Below you’ll find an easy step-by-step tutorial for how to draw Flying Heart Balloons. Students can experiment with wet-on-wet watercolor painting.
Flying Heart Balloons Painting
If you need an easy painting project that works for a wide range of elementary students, try this Flying Heart Balloons lesson.
Younger kids can focus on the basics—choosing colors and keeping the paint where they want it to go. Older students can take it further by adding highlights and shadows to give their balloons more dimension. For an especially soft, pretty effect, have them add the shadows while the paint is still wet so the colors gently blend together.
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Materials to paint Flying Heart Balloons
Crayola Watercolor Pan Set
Crayola Watercolor Paint Set (16 Count), Washable Paint for Kids, 1 Paint Brush, Arts & Crafts Supplies, Assorted Colors Real watercolor paper always makes the watercolor paintings much more vibrant *affiliate link
Watercolor Paper
Real watercolor paper always makes the watercolor paintings much more vibrant *affiliate link
Non-Spill Paint Cups
Train your students to return brushes to the cup they came from and you have an easy system with very little cleanup *affiliate link
Paint Brush
A good paint brush can make a big difference and this style with a sturdy rounded tip is my favorite. *affiliate link
Sharpie Marker
Sharpie Permanent Markers, Fine Point, Black
Pencils
Ticonderoga Wood-Cased Pencils, Unsharpened, #2 HB Soft
Step by Step Directions to draw Heart Balloons
Time needed: 1 hour
How to Paint Heart Balloons
- Draw or trace a page full of hearts.
- Add small triangles to the bottoms.
- Add strings.
- Draw highlights in same side of each heart.
- Trace with a crayon.
- Paint with one color, add a stripe of another along one side.
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