Art & Craft Facts for Kids
Colourful facts about art and creativity
The horizon line in a drawing or painting is where the sky appears to meet the ground.
Warm colours like red, orange, and yellow feel energetic, while cool colours like blue and green feel calm.
Kente cloth from Ghana is a brightly coloured woven fabric with symbols that tell stories and show status.
The Renaissance was a period in Italy when artists like Leonardo da Vinci made art more realistic and beautiful.
Charcoal is one of the oldest drawing materials β cave painters used burnt sticks of wood to make their pictures.
After the printing press was invented, artists could make many copies of the same image β called prints.
A stencil is a cut-out shape you trace or spray paint through to make identical repeated images.
Art is everywhere β the design of your chair, mug, and book cover all required an artist's eye.
Henna is a paste used to create temporary decorative patterns on skin, traditionally in South Asian and Middle Eastern cultures.
'Girl with a Pearl Earring' by Vermeer is sometimes called the 'Mona Lisa of the North' β nobody knows who she was.