January 25, 2024

Picasso for Kids – Zany Portrait Art Project

Children will love this zany picasso for kids project where they will learn about this spanish painter known for cubism and modernism. This picasso art project is a fun way to intorduce preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grdae, and 4th grade students to this famous artist for kids! THis easy picasso portraits for kids is a picasso art project kids will always remember! SO grab some paint, paper, glue, and scissors to make this fun picasso kids art.

Picasso for Kids

Growing up in Europe, my Dad took us to all the great art museums. And although I wish I could say I always appreciated it, I can say that I learned to appreciate art. Not all art mind you, there is still some modern art that I look at & say – my 1 year old could do better. So when we decided to homeschool, I wanted to make sure to teach my kids to appreciate art from a young age. Learning to appreciate a variety of art is like teaching a child to appreciate that we are all unique and special. This picassor for kids lesson helps kids learn about famous artists Picasso with a really unique and silly picasso portrait art project for kids! This picasso art for kids is fun for toddlers, preschoolers, kindergartners, grade 1, grade 2, grade 3, and grade 4 students.

Picasso for children

I introduced my kids to Pablo Picasso (from Spain) and his artwork. Goofy (6 ) was ready for the wonderful series Getting to know the World’s Greatest Artists: Picasso. (There are some of them available in video form that are a lot of fun. They present the information, actual artwork, and silly cartoons alongside – educational & fun!). Minnie (3 ) enjoyed Painting with Picasso, and Museum ABC. They both enjoyed When Pigasso met Mootisee – a fun story about two famous artists Picasso & Matisse who were in face in real life friends as the story suggests.

The kids colored in some of Picasso’s works of art from the Modern Art Masterpiece coloring book. Such a clever thing! It is a great way to very gently introduce kids to a variety of famous art.

Picasso loved making pictures of clowns. We used the idea in The Usborne Art Treasury to make our own clown collage. We painted the background and then we cut & pasted shapes to make the juggling clown.

Picasso for Kindergarten

Picasso went through a time after his friend died when his artwork was not appreciated and he was going hungry. All this was reflected in his paintings and he went through a “blue period” where he painted in shades of blue & mostly sad topics. We made our own “blue” picture.

Picasso art for kids

Picasso painted things in new & interesting ways. He was not worried about making things look exactly like they are “suppose” to, but he was able to emote a lot of feelings in his artwork. To make our own unique Picasso (idea from Discovering the World’s Great Artists) we painted a picture of Goofy. Then we cut it up & put it back together in a more creative way.

Goofy Self-Portrait Project a la Picasso

Picasso kids

We use this wonderful program called Child-size Masterpieces to play a memory-type game with famous artwork. The program uses museum quality postcards of famous artwork. The kids match them up first with the exact same picture, then by artists, and eventually by genre. There are I believe 6 books and each adds to the complexity. By the time the kids finish they will be familiar not only with a variety of artwork, artists, and styles, but will be able to match artists to their artwork.

Picasso art project

Finally, there is a really neat puzzle of Guernica I include below in the Picasso Resources. My kids are a little young for a 1000 pieces puzzle, but when they get a little older we will be doing it too! If you’ve never seen Guernica or read about it – you should. I was very disappointed as a young person seeing Mona Lisa for the first time – don’t get me wrong the painting is beautiful, but it was… well… so small! Guernica does not disappoint, it is a HUGE – 12 x 15 feet!! I have gotten to see it on at least two occasions and find it to be very moving. I wont get into the whole back story here…but if you like art or WW2 at all, you should look it up.

Do you have a favorite art resource? I’d love to see it! Leave me a note in the comments section. And as always, I love comments!!

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Are you teaching your children about famous artists for kids? Helping kids learn to appreciate art and different techniques is such a great activity. Whether you are studying monet, van gogh, picasso, mondrian, or one of the other many popular artists - these artist report pages are a great way for kids to remember what they learn. Use these famous artists worksheets with kindergarten, first graders, 2nd graders, 3rd graders, 4th grader, 5th graders, 6th graders, 7th graders, and 8th graders. Simply download pdf file with artist report template and you are ready to create and learn!

Teaching kids about famous artist Monet with this fun Monet art projects. This easy-to-make tissue paper craft makes a beautiful Monet Art Project for Kids that will brighten up any room while helping to explore a famous artists for kids while having fun creating beautiful art, slowing down to appreciate the pretty things around us, and learning to express themselves too. This art projects for kids is perfect for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, and 6th grade students.

You are going to love this simple-to-make and creative art project for kids. You can create abstract art or art projects based on famous artists. We opted to make a starry night for kids tin foil project. I love the dimmension this technique gave to our van gogh art project. This aluminum foil art makes a great summer activity for kids of all ages from preschool, pre-k, kinderagrten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, 6th graders, and up!

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Famous artists for kids

Free Famous Artists Worksheets
Giotto for kids Medieval art project with homemade egg chalk paint
Kadinsky for kids leaf project
Paul Klee for Kids felt square project
Matisse for Kids valentines art project or this Matisse craft collage
Piet Mondrian for Kids primary boxes project
Monet for Kids tissue paper project or this monet painting style idea
Picasso for Kids portrait project or this felt art picasso craft
Pollock – Simple and fun Jackson Pollock for Kids art project
Seurat for kids melted crayon art project
VanGogh Starry Night Art Project with tin foil, van gogh sunflower for kids construction paper craft, or playdough starry night art project
Warhol for kids father’s day art project
Impressionism art easy or pointillism art for kids
See all of our famous artists for kids art projects and TONS more arts and crafts for kids

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Kids will have fun learning all their letters with these fun alphabet crafts. There is a fun letter craft for each letter from A to Z. These alphabet crafts for toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergartners are fun and easy-t0-make with construction paper, scissors, and glue!

Get ready to say WOW! You and your kids are going to love making this clever and beautiful tin foil art! This Amazing aluminum foil art uses a simple technique to make a truly stunning work of art from simple flowers to butterflies, crosses to houses, animals to any picture or design you can dream up. Try making foil art for kids from toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and elementary age kids in first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, and 4th graders too. All you need are a few simple materials to make a stunning work of art with this tin foil crafts.

name recognition camping craft for preschoolers

Kids will have a blast making this bauble craft with our free ornament printables and construction paper! This snowman ornament craft makes beautiful diy snowman ornaments to decorate your tree this holiday season! Try this Christmas ornament crafts for kids from toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, and up! Simply print christmas printables and you are ready to make this Christmas crafts for preschoolers.

Beautiful snowflake craft for kids using chromatography creates colorful Christmas or winter craft ideas to use as decorations!

Whether fall has just started and you are looking for a pretty Autumn craft for kids or you have beautiful colored leaves raining down around you, these leaf crafts for kids are lots of fun. Try these leaf activities with toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, and 4th graders. You will love the creative and unique fall leaf projects for kids of all ages. Which of these ideas will you try first?

This super cute name craft is perfect for October! Simply print the spider printable pdf to make this name craft for preschoolers, toddlers, and kindergartners. Children will work on letter recogniton and learning their name as they make the spider craft and add in all the spider letters of their name. This is such a fun halloween activity!

This quick and easy pumpkin puffy paint recipes is great for making really pretty and fun-to-make fall pumpkins. we will show you how to make puffy paint to use in pumpkin crafts for kids. These fall crafts are great for toddlers, preschoolers, kindergartners, grade 1, and grade 2 students. This open-ended autumn craft is sure to be a favorite at your house!

This gorgeous paper plate apple craft makes such a lovely apple craft for kids to make in September, for an apple theme, or as they celebrate with a back to school craft. The apple crafts preschool, toddler, pres-k, kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd graders creates a cross section of an apple using a variety of techniques that strengthen coordination and hand muscles while creating a apple art project.

Looking for a really pretty, fun-to-make apple craft? This apple craft for kids is not only an easy apple craft, but cute and gret process art too. Try this apple craft for kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, preschool, pre-k, and toddler children as September crafts, engaging apple art and craft for your upcoing Apple theme, or a fall craft for kids.

Kids are going to love this simple, fun to make bleeding tissue paper firework craft! All you need are a few simple materials to try this firework crafts project with toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade,2nd grade, 3rd grade, and 4th grade students. There are so many fun variations with these firework craft ideas from independence day crafts to summer crafts for kids. Kids will love recreating these colorful fireworks for kids with a fun, SIMPLE, and beautiful fireworks craft for kids.

This pretty butterfly craft is as fun to make as it is beautiful! This shaving cream craft is surprisingly SIMPLE to make, but with incredibly complex colors in the marbling of painting with shaving cream. Toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, and up will want to make this butterfly craft for kids! So add this shaving cream art project to your bucket list of summer crafts for kids!

So many super cute flower crafts for kids using various different pasta noodles. These pasta crafts make beautiful and creative flower art for kids. We have so many flower craft ideas for preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade and more to make as summer crafts for kids. From bowtie hibiscus to penne sunflowers, orecchiette pasta gladiolus to rotini asters, stellini hyacinth to castelane tulips - we have so many fun, easy flower crafts.

Make a pretty blooming hyacinth craft to celebrate the arrival of spring. This clever flower craft uses gift bows to make this EASY project!

Looking for fun pasta crafts to make with leftover dyed pasta? This super pretty mosaic pasta project allows kids to create beautiful pasta pictures by pressing different colored noodles into clay. This pasta art is such a fun, engaging craft for kids of all ages from toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd graders too.

Looking for a really fun and easy-to-make shamrock craft? This cute St Patricks Day Art project uses a template to make this st Patrick's day preschool craft simple enough for toddler, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd graders too. All you need is black glue and colorful sharpie markers to make a truly beautiful four leaf clover or rainbow suncatcher craft. Simply download pdf file with st patrick's day printable and you are ready to get crafty!

This super cute Dr Seuss Craft features the cute, curious, and sometimes mischevious Thing 1 2 3. So it is only fitting to make a cute thing 1 and thing 2 handprint craft featuring children who are too. Use this thing 1 and thing 2 craft to celebrate Dr Seuss Day in March with a super cute and fun-to-make hand art project. This dr seuss activities for preschoolers is perfect for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd grade students to celebrate a beloved children's author on his birthday!

Snowly owls are so beautiful and kids go nuts over the cute snowy owl babies! Although they live in the arctic, they have been seen as far south as Tennessee and Georgia. Whether you get a chance to see one in person, are looking for a cute winter craft for kids, or are doing an owls theme. This adorable owl craft is a must! This snowy owl craft for kids is a fun project for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd grade students. This owl crafts for kids is fun and easy to make this January!

Crafts Ideas for Kids

Looking for more craft projects for kids? Check out these fun ideas!

Paper Roll Bunny Craft, gorgoue turkey craft, clever spider craftivity, puffy paint pumpkin crafts, stunning corn art projects, yarn wrapped leaf crafts for preschoolers, paper plate apple crafts, mixed medium apple art preschool, gorgeous pasta butterfly craft, or fun puffy paint ice cream craft
100 Amazing Zoo Animal Crafts, lots of cute preschool apple crafts, and easy tin foil art projects are fun-to-make and so pretty!
Fish craft template, Elephant Craft Bookmark, Painted Flower Craft Preschool, or Creative Pipe Cleaner Crafts kids will want to make, rocket space craft for kids
Stunning Tissue Paper Rainbow Craft, name craft template for camping crafts for preschoolers
Bubble Wrap Painting Rain Craft, cute sun craft preschool, outrageously Cute Googly Eye Crafts
Tissue Paper Butterfly Suncatcher Craft, Star Wars Crafts that are from a galaxy far, far away, Super cute Thing 1 and Thing 2 Craft
Must-try Popsicle Stick Crafts, Over 100 Fun Spring Crafts for Kids, fun Spin Art Flower Craft for Kids
Spectacular tissue paper fireworks craft, shaving cream butterfly craft, pretty pasta flowers,
This Monet art project for kids is a fun way to introduce famous artists for kids with a stunning project!
Lovely Coffee Filter Crafts for kids, check out these toilet paper roll crafts, try these paper plate crafts for all occasions
Beautiful leaf crafts for preschoolers, clever Fall Crafts for Kids, silly Monster Crafts for kids of all ages
Cute Handprint Alphabet Crafts, Letter Crafts sorted A-Z, or free printable alphabet crafts
Hyacinth flower spring crafts, pasta mosaic art, st patricks day art with free template, Dr Seuss thing 1 and thing 2 handprint craft
Fork paintd snowy owl craft, bubble wrap umbrella craft preschool, wreath printable easter crafts, or turkey hat craft
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Beth Gorden

Beth Gorden is the creative multi-tasking creator of 123 Homeschool 4 Me. As a busy homeschooling mother of six, she strives to create hands-on learning activities and worksheets that kids will love to make learning FUN! With over 20 years educating children, she has created over 1 million pages of printables to help teach kids alphabet, math, science, English grammar, history, and so much more! Beth is also the creator of 2 additional sites with even more educational activities and FREE printables – www.kindergartenworksheetsandgames.com and www.preschoolplayandlearn.com. Beth studied at the University of Northwestern where she got a double major to make her effective at teaching children while making education FUN!