Art & Craft Facts for Kids
Colourful facts about art and creativity
Ancient artists made paint from ground minerals, charcoal, and plant juices β earth tones like ochre were common.
You can make art using just your fingerprints β each fingerprint is completely unique.
Zentangle is a style of drawing using repetitive patterns β many people find it calming and meditative.
Architecture is the art of designing buildings β a great building can be as beautiful as any painting.
The Aztec Sun Stone is a massive carved calendar β it weighs nearly 25 tonnes and is about 4 metres across.
A silhouette is an image that shows only the outline of a person or object, filled with a dark colour.
Aboriginal Australian art often uses dots and symbols to represent landscapes and Dreamtime stories.
A fresco is a painting done on wet plaster β as the plaster dries, it locks the colour permanently.
Optical illusions are pictures that trick your brain into seeing things that are not really there.
Artists create enormous, detailed sculptures out of millions of LEGO bricks β it is a recognised art form.