If you’re looking for some fun and easy craft ideas for kids that require no preparations, you’re in the right place!
We’re a busy family so I’m always looking for easy craft ideas to do with the kids. What you need for this activity is some balloons and some pens (who doesn’t have that in the house?). You must have guessed it by now, I’m talking about drawing on balloons! You probably picture in your head a balloon with a face drawn on it. But why limit yourself, or your kids, to that? Read on to see what we did.
Some days ago we had to keep Victoria and Lukas quiet for a while we were feeding baby Elena and making food for the rest of us. In other words were in need of some easy craft ideas for kids. We gave them a set of balloons and some pens and asked them if they wanted to draw on the balloon. And you can imagine what the answer was 🙂
We got some face-balloons back, but Victoria really liked it so she continued drawing houses, a sun, people, … we soon had whole cities coming to life on our balloons!
You can try this at home, on a trip, virtually anywhere
So if you look for some easy craft ideas for kids, draw something on balloons. Here are our tips for this easy craft for kids:
- Use normal ball pens with a not to sharp point (ballpoint): We’ve tried many other writing tools in the past. With most of the felt pens (even permanent ones) we found that you get too much undesired mess on the hands, clothes, as the ink gets off. Pens are just right; the only risk is that the balloon might pop if the kids draw with too much passion 🙂
- Don’t stick to the stereotype face-balloon. Encourage your child to be creative and make up his or her own artistic scenes. Challenge them to draw something else than they would normally do
- It’s handy to draw on balloons when traveling with kids as it’s easier for them to hold a balloon on their lap than a coloring book or a piece of paper. On top a pack of balloons is small and easy to take and the crafty balloons can afterwards serve for some fun play!
If you’re looking for more, you might also like these easy craft ideas for kids. I wish you lots of fun with these simple craft ideas for kids.
about the pens, maybe those pens made for writing on CD / DVD should be ok on the plastic of the balloons? (I did not try it though 🙂 )
We tried that already and did not work any better than the permanent markers. The issue is that they don’t dry out fast enough, so they leave marks. So far ballpoint pens worked best for us- so we’ll stick to that for now. But keep us posted with what you discover/experiment 🙂 suggestions are always welcomed- so thank you for this one.