Football Cookie Cutter Watercolor Painting

Cookie cutter painting is a great craft that kids of all ages can do. This football painting is great for any football theme or idea you are doing.

You can use watercolor paints and paint inside the cookie cutters to come up with a fun collage of football themes.

You can use this with preschool age on up.

Football Cookie Cutter Watercolor Painting - a fun painting that kids can do with a football theme. A great way to do a fun watercolor painting is by different football team colors. - 3Dinosaurs.com

The Football Watercolor Painting is a great addition to the football activities and the cookie cutter crafts on the site.

What is Cookie Cutter Painting?

Painting with a cookie cutter is an easy craft for kids to do. This gives a template, and the results are loads of fun.

What is Football?

Football in American is a sport that is played with two teams of 11 players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.

You have lots of football words like helmet, football, and jersey. And these are used for the painting

Football Watercolor Painting with Cookie Cutters

Football watercolor painting is painting inside football cookie cutters with watercolor paints. A fun painting and fine motor activity for kids.

We have helmet, football, and jersey cookie cutters.

Football Books to Read With this Football Watercolor Painting

My Football Book by Gail Gibbons is a great start to learn all about the terms used for football.

My First Book of Football: A Rookie Book is a book about a football game and learning all about what happens from the coin toss to the end.

What we used to make the Football Watercolor Painting

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watercolors
watercolor paper – this is great for painting projects
football cookie cutters or these football cookie cutters
large paint brush

How we made the Football Watercolor Painting

You can see the steps below that we used to make the football watercolor painting.

Place the Football Cookie Cutter on the Watercolor Paper

We placed the cookie cutter on the watercolor paper. You can see the helmet cookie cutter below.

You can place it anywhere you want. There is no right or wrong way to place it.

Hold the Football Cookie Cutter and Paint Inside

You want to hold onto the cookie cutter. You can do this by holding the side of the cookie cutter or the top of the cookie cutter.

You can do which works best for who is doing the painting.

You then use a paint brush with watercolors to paint inside the cookie cutter. As you paint you want to make sure to get all the corners and center. But if you don’t get them all it is okay!

Look the the Football Helmet on the Paper

You can see the helmet on the paper and it has the shape of the cookie cutters we painted.

If you are doing this with older kids you can have then touch up the painting if they want.

Keep Painting Helmets, Footballs and Jerseys

Then keep painting more of the cookie cutter shapes.

There is no wrong or write way to paint with these cookie cutters.

You can use the colors of your favorite theme, or those in a playoff. It is fun to mix and match the different colors.

You can also overlap the cookie cutters as you paint. This is great way to kids to make the painting their own football painting.

After you finish painting and the watercolors are dry you could write numbers on the shirts or decorate them as well.

You could also do a version of this painting with the colors of two teams that are facing each other.

Final look at our Football Watercolor Painting

More Football Activities for Kids

Football Fine Motor Mats has a football template, football dot marker printable, tracing football for kids to do little fine motor work with a football theme.

Football Gross Motor Dice is a great gross motor and brain break movements for kids to do.

Football Placemats has 3 placemats for kids to use with writing, coloring and drawing.

No-Prep Football Weekly Packs – You have 5 days of printables with 4 pages for each day. You have a mix of math and language for kids to use. You have prek, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, third grade, and fourth grade.

Football Pack Extra has a bingo game, keep track of the score, writing, letter find and more! These are great to use during football games.

Football Number Dot Marker & Counting is a fun way to work on numbers 0 to 20. You dot marker the number and then count the dots on the football.

Check out all the fun Football Printables & Activities on 3 Dinosaurs.