Smush Paint Earth Craft
If you’re looking for a super fun painting craft, that’s also a great way to celebrate our Earth for Earth Day, then get ready for our Smush Paint Earth Craft! It’s a relatively low mess painting craft that’s great for all ages with an absolutely stunning end result.
Be sure to grab our Free Printable Circle Template. That is after you’ve had the fun of smushing blue and green paint. What I really love about this craft, well one of many things I love about this craft, is all the texture that’s made with the paint smushing, too. It’s just a fun painting craft!
Smush Painting Earth Day Craft
To make our smush painted Earth craft you will first need our circle template. This will just make it easier to get the right size.
Then, the rest of the supplies are acrylic paints in blues and greens, white cardstock, and scissors.
Paint Smush Earth Craft Supplies Needed
- Circle Template
- Acrylic paint – blues, greens, purple
- White cardstock
- Scissors
Smush Painting Earth Craft Step by Step Directions
Begin by protecting the surface you’ll be smushing paint on. If you apply more paint than needed it will seep out the edges.
Now, on one sheet of white cardstock, squeeze drops of blue, green, and even a few drops of purple paint.
Next, place the other sheet of white cardstock directly on the paint.
At this point, we used our hands to smush the paint in every direction between the two sheets. This entails literally just smushing the paint. You could use a piece of cardboard for this step instead of your hands, however, or any sturdy, flat material. It may get a bit messy at the edges.
Keep smushing until you feel the paint is fully dispersed to all edges of the sheets of cardstock Then, remove the top sheet of cardstock.
Lay the sheets of cardstock flat and let dry completely.
When the paint is dry, print the circle and cut out. Trace the circle on the smush painting.
Finally, cut out the circle from the smush painted cardstock to make your Earth. I find fascinating all the waves and ripples the smush painting creates.
This Earth craft is such a great Earth Day decoration, hanging in a room. Or just a fun art project.
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More Earth Day Crafts for Kids
Looking for more fun Earth Day crafts? Check out our Galaxy Handprint Earth Craft, Earth Suncatcher Craft, Paper Plate Crayon Resist Earth Craft, Crumpled Newspaper Painted Earth Craft, and our Earth Day Handprint Craft to name just a few of our fun Earth Day crafts at Our Kid Things!
Smush Paint Earth Craft
A fun art project Earth Day craft made by smushing paint between two pieces of cardstock
Materials
- Circle Template
- Acrylic paint - blues, greens, purple
- White cardstock
- Scissors
Instructions
- Begin by protecting the surface you’ll be smushing paint on. If you apply more paint than needed it will seep out the edges.
- Now, on one sheet of white cardstock, squeeze drops of blue, green, and even a few drops of purple paint.
- Next, place the other sheet of white cardstock directly on the paint.
- At this point, we used our hands to smush the paint in every direction between the two sheets. This entails literally just smushing the paint.
- Keep smushing until you feel the paint is fully dispersed to all edges of the sheets of cardstock
- Then, remove the top sheet of cardstock.
- Lay the sheets of cardstock flat and let dry completely.
- When the paint is dry, print the circle and cut out.
- Trace the circle on the smush painting.
- Finally, cut out the circle from the smush painted cardstock to make your Earth.
Notes
You could use a piece of cardboard instead of your hands to smush the paint, or any sturdy, flat material. It may get a bit messy at the edges.