Mixed Medium: Yarn & Oil Pastels Art Activity

During summer camp this year, our students learned how to use oil pastels by coloring and blending with a blending tool. We offered card stock and encouraged our students to get creative with their designs.

Afterward, in small groups, I poured tacky glue on each child's art work and gave them a paint brush to spread out the glue. Tacky glue has this way of brightening up colors, creating a glossy surface once it dries. I offered colorful yarn cut at 3 inches or so for my students to add to the abstract art by creating curvy and straight lines on top of their colorings.

After the artwork dried, we presented the artwork on a larger piece of card stock to offer a frame to the artwork and voila!

This activity worked out very nicely in small groups with kids ages three through five years old. They had a lot of fun with the process and they were very proud with the finished product.

Thanks for stopping in and I hope you got some ideas for your own projects!


Angelique Bowman