M.C. Escher’s art continues to amaze people all over the world. His many nature-themed tessellations are both lovely and brilliant.

I love children’s mosaic art projects, especially ones that are guaranteed to lay down nice and flat, like with this colored masking tape.

MATERIALS

• Colored masking tape
• Scissors
• Black card stock paper

DIRECTIONS
1. Beginning with 1″ green tape, cut strips into squares and line up across the bottom of a sheet of black paper.
2. Use purple tape squares to make the inside curve of the rainbow.
3. Continue adding rows of blue, light green, yellow, orange and red.
4. Finish off with rows of light blue for the sky.

Any kid can draw a flower, but are they aware of the many different shapes and sizes that exist?

MATERIALS
• Watercolor paper
• Black Sharpie marker
• Liquid watercolor paint
DIRECTIONS
1. I started by drawing a large collection of flowers on my sample piece. The kids can draw the grass line in pencil first then add at least three large flowers spaced evenly across the page. Have them fill in the spaces between the large flowers with smaller flowers.
2. Trace their artwork with a black permanent marker like a Sharpie.
3. The flowers and grass were painted in with a variety of watercolor paint colors.
4.  Paint the sky area with clear water leaving space around all of the flowers. This keeps the colors from running together.  
5. Use blue paint to fill in the wet sky area

Have fun!  Let me know how it goes <3

This tissue paper craft is more decorative than functional, but it sure is pretty and easy to make.

This birch tree art project for kids uses tape to block off the tree shapes, and watercolor paint and salt to make the textured midnight sky.