Watercolor monsters. Staring monsters. Whatever you want to call them. They’re easy to make, don’t cost the earth, and are a lot of fun!
If you want to know more: The little man and I recently made monsters out of watercolors.
watercolor monster
It’s been a few days since we made the watercolor monsters.
Monsters made of watercolors – A fun DIY for young and old | More information at www.milchtropfen.de
I didn’t want to keep this cool idea from you, which I discovered in my crafting group on Facebook. It’s really cheap and, above all, so easy that both the little ones and the big ones will have fun with it. But everyone in their own way, as you’ll soon find out.
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materials
What you need to bring little watercolor monsters to life:
White paper – Should be thicker. We had large but quite thin 120 g/m² paper, which soaked through over time… Not so cool…
Watercolors * – You can use simple ink, but the colors look quite watery. Next time I would probably go for acrylic paints *, they shine beautifully.
Paint brush *
container with water
straws *
newspaper for laying
Googly eyes* – You can either use self-adhesive ones or ones that you have to stick on. In this case you will also need
glue*
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crafting instructions
The newspaper is the first thing to go. You put it underneath so that cleaning up doesn’t take so long at the end.
Put the paper on, get everything ready and then you can get started.
You dab a drop of paint onto the cambodia mobile database paper and blow it in all directions with the straw. The paint moves across the paper until it dries.
Straw blows watercolor in different directions
You do this until you lose interest. It took a while for my then almost 2-year-old.
Everyone as they like
The little man didn’t have much breath despite the straw. He’s a master at blowing out candles, but today it just wasn’t going to work out.
He preferred to glue the eyes to the paper…
Child sticks googly eyes on watercolor monster
…or stabbed the paper with the brush…
Child paints with full vigor with brush on paper
… or scratched the drops with the straw. This also created some very pretty patterns…
Colorful blobs of watercolor on white paper
Afterwards, Oliver painted the paint box…
Child paints with finger in paint box
At least he found his own ways of being creative. And painting with your hands is what are micro and macro conversions much more fun, don’t you think?
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We took a long break in between and then sat down again after our afternoon nap. But then the oven was off and Oliver really didn’t feel like sticking eyes on anymore. That’s why our picture looks pretty unfinished now. So agb directory many eyeless monsters. But my goodness, eyes don’t really have to go on. I think it looks really cool as it is. Theoretically, you could also draw them on with pens once everything has dried.
Watercolor Monster – finished picture
Who knows. Maybe after a few days’ break we’ll feel like continuing again. So that the monsters can see something too.