paint inside the cookie cutters. A great underwater ocean painting for kids.
85. Watercolor Fish for Swimmy Painting
This is another fun Watercolor Fish for Swimmy is a fun cookie cutter painting activity. Painting with cookie cutters is easy and super fun for kids.
86. Watercolor Ocean Animals Painting
Watercolor Ocean Animals Painting is a fun painting project with cookie cutters. It is a super fun way to make an ocean painting.
87. Beach Watercolor and Q-Tip Shell Painting
Beach Watercolor and Q-Tip Shell Painting is a fun cookie cutter painting with watercolors and q-tips! You can do this craft at the level of your kids and still have fun.
88. Shell Cookie Cutter Painting
Shell Cookie Cutter Painting is a great beach painting idea for kids. You use cookie cutter and paint inside with watercolor. Kids of different ages can do this craft together.
89. Giraffe & Lion Painting with Lions
Giraffe & Lion Painting with Lions at Lunchtime. is a really fun and easy painting of lions and giraffes. It is an easy craft that different ages could do.
90. Sunset Painting For Kids
Sunset Watercolor Painting is a great summer watercolor and oil pastel painting that you can do with kids. Plus a fun book suggestion for the painting.
91. Shark Watercolor Painting with Cookie Cutters
Shark Watercolor Painting with Cookie Cutters is done by painting inside a shark cookie cutter with watercolor paints. A great idea painting idea with kids.
92. Shark Fin Painting with Cookie Cutters Painting
Shark Fin Painting with Cookie Cutters for Kids is a simple painting activity with shark fins. This is a great mix of watercolor and paints for kids to do.
93. Shark Cookie Cutter Painting with Q-tip & Watercolors Painting
Shark Cookie Cutter Painting with Q-tip & Watercolors is a super fun shark painting activity that turns out amazing! This is another mix shark painting activity for kids.
94. Transportation Painting with Watercolors and Oil Pastels Craft
Transportation Painting with Watercolors and Oil Pastels is a fun plane and car mixed art project you can do with kids.
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