Author: Cristina Ibarez

If you are someone who enjoys arts and crafts you have found the perfect post. Painting can be quite expensive if you are considering oil paints and professional art supplies, but you can make art by using items that you can find outside!! Nature holds all colors possible in flowers, grass, soil etc… By compressing things such as leafs, flowers, grass, etc… and mixing these items with some water you can easily make water color paint. It as a very easy activity to create and it would even save you some money. Not only that but you can also create natural paint brushes by attaching grass or flowers to small branches with a rubber band; this will create different stroke patterns and it is also money efficient. Truly you can do these activities without spending a single dollar because all the materials you need are right out of your door. You can do these activities with friends or if you have an audience of smaller children, they would love this. It enhances fine motor skills and lets them explore different mediums and textures.