DIY Nature Paint Brushes for Kids

Making your own nature paint brushes is easy, fun and free! It will get you and your kids out in the nature and kids will have a blast collecting natural materials – And pine needles make fantastic brushes! 

Diy Nature Paint Brushes For kids

Paintbrushes can be made from a wide variety of different materials, many of which you probably already have in your yard. We used materials from evergreen trees for bristles. Have you ever made a paint brush out of cypress tree leaves? Or spruce needles? Time to make one.

YOU’LL NEED:

• several twigs
• string, twine or a piece of raffia
• materials for bristles (pine needles, spruce needles, cypress foliage, even tree buds, etc)
• optional: a rubber band

HOW-TO make your own nature paint brushes 

First, for those of you who prefer video how-tos, here’s a short video slide-show for you:

Small children will need assistance with this acitvity. To make it easier, you can use a rubber band to hold the bristle material together while the child wraps raffia around. {For a heavy-duty use, the rubber band alone will not be enough.} Very suitable for times when kids make paint brushes themselves without your help.

3) Wrap raffia (or twine) several times around the handle and the bristle material, then tie it firmly and cut off any excessive string.

4) You’ve just made your very own brush! Your kids will love the process and you might end up making tons of them!

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