Tracing paper crafts

I have done this project several times with children and it is always successful ! Children like building with icecream sticks and most of all copying and drawing on transparent tracing pape…

Illustrator Sonia Alins (previously) creates evocative aquatic scenes using a combination of two and three dimensional elements. Smooth, translucent vellum creates the visual effect of water, and Alins sometimes inserts tufts of colored thread or small sheets of tulle to invoke the ocean floor’s textural topography. Alins then creates carefully placed slits in the vellumContinue reading "Deep Ocean Waters Amplify Emotions in Sonia Alins’ Evocative Mixed Media Illustrations"

What is Tracing Paper used for? Tracing paper is used to create a precise copy of a design. Commonly used by artists and other trad...

Educational and craft activities for kids and parents

How to print on tracing paper for junk journals and scrapbooking

Earth Day Recycled Magazine Handprint 🌎 We are celebrating Earth Day by creating a handprint craft using images from old magazines! To begin, we cut out blue and green images from magazines and old greeting cards. After collecting enough clippings, we arranged them in a collage. Next, we traced our handprints onto a sheet of paper and cut them out. With the collage as our backdrop, we placed the handprint cutouts on top. It was a fun and eco-frierndly way to celebrate our planet and pro...

Try a few new ideas for making leaf prints and show kids some of the science as you create! Great nature & STEM activity!

🌿Anna☀️| Crafts, Play & Learning on Instagram: "Tracing Paper Bugs 🐞 If there is one thing that holds my daughter's attention for ages, it's drawing! I explained to her the magic of tracing paper (how we can copy any image easily using it!) Which she found very exciting! We used our Flower transfers book to trace loads of different flowers! I had the idea to make these little bug templates which we could decorate using our tracing paper images. The little ones asked 'which flowers…

Waste time... productively!

If you were here yesterday, then you know that today I have a little tutorial for a super-easy short cut for getting an image transferred onto fabric. This is for those of us without fancy cutting machines or special materials around, unless you count wax paper as a special material, which sometimes I do! Here's the pillow, which I showed you yesterday, with the turkey silhouette we're going to be working with today. Before we get into it, let me tell you,we are going to get real close…