Paint Stick Poppy Painting For Veteran’s Day
Paint Stick Poppy Painting For Veteran’s Day on November 11th. This poppy painting craft is super easy to set up and have kids paint.
The paint sticks are easy to use and make great pictures for kids. You can make this poppy painting with the paint sticks and paper.
Kids will love making their own fields of poppies for Veteran’s day or Memorial Day.
The Paint Stick Poppy Painting is an excellent addition to the Veteran’s Day section on the site.
What is Veteran’s Day?
Veterans Day is a federal holiday in the United States, observed annually on November 11, to honor military veterans of the United States Armed Forces. It was initially called Armistice Day for the anniversary of the end of World War I.
Paint Stick Poppy Painting
Poppies are a big part of Armistice Day for a lot of the world and can be used for Veterans’ Day and Memorial Day.
This simple painting activity for kids can be done with paint sticks and paper. It does not need a lot of supplies to make the painting.
Poppy History and Poppy Book For Kids
A great book to use with this poppy paint stick craft The Poppy Lady: Moina Belle Michael and Her Tribute to Veterans. You can learn all about the meaning behind poppies and Veteran’s Days.
What we used to make the Paint Stick Poppy Painting
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- watercolor paper – use for the texture of the paper with the paints
- paint sticks: red, black and green
How we made the Paint Stick Poppy Painting
You are going to see all the steps we used to make the paint stick poppy painting.
Step 1: Paint the Small Grass
You are going to use the green paint stick to make small lines of grass or green plants at the bottom of the paper. It is about 1 1/2 or 2 inches high on the bottom of the paper.
We used a piece of scrap paper until our painting paper so that the extra paint went on the paper and not of the table.
Step 2: Paint the Stems
Next you are going to paint the stems for the poppy painting. You can see we made somewhat straight lines from the middle of the paper to the green.
You can do a mix of heights for the poppies that you are painting. Let kids decide how many poppies and how might they should be.
Step 3: Paint the Poppies on the Stems
Then we painted the poppies. We made a circles at the top of the green stem. The circles can be a mix of cirlce like shapes for the poppies.
If you press harder the poppies will fill in more. And if your press lighter it will show the texture of the paper. And let kids decide which way they want to paint.
Step 4: Paint the Center of the Poppies Black
The final step that we did was to paint the black center of the poppy. We made circles with the black pain stick in the center or close to the center of the red circles we painted.
You can see how much fun the poppies look on the paper.
Final look at our Paint Stick Poppy Painting
More Poppy Crafts & Printables For Veteran’s Day
Veteran’s Day Weekly Packs has 5 days of printables with four pages for each day. You have six grade levels with prek, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, third grade, and fourth grade. Each of the packs has a mix of language and math for kids.
Watercolor Poppy Painting is a fun watercolor painting that you can make with kids. It is simple and easy painting for kids with a cookie cutter.
Poppy Shape Tracing Printable has 11 shapes for kids to work on tracing and learning with a poppy theme for Veteran’s Day or Memorial Day.
Poppy Fine Motor Mat Printables are great for veterans day for kids to do activities. You have a poppy template, poppy tracing printables, and poppy dot marker printables.
Poppy Number Dot Marker & Counting has dot marker number with counting the dots on the poppy from 0 to 20 numbers with color and black and white options.
Check out all the fun Veteran’s Day Activities & Printables on 3 Dinosaurs.
Cassie – 3Dinosaurs.com