I am so excited that G is at the age where she gets really excited about interactive activities especially arts and crafts. She and I went to Michael’s the other day and loaded up on supplies we needed for a couple of Easter crafts. The weather has been a total mess outside so I was looking for indoor activities to help our days move along and be fun.
Walking through Michael’s hand in hand with G is literally walking with a kid in a candy store. She was picking up everything and asking me to buy it. Okay, so I did buy a couple of things she grabbed like a plastic necklace, a princess headband, and a bunny ears headband. Those bins they have lining the front of the store are perfect for little hands to reach.
I’ve seen similar painting crafts around Pinterest and even a fellow blogger friend Melissa did a painted canvas with her son.
Materials:
- watercolors {I chose watercolor because I knew it would give the canvas the pastel colors I was looking for.}
- paintbrushes of assorted sizes
- {2} 12″x12″ canvas
- {1} package of vinyl letters 3″ in size {look in the sign section of your craft store}
Directions:
- Plan out your canvas and stick down your letters. For this project I spelled out “Happy” on one canvas and “Easter” on the other.
- I set G up at the kitchen table with all the materials including a ton of newspaper to cover the tabletop.
- Let her go to town! At first she needed a little bit of instruction on how to get the watercolor on the canvas, but once she figured it out she was pretty much all set.
- Be watchful of how much water is being put onto the canvas as the letters may move a bit if they get too saturated.
- Once she was finished painting I tipped the canvas in different directions to let the excess water run off which gave it a really cool look.
- Once the canvas is completely dry you can carefully peel off the letters.

That is so adorable, I must pin this! Thanks
Such a super cute idea! Now I want to try a paint canvas!
I just had to pin this! It looks so great, and fun for the kids. I can’t believe it turned out so pretty!
This is so cute and seems like minimal mess, I love it!
What a cute activity. I let them color on paper but never thought of picking up a canvas for them to paint on.
How easy and fun is that? I bet my daughter would enjoy doing something like this too.
Now this is an awesome and colorful activity! I think my boys would love this!! Maybe I might love it more! I love the colors you chose. They’re so Easter and Springy!
My little G is 6 and I think she would also enjoy this. Thanks for sharing!
I love this idea! I am going to try it with my boy even though he doesn’t like to get dirty with paint. I think he will especially love the letters.