Amazing Tin Foil Art

Get ready to say WOW! You and your kids are going to love making this clever craft for kids! This Amazing Tin Foil Craft for Kids is perfect for Toddler, Preschool, Kindergarten, and elementary age kids too.

Tin Foil Art

This is one of my favorite crafts we’ve done ever. This art project is simple to make and lots of fun too. The tecnique is really easy, but the possibilities are endless. Kids can use their imaginations to recreate something they love, seasonal image, favorite character, geometric shapes – the possibilities for creativity really go on and one. And the end results of the kids craft are truly breathtaking!

HINT: Add this to your art class with grade 1, grade 2, grade 3, grade 4, grade 5, grade 6, grade 7, grade 8, high school, toddler, preschool, prek, kindergarten, or adult learners. Plus this is a great craft if you are learning about the middle ages for kids!

Foil Craft

Whether you are a parent, teacher, homeschooler, art teacher, planning an art day camp, or just filling your summer bucket list filled with epic summer activities for kids – this one-of-a-kind project for kids is not to be missed. All you need are a few simple supplies you probably already have at home:

Here’s what you need:

Cardboard – from an Amazon box, cereal box, or for a perfect shape use a cake board
glue gun with lots of refills
Glue cartridges
Liquid glue (white or clear – doesn’t matter)
Tin Foil – you will need a roll that is as wide as our cardboard piece
sharpies markers

Plus imagination to make this fun aluminum foil art projects with kids from toddlers, preschoolers, pre k, kindergartners, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, 6th grade, 7th grade, 8th grade, and high school. Honestly – even adults with enjoy this art project!

Aluminum Foil Crafts

Start out by your or your child drawing a picture on cardboard with pen, pencil, marker, or whatever other writing utencil you like – it wont be seen so use whatever you ahve handy.

We found using a cake board gave us a sturdy, perfect size! Again, you can make a scene from nature, trace your favorite character like Mickey Mouse from a coloring page, make geometric shapes, or whatever else you like. We did ours as an Easter craft and wanted to make a stained glass window project featuring a cross in the center.

Now use a glue gun to carefully trace all the lines of your picture. The bigger and more intricate your picture, the more glue you will use and the more time it will take to trace all the lines with glue. Plan that you will need several refills – so plan accordingly.

When you finish tracing the lines with glue, you will have a neat looking picture. Once it is cool to the touch, students will enjoy sliding their fingers over the bumpy picture. Tell them to close their eyes and try to see the picture with their fingers. Help them grasp that blind people would see this tin foil crafts with their hands!

Take a look at the neat effect that adding the glue height gives.

For an extension activity, have students put a piece of plane white printer paper over top and use a crayon to take a rubbing of your aluminum foil art.

Now using a cotton ball or thick paper towel spread a thin layer of liquid glue all over the cardboard from edge to edge. You want glue over every square inch of the cardboard. We used elmers white school glue for our project.

Aluminum Foil Craft Ideas

Now it’s time to decorate your foil art. The next step is to carefully cover your cardboard with a large sheet of foil. Start pressing down in the middle and smooth out so that the glue gun beads are tight and clearly seen with surrounding areas flush with the cardboard. Keep going outwards and tuck remaining 4” on all sides on the back.

Hint: If you keep the dull side up it is easier to see the sharpie colors!

Use sharpies markers to color on the foil. Don’t color on the glue lines as they will make it “POP”
Remember sharpies are permanent markers so cover your table, furniture, and be mindful of your childrens clothes as well.

Keep designs simple for younger children. This not only makes it more developmentally appropriate, but will also cut down on the mess risk of using sharpies.

My daughter choose to make a Disney inspired tin foil art. Can you see Rapunzel’s tower, her long braided hair, and the floating lanterns. I thought this one came out super cool!

My son made a stained glass window craft with a cross in the middle. I love the vivid colors in his foil art. This would be a great Easter Craft for Kids or to use with a Medieval Unit for homeschoolers.

This was a really fun kids activities that my kids wanted to make more of very quickly! Besides making beautiful artwork for our home, it makes a great present for grandparents too!

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