Watercolor Poppy Painting For Veteran’s Day

A fun Watercolor Poppy Painting with cookie cutters for Veteran’s Day and Memorial Day. A simple and easy watercolor painting that different age groups could make together.

Veteran’s Day happens on November 11th. This day is also celebrated around the world as the marking of the end of WWI.

Poppies are a theme for remembering the end of WWI, Veterans’s day, and Memorial Day. Poppies are used in the US for Memorial Day.

Watercolor Poppy Painting For Veteran's Day - a fun watercolor painting using cookie cutters for the circle flowers and q-tip painting for the center. Simple and easy to do with kids. - 3Dinosaurs.com

The Watercolor Poppy Painting is a great addition to the Veteran’s Day activities and the cookie cutter crafts on the site.

What is Cookie Cutter Painting?

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

Watercolor Poppy Painting

Poppy Watercolor painting is painting inside circle cookie cutters with watercolor paints. A fun painting and fine motor activity for kids. And makes a great poppy painting for kids.

Poppy History and Poppy Book For Kids

A great book to use with this poppy watercolor painting 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 Poppy Watercolor Painting

We have included links to some of the products and resources we have used with this activity. If you purchase via the links we may earn a small commission.

watercolors
watercolor paper – this is great for painting projects
circle cookie cutter
large paint brush
paint tray
black washable paints
q-tip

How we made the Poppy Watercolor Painting

You can see the steps below that we used to make the Poppy Watercolor painting.

Step 1: Paint Green Stems & Green Grass on the Watercolor Paper

You are going to start with painting the green grass and stems. We did the all the green painting at one time.

We started with some stems and then worked on the grass below. Let kids decide if they do smaller green of just green for the flowers. Either is okay. We did a lot of painting for the green color but you don’t have to do that.

Step 2: Place the Circle Watercolor Cookie Cutter on the Watercolor Paper

You are going to place the cookie cutter at the top of the green stems. You can over lap the green that is okay. We use a circle cookie cutter that had bumps to make the flower have a little shape that is not just circle.

Step 3: Hold the Circle Watercolor Cookie Cutter and Paint Inside

You are going to hold onto the cookie cutter. You can hold on the outside or on the top. Do what is best for the kids doing the painting.

Then you are going to paint the whole inside of the circle.

Step 4: Look the the Circle Watercolor on the Paper

You are going to life off the cookie cutter and see the circle shape for the poppy on the top of the stem.

It is okay if the circle is not complete painted. That will happen and it is okay to leave it. But only kids can paint it in if they want. You can be the judge if your

Step 5: Keep Painting Red Circles Watercolor

You are going to keep painting circles with the red cookie cutter. You are going to do as many circles as you have stems.

You can overlap circles when you are painting. It is a fun way to show the flowers in a field.

Step 6: Paint Black Inside the Red Circle

We used a q-tip and black paint to paint the inside of the poppies. This is simple to do and can be done on a wet watercolor painting.

You are going to want to dot a few times in the center of each of the red circles. And not all the centers will look the same and that is okay.

Final look at our Poppy Watercolor Painting

More Poppy & Veteran’s Days Activities for Kids

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.

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.

Poppy Flower Wreath Craft is a great wreath for Veterans Day. It is a great way to talk about poppies and their meaning for Veterans Day

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.

Check out all the fun Veteran’s Day Activities & Printables on 3 Dinosaurs.