Art For Kids Hub

Art projects for kids and the whole family!

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 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 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 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 Betta Fish

Watch the video below and follow along to learn how to draw a betta fish! Most all of our videos are requests from you, our art friends! We love getting requests, so thank you all for sending them in. Sorry, we’re not able to do all of them, but we always appreciate the new ideas. […]

Speed Drawing Of An Owl

Hey art friends! Here’s my speed drawing of an owl. Over the weekend I thought I’d try something a little different. I recorded this video on my own, and then sped it up. Let me know in the comments below or on YouTube if you liked this and think I should do more. Don’t worry we’ll […]

Art Contest For Our Younger Art Friends

Hey art friends! We’ve already been talking about our 2014 Fall Art Contest, but it was only for kids ages 7-12. Well now we’ve opened it up to kids 6 years old and under! The details are all the same except use a different hashtag on Instagram #afkhfall14a https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmjV0dWnCZY Here are the details (ask parent […]

How To Draw A Mermaid

Learn how to draw a mermaid in a few steps! Hads is doing another drawing with me today, and this one is even cuter than the poodle…ok some may argue that. Well, we hope you have as much fun as we did drawing this mermaid. This would be a lot of fun to color, so […]

How To Draw A Train

How to draw a train…choooo choooo! YES, we’re definitely on a vehicle kick. Trains are very cool, and this one was a lot of fun to draw. In this lesson we use many straight lines without a ruler, but feel free to use a straight edge if you want. They’re nice to use but will add extra […]

Fall 2014 Art Contest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83hedYevvkw Fall 2014 Art Contest Details: Kids ask your parents or an adult for permission and help. 1. This contest is for kids between the age of 7-12 (We’ll announce the art contest for kids under 7, soon!) 2. Draw, paint, sculpt, and color anything that has to do with FALL 3. Ask a parent […]

How To Draw A Dump Truck

Follow along and learn how to draw a dump truck. We found a new fun series we’ll be adding to, every so often…construction trucks! Chuckers helped me with this episode though I feel this lesson would be easy enough for younger artists.  Remember if we ever go too fast during the video, just pause it to catch […]