Our free resource art site, MakingArtFun.com, features the biographies of our major artists, along with a collection of printable resources and lesson ideas that make learning fun!

Want to give your kids the opportunity to discover their inner Picasso? It all begins with connecting kids with great resources that engage them and teach them what they need to know to succeed.

Here’s five fantastic Picasso-centered art projects/activities from our site and others, that are sure to excite your young artist. Start be introducing your child to Picasso with a biography about his life and work. Then dive into the activities.

Hey Kids, Meet Pablo Picasso – Biography for Kids
Pablo Picasso was born on October 25,1881 in Malaga, Spain. He was the first child of Don Jose Ruiz y Blasco, an art teacher, and Maria Picasso y Lopez. At an early age Pablo showed an interest in drawing. His first words were “piz, piz”, which is short for “lapiz”, the Spanish word for pencil…

Paint Your Own Picasso – Interactive Activity
Paint Your Own Picasso is an online activity that provides kids with cubist facial features that they can drag to the pre-drawn face, and then arrange until it looks perfect. When your masterpiece is complete you can print it.

Mr. Picasso Head – Interactive Activity
Mr. Picasso Head is another online resource for kids, providing them with graphics to drag, drop, and arrange their own cubist-style portrait. Change the colors, or resize, flip or rotate the features. When your masterpiece is complete, sign it, and add it to their Gallery.

Picasso Art Masterpiece Cookies
Art has never been this delicious! This project gives kids a chance to turn a sugar cookie in cubist style art.

Materials:
4″ Sugar Cookies
Frosting
Food Coloring
Popsicle Sticks
Icing Bag

Create a Cubist Montage
This art project helps kids to understand that cubist art works show the same thing from several sides at the same time. Kids will create a cubist work with magazine clippings, assembling and gluing eyes, hair, noses and lips from multiple angles.

Materials:
Photographs of People
Scissors
Glue
Paper for Base of the Collage
Colored Pencils, Markers, or Paints
Acrylic Varnish
Paintbrush

Picasso Self Portrait | Coloring Page
Make it simple. Grab you crayons and print this free printable coloring page of Picasso’s self portrait. Encourage your kids to observe the colors and brush patterns in this work, and reproduce it as best they are able.

Picasso’s Three Musician’s Watercolor Project
This watercolor project is a printable step-by-step introduction to the art of Pablo Picasso. It offers basic watercolor painting techniques, while guiding students in the painting of the harlequin musician from Picasso’s Three Musicians of 1905.

Materials:
Watercolor Paints
Watercolor Paper
Watercolor Paint Brush
Pencil
Cup of Water
Paper Towel (to blot those unexpected mistakes)

Have fun!

Are you interested in learning the basics of watercolor, though you’d rather not paint fruit?

Our free resource art site, MakingArtFun.com, which features the biographies of our major artists, along with a collection of printable resources and lesson ideas, has just created a series of free printable watercolor lesson plans. These introductory watercoloring lessons are designed to appeal to the funny side of your brain. Following a step-by-step approach, you’ll learn basic watercolor painting techniques as you paint characters and scenes that are sure to make you giggle!

Retro Robot | “Learn to Watercolor” Project

“Make a Wish” Fairy | “Learn to Watercolor” Project

The Little Engine That Could | “Learn to Watercolor” Project

Monkey Loves Banana | “Learn to Watercolor” Project

Snork Monster | “Learn to Watercolor” Project

Whimsical Flight | “Learn to Watercolor” Project

What you’ll need for these watercolor projects:

Watercolor Paint Box
Watercolor sets should provide rich and wonderfully satisfying color. A Reeves or Prang watercolor set offer just this at an economical price.

Watercolor Paper
Watercolor paper is a special paper that’s thick enough to take a soaking and still stay flat. It comes in different textures and weights (thicknesses). A 140lb textured paper is recommended.

Watercolor Brush
Different brushes give different results. A medium-sized (#5) round brush is perfect to get you started.

Watercolor Pallet
Your local art/craft store offers a variety of watercolor pallets if you would like to purchase one. However, a paper plate covered in plastic wrap will work just fine.

Pencil
Art pencils are available in soft and hard leads. However, your #2 school pencil will work just fine.