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How To Draw A Christmas Tree

You can’t have Christmas without a tree, learn how to draw a Christmas tree with us! You’ll need something to draw with, a piece of paper and a few colors. We’re using oil pastels to color our tree. In this lesson we show you one way to decorate your tree, of course you can decorate […]

Top Holiday Gift Ideas

Hey art friends here’s our picks for this year’s top holiday gift ideas! We also open mail and show your art! Watch Top Holiday Gift Ideas Shopping List Below is a list of all the items we featured in the video above. The prices reflect the particular materials we bought from Hobby Lobby. Check back soon […]

How To Fold An Origami Santa Claus

Austin and I are learning how to fold an origami Santa Claus today! So, all you’ll need for this project is a square piece of paper. We used red origami paper (affil. link) but you can use regular ol’ computer paper. Just make sure that it’s a square before starting. This project may be a […]

How To Draw A Christmas Elf Face

How to draw a Christmas elf face! This guy is going to look awesome next to your drawing of Santa Claus. I know a lot of our projects and drawings tend to focus on the “boy version” but this one should be fairly easy to make into a girl. I’m going to work with Hads on doing […]

How To Draw Santa Claus’s Face

We hope all of our art friends had an amazing Thanksgiving yesterday. Now that you’re full from turkey, let’s learn how to draw Santa Claus’s face! Are you a kid? Grab something to draw with and a piece of paper. Sit down and press play, you can draw with us while you watch. If we […]

How To Draw A Hedgehog

How to draw a hedgehog! I know hedgehogs are cute, but when I was looking for a photo to base our lesson off of…I think I overdosed on cute. Hads was watching over my shoulder and all I could hear from her was “Awwwwweee” then I would click on another photo, “Awwweeeee…” So, now we […]

How To Draw A Cheetah

Chuckers and I both think cheetahs are the coolest animals alive. We think this how to draw a cheetah is also our most favorite episode. Both of us also agreed that we need to do more realistic versions of animals. Cartoonish animals are fun, but realistic versions are so much cooler. What do you think? […]

How To Draw A Boy And A Girl

How to draw a boy and girl! The easiest way to draw people is to draw stick figures, but this lesson will show you that it doesn’t take much more to make your people look even cooler than stick figures. After you draw your people try drawing them again, but this time draw them doing […]

How To Draw A Pumpkin For Thanksgiving

We’ve made a few pumpkins before (Jack O’Lantern, Paper 3D Pumpkins), but this how to draw a pumpkin is just for Thanksgiving. So we’ll be coloring it without a scary face. Thanksgiving is a special holiday we love celebrating in our home. It’s the day we pay close attention to things we’re grateful for, oh and […]

How To Draw A Peashooter (Plants vs. Zombies)

Since we’ve already learned how to draw a zombie from Plants vs Zombies we had to learn how to draw a peashooter too! We’re also using our oil pastels again to color this plant. If you haven’t yet picked up a set of oil pastels be sure to read this post first. So grab a marker […]

How To Draw A Submarine (For Young Artists)

How to draw a submarine with little Austin! We’re back with another fun art project to do with your super young artists. When choosing activities to do with them, pick ones that use fundamental shapes and simple lines. If you were to ask a three year old to draw a submarine, they would have no […]

How To Draw The Cutest Kitten Ever

Do you want to learn how to draw the cutest kitten ever? You came to the right place. Hads is helping me with today’s episode so this activity is great for younger artists, 5 and under. All you need is something to draw with (we love using a black marker) and paper. You can also color […]

How To Draw A Realistic Turkey

Thanksgiving is getting so close I can almost taste it! That means it’s time for some holiday art projects. Grab a marker and paper we’re going to learn how to draw a turkey today. Gobble Gobble! We’ve drawn a turkey before, we’ve also finger painted a turkey, we’ve even made a turkey cutout, but those were […]

How To Draw An Airplane (For Young Artists)

Time to fly, let’s learn how to draw an airplane! We made this episode just for our totally awesome young artists. For all you art parents, we want you to draw with your little artists. It’s ok to let them draw on their own, but every once in a while pull a chair up next […]

How To Make Spider Hand Cutouts

Happy Halloween art friends! It’s here, Halloween is finally here…now let’s go get some candy 🙂 Oh wait, it’s not dark yet. If you need a little activity to hold yourself over until the haunting hour, you’ve come to right place. Today we’re making spider hand cutouts, so grab some orange and black construction paper, […]

Franken-Brain Cutout

One more day until Halloweeeeeeeeen! Today we’re making a cutout, but not just any cutout, it’s a Franken-Brain cutout. You may be asking what is that, well it’s a portrait of Frankenstein but you can lift his hair to reveal his disgusting brain. Siiiiiiick! We thought it was pretty cool 🙂 Our favorite part of […]

How To Draw A Skeleton

How to draw a skeleton, just in time for Halloween! Of course Hads made her skeleton into a girl. Grab some paper and something to draw with, click the play button and follow along. One of our favorite things about this skeleton is that you can draw him/her doing different things. It’s easy to change […]

How To Fold An Origami Spider!

Grab a sheet of printer paper. Today we’re going to show you how to fold an origami spider! Not just any spider, this has got to be the coolest origami spider ever. There are a lot of steps to this art activity, but we go through each step slow so that even our young art friends […]

How To Draw A Violin

Friday is a perfect day for another musical instrument. We’ve drawn a piano and a guitar, but today we’re learning how to draw a violin. All you’ll need for today’s lesson is a piece of paper and something to draw with. We use Sharpies so that it’ll show up easy in the video, we also like […]

How To Draw A 3D Pizza

Mmmmmm who’s hungry? Let’s learn how to draw a 3D pizza! I think this is the fist time we’ve drawn any kind of food (oh wait we’ve drawn cake before), so what better way to start than our favorite. If you liked this food drawing lesson, let us know in the comments what kind of […]

How To Draw A Hippo

We’re drawing a silly “little” hippo, grab something to draw with and follow along. After you’re done drawing your hippo, be sure to color him in! Do you think hippos are interesting animals? Read more information about them on Wikipedia! You can mail us your real art at: Art for Kids Hub P.O. Box 927 Pleasant Grove, […]

How To Make A 3D Pumpkin

We’ve already drawn a 3D pumpkin but today we’re going to show you how to make a 3D pumpkin! Here’s a list of the supplies you’ll need for this activity: Orange construction paper Green construction paper Scissors Tape Stapler

How To Fold An Origami Skull

Boo…We’re showing you how to fold an origami skull, today! Grab a white piece of paper and black marker, click the video, and follow along. Now if your skull doesn’t turn out perfect the first time, keep trying and adjust some some of those last few folds to get the teeth to line up. Worse […]

How To Paint A Black Cat

Today we’re learning how to paint a black cat and it’s especially for our younger artists! The art supplies you’ll need for this activity are: Paint (we used acrylics but you can use any) Paper (we used orange construction paper) Paint brushes Paint tray (or plate) Water Paper towels The steps for this activity are […]

Winners Of Our 2014 Fall Art Contest!

Hey art friends, We’re excited to announce the winners of our 2014 Fall Art Contest, today! Though we are sad we couldn’t pick all of you. We loved all of the submissions received for this contest, it was a blast looking through all of them. We hope you had fun participating, and please look forward […]

Best Oil Pastels For Kids

Have you ever held two boxes of crayons, one from Crayola and one from Roseart and wondered which one you should buy? Do you always choose the cheaper one, or do you go with the “trusted” Crayola? If you’re like me, often you’ll just buy the cheapest…after all it’s just for the kids, right? And […]

How To Fold An Origami Bat

Learn how to fold an origami bat! Grab a square piece of paper and follow along to fold your own super cool Halloween bat. We used yellow origami paper so that the folds would show up better in the video, but if you have black paper use it! Also remember that today is Friday, the last […]

Coloring An Autumn Leaf With Oil Pastels

We’re coloring an Autumn leaf with oil pastels! All you need for today’s art project are the following supplies: Oil pastels The free printable (below) This lesson is specific to oil pastels, but you can adapt it using crayons, colored pencils, or maybe even markers. I’m also very particular about the brand of oil pastels we use (I’ve […]

How To Paint A Bat

We’re learning how to paint a bat, with Austin! All you’ll need for this activity is: Paint (black, white, and one other color) Paper (we used orange) Paint brushes Paint tray Water Paper towel He’s still only three, so we’re keeping this lesson extremely easy. If your kid is still learn the circle shape, be […]

How To Draw A 3D Jack O Lantern

Follow along with us and learn how to draw a 3D jack o lantern! It’s fun to see all the pumpkins in the neighborhood beginning to appear. It sure gets us in the Halloween mood. This drawing episode is a really fun way to learn how to add dimension or 3D to your jack o’lantern […]