November 12, 2022
Picasso Craft Felt Art

Picasso Craft Felt Art

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Pablo Picasso is one of the most well-known of the famous artists. That said, chances are that your young child may not have heard of him. While Picasso worked primarily in paints, this kids’ Picasso Craft Felt Art activity can help your child to understand the art of the famed cubist through craft felt. Use this idea for Picasso crafts with preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd grade students.

Pablo Picasso is one of the most well-known of the famous artists. That said, chances are that your young child may not have heard of him. While Picasso worked primarily in paints, this kids’ Picasso Craft Felt Art activity can help your child to understand the art of the famed cubist through craft felt. Use this idea for Picasso crafts with preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd grade students. 

Picasso craft

Well, your child is going to take apart a portrait—transforming it from a realistic looking piece of art to something a bit more abstract. This activity doesn’t just teach your child about a historically significant artist. It also helps her to build problem-solving and critical thinking skills, develop fine motor abilities and explore math (shapes and patterns).

 

Before your child gets to the art-making, start with a brief discussion about the artist. Take a look at a few of the artist’s works (such as “Ma jolie” or “Le guitarist”). Don’t worry if you can’t go to a museum and see one of these masterpieces in real life. Look for reproductions (posters or postcards) or find pictures of the paintings in art books or online. As your child looks at Picasso’s works, ask her what she sees. Continue with a few open-ended questions, such as, “What can you find in this picture?” or, “Why do you think Picasso made art in this way?”
art project for kids using felt

Pablo Picasso for Kids Activities

And, now on to the art-making. Instead of paints, this famous artist kids’ art activity uses craft felt. This makes it possible to reuse the activity over and over again. Your child can build critical thinking
skills, puzzling together the felt, observing what happens and evaluating the results. She can then take apart her cubist creation and figure out how to re-make it! When she’s done getting artsy for the day, pack up the felt pieces (but them in a bag) and save them for later. Your child can try the activity out again tomorrow, next week or any time that she wants.

face craft for kids

Felt Art for Kids

  • Craft felt sheets (or scrap craft felt) in different colors
  • Scissors
Choose a subject for the portrait. Ask your child who she wants to create in felt. This could be a self-portrait or a portrait of someone she knows (such as you or a sibling). She can also choose to go with an imaginary portrait, imagining her own person or using a character (from a book or movie) as inspiration.

Cut out felt shapes. Your child can start with the face, creating a circle. If it’s a challenge for your child to cut out the shapes freehand, have her draw them onto the felt with a marker first. She’ll also

need smaller shapes to make eyes, ears, a nose, a mouth and hair.

Felt Art for Kids

Arrange the portrait on a solid piece of felt (you can use an 8×10-inch felt sheet). As your child presses the pieces on, they’ll stick together (creating a DIY felt board). Before your child lets her inner Picasso out, she can craft a realistic portrait. This gives her the chance to name the different facial features, and put them in the correct places.

Famous Artists for Kids

Remove the felt pieces from the face circle.

Rearrange the shapes in a not-so-realistic style. Your child can be her own Picasso, and put the eyes where the mouth goes, make a grid with felt hair strands or just get as creative as she wants!
sample of famous artists report from Jackson Polluck

Grab our artist report to help kids write down what they learn about famous arists and add a picture of their art project to make a fun keepsake of their homeschool art appreciation class.

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