Looking for Inspiration? Try these Silly Drawing Prompts!

Diana Beltrán Herrera's Paper Birds

Can you believe these are sculptures made out of PAPER?!

Coffee Filter Dancers

Materials Needed:

-Coffee Filters

-Washable Markers

-Pipe Cleaner

-Scissors

-Rubber Band (or tape)

Instructions:

-Lay two coffee filters down flat

-Color the top filter however you want with the markers

-Carefully sprinkle some water around the filters and watch the colors spread

-Let the filters dry

-Take a pipe cleaner and make a loop for the head of your dancerv

-Take a second pipe cleaner and wrap it around the "head" to tie off the first pipe cleaner and to make the arms

-Once you have arms, you can wrap the excess around the body and spread the first pipe cleaner to make the legs

-Take one of your coffee filters and fold it in half

-Then fold it in half again, and again until it's in 1/8ths

-Cut a small hole at the point of the coffee filter so you can put the "arms" through it

-Bunch the filter into the type of dress you desire then either use a rubber band or tape to keep it's shape

-Take another decorated coffee filter and add it below the first to create a fuller dress

Casey Drake's Chalk Drawings

Casey Drake has been making Covid-19 inspired chalk drawings, I think you'll like them:

Paper Snakes

Materials:

-Colorful Paper

-Scissors

-Glue

-Something for the eyes (Googly eyes, eye stickers, or a marker to draw them)

-Marker

Instructions:

-Cut the paper into even strips

-Put the strips into two groups

-Join the strips together with glue for super long strips

-Fold the bottom strip over the top one (Keeping the 90 degrees angle) and crease the fold

-Take the bottom strip and fold it over the top one

-Continue until you run out of strips to fold and add a dash of glue on the last fold

-Cut a snake shaped head and tongue from paper and glue it on the last fold

-Add eyes and nostrils

How to Draw Air Pods

Mother's Day Craft

Looking for a gift for Mom for Mother's Day? Try making her a bouquet of flowers!

Materials Needed:

-Pipe Cleaners

-Pen

-Scissors

-Cupcake Liners

Instructions:

-Decorate the cupcake liners however you want- make designs, pokda dots, color them in, or used colorful liners with designs already on them!

-Poke a small hole in the bottom of the cupcake liners with a pen.

-Put your pipe cleaner through the hole and knot the top (or just scrunch it down)

-Make as many as you want for your bouquet

Rethink Coloring Sheets

You can use coloring pages/sheets in different ways! Maybe you want to color just a portion of the coloring sheet/page. Maybe you want to cut out shapes so you can make a heart garland or use a coloring sheet as the backing for some photographs. How can YOU use a coloring sheet/page in a different way?

Digital Sculpting

If you want to make 3D digital sculptures, here's a fun site: https://stephaneginier.com/sculptgl/

Evgeny Dubovik's Wood Carvings

Look at these beautiful wood carvings by Russian artist Evgeny Dubovik: