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Unicorn Crafts for Kids

December 7, 2020 By Crafty Team Leave a Comment

Does your child love unicorns? If so, they are going to LOVE this fun Unicorn Crafts for Kids! Whether you are looking for homeschool crafts, a unicorn-themed birthday party for preschoolers, or a classroom craft full of color, this fun, creative, and clever unicorn craft activity will be a HUGE hit!

This unicorn craft is perfect for all ages, including young ones. With just a few staple supplies and steps, you’ll have a beautiful display of a Rainbow Unicorn for a keepsake or gift.

Unicorn Craft Materials

  • Black Glue
  • Black Cardstock
  • Clear Elmer’s Glue
  • Paint Brush
  • Multi-colored Chalk Pastels

Rainbow Unicorn Craft Instructions

  1. Using cardstock, use black glue to design mane as show in video.

2. Next, after black glue dries, draw clear glue in between black glue stripes.

3. Using a paint brush, gently blend clear glue in between left side design to prepare for pastel coloring.

4. After clear glue dries, use white pastel and color left side mane design.

5. Now, it’s time for the rainbow colors. Starting with red, begin the rainbow design as shown below and in video provided.

6. Once complete, use finger to blend all pastel colors gently across the page. Be careful not to blend colors together, finger should be wiped cleaned before proceeding.

7. Your Rainbow Unicorn Craft for Kids is now complete. Hang it on the fridge to display or give as a gift to loved ones.

Filed Under: Art Projects for Kids, Glue Art Projects Tagged With: chalk pastel art projects

Jellyfish Art Project for Kids

Create this Simple Watercolor & Glue Jellyfish with your art students today! With our free step-by-step art tutorial, this stunning jellyfish can be created by students and adults of all ages and abilities. You’ll be amazed at how simple and easy this jellyfish watercolor art project is, and at how beautiful it looks hanging in your classroom! Imagine a full art wall of these gorgeous jellies!

Simple Watercolor Jellyfish

Jellyfish might seem like they are difficult to create, but because of their fluid shape, they are actually quite simple…..and fun! Best of all we’ve added in an amazingly, simple watercolor and glue technique that will bring textures and quality to your project!

Watercolor & Clear Glue Art Project

It’s hard to photograph the actual texture of this projects, so here is a closer look at the canvas. Prior to paining, a layer of clear glue is used to create a 3-D underlay, so that when paint is applied it creates a stunning and unique result every single time! In the photo above you can see these layers or dried glue as the raised elements on the canvas.

Jellyfish Craft for Kids

Glue is also used on the tentacles of the jellyfish to add some variety of textures and colors. You can see in the above photo that the watercolor absorbs differently into the glue and you can see almost transparent-like strings coming down. This is a wonderful technique for making jellies!

Watercolor Jellyfish

Jellyfish Template & Materials

  • Jellyfish Template (Optional)
  • Watercolor Pens or Cakes
  • Watercolor Paper
  • Clear Glue

If you’d like to provide your students with a template, you can use our free printable stencil for the main shape of the jellyfish’s body. It’s probably great for reference too if student’s want to look at it while drawing their own.

Either way, make sure to trace or draw the jellyfish body near the top of the page. That way there is lots of remaining room on you paper for all the colorful tentacles. However, before we get started painting, we need to lay down that texture layer of glue.

It turns out getting a picture of clear glue on white paper is really difficult, so I darkened this image a bit so you can see where I laid out the glue. Basically, you’ll want to go around the edges and then do some dots of glue in some of the corners. You can see on the edges I don’t have a perfect line, and sometimes it’s blotchy, or with gaps….this is ideal for a unique texture. You want areas of white in between the glue that will soak up the color different and help the whole thing POP!

Here is another close up of the tentacles. Basically you are doing lots of squiggly figure 8’s and randomness all the way down the tentacle. Before making each one, look at your page and decide which way they will go, and sort of where they will end up. Make them in varying sizes and shapes, but really fill up your page. The glue will take a while to dry, so set it aside for a few hours to harden.

Ocean Watercolor Art for Kids

After your glue has dried, you are ready to PAINT your watercolor jellyfish. So, you can use watercolor brush pens, or watercolor cakes to complete your project. I prefer the pens because they are less messy, and I find it easy to add lots of bold bright color without getting too much water on the paper. I tend to over-water my plants too, it’s a whole thing, but moving on….

Step 1:

The first step is to lay down some color in the body of your jellyfish. I like to use light blues and you can see in the photo where I’m adding them.

Step 2:

Next, add some yellow to the jellyfish body. Ad water as needed to blend the colors together. With watercolor pens, you’ll find dipping them directly in water helps sometimes as well.

Step 3:

Choose a few darker blues and purbles to go around the edges and add random bits of color through the project. Generally you want the darker colors near the edges and the lighter colors hear the middle. You’ll start to notice some of the glue soaking up color differently than the exposed paper. I noticed that sometimes the glue areas resisted the color and sometimes they turned darker.

Here is a look at the project so far. It’s looking good, and the glue is creating textures, so it’s time to work on those colorful tentacles!

Step 4:

Choose a nice bright WARM color for the tentacles. We used a lot of cool colors on the jelly body (blues, greens, purples) so we want to contrast that by using warm colors for the tentacles. Using the brushpen, or a very thin watercolor brush, make a bunch of figure 8 squiggles following the dried glue outline of the first tentacle. To get randomness, you might draw with the tip, then quickly press more of the brush down on the paper, then back up to the tip as you go….etc… You’ll want lots of loops!

Step 5:

Add a second color to the same tentacle, filling in some of the gaps and making the colors blend and overlaps in some areas. I choose a yellow color. Use the water brush, to make circles and blend some of the color together. You want a lot of the hard, fine lines to show through, so keep that in mind as you are blending.

Step 6:

Repeat these steps for your next set of tentacles. This time I used an orange and a darker red. You can see that the pen shape is moving in circles and random all the way down. Soemtimes it gets thicker or thinner in areas too, that is PERFECT! You don’t want it the same thickness, as jellyfish tentacles are not uniform in appearance.

Step 7:

Again, take the water brush and blend the colors. The water will pull the color out a bit, thickening up your tentacle and creating the effect of transparency. The strings of glue will start to show through, which looks amazing!!

Don’t worry if you feel like you made a mistake. Jellyfish are so unique that any special qualities your picture has will only enhance your work. You can use a paper towel to pick up any extra water along the way. Did I mention I always lay down too much water?

Step 8

When you come to the other side of the jellyfish, you can even him out by adding some smaller tentacles, or tentacles the appear to drift of in another direction. I decided to add another color pop of yellow to tie the whole thing together. Next, go back through your tentacles and make thsure theya re all fat and fluffy (use the water brush).

Once you get everything painted, take a step back and look for areas of improvement. I decided to add more color using a dark purple watercolor brush pen. First, I put more color to the edges of the jelly body, near the dots, and to add some shadow to the tentacles. Look at the center orange tentacle for example, you’ll see the darker areas on the edges.

Ready for some more Ocean art projects for kids? Try this stunning Seahorse Craft Today! Students will work with bleeding tissue paper and paper cutting techniques to create these luminous creatures!

Ocean Crafts for Kids

These ocean craft and art projects for kids are fantastic when paired alongside some hands-on learning. Children love to see all the amazing creatures that God has placed in the sea.  Be sure to enhance your Ocean unit studies with a fun trip to a local aquarium, or natural tide pool.

Our Ocean Crafts for kids are developed for students of all ages!. With our beach craft tutorials, children will work with a variety of mediums including oil pastels, chalk pastels, watercolor, bleeding tissue paper and more. We provide introduction to different art techniques as well. Children will learn blending, hues, warm and cool colors paper piecing, glue-resist, etching, printing, textures with mixed media and so much more! Come create a spiky sea urchin, a sandpaper starfish, a sea creature fan book and a sparkly sea anemone!

Seahorse Art Project for Kids

Try this stunning Seahorse Craft Today! Students will work with bleeding tissue paper and paper cutting techniques to create these luminous creatures! You’ll be surprise how simple and fun these seahorse art projects are for students of all ages. Even young students will create aquatic masterpieces with this simple tutorial.

Whale Tail Art Project for Kids

This aquatic ocean art project for children is sure to be a huge hit in your classroom! Pair this fantastic beach side theme with your ocean animals unit study. Best of all this project is simple, and great for students of all ages. Students will build a variety of art skills as they work with mixed media (chalk pastels and glue), and learn to use blending and color hues to create visual interest.

Jellyfish Art Project for Kids

Create this Simple Watercolor & Glue Jellyfish with your art students today! With our free step-by-step art tutorial, this stunning jellyfish can be created by students and adults of all ages and abilities. You’ll be amazed at how simple and easy this jellyfish watercolor art project is, and at how beautiful it looks hanging in your classroom! Imagine a full art wall of these gorgeous jellies!

Spiky Sea Urchin Craft

Careful, these little fella's are very spiky! These make your Ocean diorama's really pop!

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Ocean Waves Oil Pastel

This beautiful oil pastel introduces children to warm and cool color combinations, line, overlaping, depth, highlighting, shadows and more. With a few easy tips and tricks children can make stunning beach art during your Ocean unit study.

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Sandpaper Starfish Art Project

This is a great way for chidlren to learn about starfish, while adding a bit of texture to their creations. Children draw directly on sandpaper with crayons or oil pastels for a vivid and tactile experience.

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Sea Creature Art Prints

Using this simple printing method you can make an array of amazing sea creature art prints. This project is not only fun to learn but children are left with lasting impressions of their Ocean Animal Unit Study. Not to mention that these prints can be gifted to friends and family members for gifts.

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Seashell Identification Cards

Children can identify and sort through their seashells with these full color photo cards. We purchased a bag of shells and used these as sorting mats to keep the little hands busy during lessons.

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Sea Creature Fan Book

Children can make this interactive sea creature fan book to remember all of their favorite ocean animals!

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Aquarium Notebooking Pages

Free 75 page aquarium notebook for The Crafty Classroom Subscribers. These notebooking pages include a full color photo and basic fact file for different aquatic creatures children can visit at the aquarium.

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Coral Reef Collage

These vibrant coral reef collages are wonderful to make after learning about the different creatures that live there! Use Oil Pastels and a reference photo and encourage children to work slowly blending colors, highlighting with white as they go.

Coral Craft for Kids

This craft teaches children to make some sparkly sea creatures to add to their ocean dioramas! Use a piece of Styrofoam (we cut a Styrofoam ball in half) and some glitter pipe cleaners. Wrap the pipe cleaners around a pencil then remove them for a perfect spiral spring shape. Poke them into the Styrofoam to make your creature.

Ocean Animal ABC Photos

Children can work their way through the alphabet with these aquatic creatures. For each letter there is a corresponding animal. Older children can cut apart the photo from the name and use these cards as a matching game.

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Ocean Animal Coloring Pages

A set of 26 different ocean animal coloring pages, one for each letter of the alphabet. Children can color and cut out their pictures to form a wall sized quilt.

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Sea Shell Coloring & Clipart

We have some free seashell coloring pages and clipart you can use to make your own homeschool resources. Even if you live miles from the ocean you can provide children the opportunity to find a collect shells using a small sandbox and purchased shells. Children can then color the shells with the markings and patterns of the ones they found.

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OceanEncy

Children’s Encyclopedia of Ocean Life

This series of encyclopedias for children are amazing!  With over 200 pages, this book is filled with full color photos and vivid illustrations of aquatic creatures from the world’s oceans.  This is book you can keep on your shelves for years to come, we personally own quite a few of these thematic encyclopedias.  I would say they are best used with children 3rd grade and below.

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