Oil pastel crafts

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This beautiful watercolor butterfly painting combines oil pastels and watercolors. Kids will learn easy watercolor techniques to create this wow-worthy art!

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Learn how to make your own DIY scratch art paper! This simple kids' craft uses oil pastels, paint, dish soap, and paper, and the process is a great opportunity for child participation. Kids will love scratching out drawings and illustrations to create colorful projects with this fun technique that feels like art magic. A great DIY art supply for elementary art classrooms or to keep on hand at home for rainy days! | from barley & birch

Try out this super easy and fun way to create colorful line drawings using oil pastels and a paper transfer technique.

Try out this oil pastel candle art lesson for illuminating and expressive results! All you need is oil pastels and paper.

To get started with oil pastels, I picked simple objects around my house. I found that drawing everyday items like a cup of coffee or a small plant helped me get comfortable. By focusing on these simple subjects, I could experiment with colors and learn how to blend them seamlessly. It was all about getting the basics right and not worrying too much about making everything perfect. After a few tries, I decided to step outside and draw from nature. Trees, flowers, and landscapes became my new…

Kids will love creating this gorgeous watercolor flower painting! Use an easy watercolor resist technique to make this colorful art project that is perfect for spring or summer.

Coloring on black paper with oil pastels is an all-time favorite art activity in our house. If you don’t have oil pastels on hand, I highly recommend you pick up a box or two and then try this warm sun and cool water art project. The drawing and coloring is simple enough for preschoolers, but older … Continued

For our final project before the Christmas break, my Grade 7-9 students chose, from online reference images, any shiny holiday themed object to draw. The focus as to get a nice sharp highlight to showcase the object's shiny or reflective surface. Candy canes were obviously popular, but some students tried something a bit more challenging. Students used laptops to search for images online. Then they drew a contour drawing of their object on lilac construction paper. If they were drawing a…