Have your kids tried blow painting before? It is so fun and creates a wonderful effect of merged colours and shapes. Why not try it for yourself with this fun BLOW PAINT LION CRAFT?
These blow painted lions are so colourful and cute! What’s more they’re really easy to make because I’ve created a FREE PRINTABLE LION TEMPLATE to help you.
This easy lion art and craft idea is great fun for kids of all ages. It’s even simple enough for your toddlers and preschoolers to enjoy.
It’s a lovely lion craft idea to go with your favourite lion story book or perhaps a visit to a zoo or safari park if you’re lucky enough to have one near you.
If you’ve got a little lion fan then you must check out some of our other lion craft ideas too. We’ve got a lovely Scrape Painted Lion (another fun painting method), gorgeous Paper Bag Lions with furry manes, Lion Masks you can wear and super cute and fun Lion Finger Puppets!
Fun Lion Blow Paint Craft
Supplies:
- Free Printable Lion Craft Template (Get yours at the bottom of this post.)
- Printer Cardstock
- Paints
- Straws
- Yellow Cardstock
- Marker Pen
- Little Pots (Egg Cups)
- Scissors
- Glue
How to Blow Paint a Colourful Lion
1 – Download and print the free lion craft template. (Get yours at the bottom of this tutorial.)
2 – We used acrylic paint, so to make it runny enough to blow we put a little squirt into an egg cup and then stirred in a little water.
3 – Add some drops of watered down paint colours onto the round circle.
3 – Have fun blowing the paint, through a straw, in any direct you like. It’s great to see the colours merge and change. (Make sure children know to blow not suck!)
4 – We enjoyed the blow painting method so much that we even coloured the face in by blow painting, even though it was only yellow!
5 – We really wanted the blow painted lions face and mane to stand out so we decided not to paint the body and tail but to cut it out of yellow cardstock instead.
6 – Once your blow painting is dry, glue the face onto the middle of the lion’s mane.
7 – Then glue the head onto the lion’s body and then add the tail too. we snipped into the tail to give it a hairy texture.
8 – We finished off our Blow Paint Lion Craft by drawing on some feet and hair strands on the tail.
I hope you like this lion art idea. Remember you can always share your own arts and crafts with us on social media. We love seeing what you create!
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