Easy Watercolor Heart Painting For Preschoolers

Kids will absolutely love this easy heart art watercolor art project!!!!! You can create a heart or any design of your choice with painter’s tape.

This project would be a great and easy watercolor project to complete for Valentine’s Day because it is suitable for kids of all ages. However, it doesn’t just have to be Heart Art. Anyone could make this easy watercolor art project that kids will love for any occasion.

What age is this easy watercolor idea for?

Any aged child would love to complete this project. Some adult assistance may be needed when taping the designs.

For instance, my 2-year-old daughter and 3-year-old son created the beautiful heart art examples in this post. We plan on giving these to our Grammy on her birthday. I just had to help tape and cut the heart on their papers.

After we were done, my son said, “This was awesome!”

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Tips For Using Watercolor Paint With Preschoolers

Use Washable Watercolor Paint

For watercolor paints, my toddlers and I used the washable paint that I have linked above. However, for older kids, I love using this Prang Watercolor set. This set is a little more pricey, but I have seen 500 kids use them all year, and still works well.

Try Diluted Liquid Watercolor

If you really want some different and vibrant colors in your projects, you should check out ordering a set of liquid watercolor paints like these from Sax. You can dilute and mix these to achieve a variety of colors. This set of 8 is also great because it will last a very long time for all your projects.

How To Create An Easy Painting

Step 1: Decide On Image

For instance, I am going to show you how you can create beautiful heart artwork pretty easily using painter’s tape.

In addition, the taping and cutting should be done by an adult or an older child. Obviously, I did not have my young children using an Exacto knife. More power to you if let them! However, any aged kid can cut things out of the painter’s tape and create their own images.

Step 2: Tape Out Larger Shape

On thicker paper or watercolor paper tape a larger area than you will need. For a heart artwork, I taped a large upside-down triangle first.

Step 3: Sketch Out Heart (or other shape)

Draw an image you will want to cut out on painter’s tape and cut out using an Exacto knife. Be careful not to press too hard.

Step 4: Get Ready To Paint

Now we are ready to start painting our heart art! My young children could not wait to start using watercolor paint.

Step 5: Add Plain Water First

Before the kids start using colors, have them paint some water on the paper. This will easily help the colors blend when they start making their watercolor art project.

Step 6: Start Painting

I had to encourage my daughter to paint in the white space around the heart and not on the heart! She still painted on the heart anyway!

Step 7: Continue Painting

Keep working to cover the white space around the tape area. It does look cool if they leave some space white, but make sure near the tape is painted.

Step 9: Let Paintings Dry

You must be patient. Luckily my kids went to the library while their paintings were drying.

Step 10: Carefully Pull Off Tape

Carefully remove the tape from your project and see the beautiful watercolor artwork that was created by these little hands.

I love this project so much that I have even framed one of these heart arts that my three-year-old did as his first painting when he was around 1! It is currently in our “art gallery” at home and it fits right in with the rest of the artworks from artists of all ages.

I hope you enjoyed seeing how kids of all ages can feel successful and create their own beautiful watercolor paintings and heart art projects. Not only will you create wonderful & easy watercolor paintings, but you will be creating memories that last forever!