Art & Craft Facts for Kids
Colourful facts about art and creativity
Comic strips and graphic novels are a form of art that combines pictures and words to tell stories.
A pattern in art is a repeated design β patterns appear in textiles, architecture, and nature everywhere.
Glass blowing is an art where artists blow air through a tube into molten glass to shape it into beautiful objects.
Ukiyo-e are colourful Japanese woodblock prints that were enormously popular in the 17th-19th centuries.
Trompe-l'oeil means 'trick the eye' in French β it is a painting so realistic it looks three-dimensional.
Art therapy helps people express difficult feelings through drawing and painting, especially children.
When you mix paints, the more colours you add the darker it gets β this is called subtractive colour mixing.
Ancient Greek pottery was decorated with scenes from myths, sports, and daily life β like painted history books.
Texture in art describes how a surface feels or looks β rough, smooth, bumpy, or soft.
Symmetry means both sides of an image are mirror images β it appears in art, architecture, and nature.