My kids are loving art lately, and I have to say I am totally embracing their creativity and letting them make new things every day. As much as I’d love to tell you I’m always like this, I’m not. I think a big part of enjoying it now is teaching the kids the steps in preparing for a project and cleaning up afterward. This way they can help with the whole process. This super cool tile art for kids is perfect. It’s fun, easy to do and they turn out beautiful.
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Easy Ceramic Tile Art for Kids – That Everyone Will Enjoy
You only need 3 things to create these beautiful art tiles (not counting your imagination)
Color the tiles using a variety of color combinations and designs.
Using a spoon or straw, put little puddles of alcohol all over the colored tile. Do not add to much alcohol at once or the color will all run together and get muddy. Make sure to add just a little bit at a time all over and let the drops/puddles naturally run into each other. (Kids can also use a dropper)
I had the kids use a dropper while I tried out the straw. The dropper is great for working fine motor skills.
The tile will be mostly covered in alcohol at this point.
Look how pretty they are! Don’t you think they turned out lovely?
Let dry for a couple of hours. As tiles are drying, you can add a few drops of alcohol in areas that fade out more than others so they will keep the mosaic look.
These beautiful tiles make great gifts. I know what we will be giving out for Mother’s Day this year 😉 Grandma will love a set of these for her coffee table.
What do you think? Will this Tile Art for Kids go on your to-do list soon? I hope your family or art class gets to enjoy making their own decorative art tiles.
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Ceramic Tile Art
What’s Needed:
- White Ceramic Tiles, 4×4
- Permanent Markers, multi-colors
- Rubbing Alcohol
- Optional Lighter
- Optional Dropper
Directions
- Color the tiles using a variety of color combinations and designs.
- Using a spoon or straw, put Little puddles of alcohol all over the colored tile. Do not add to much alcohol at once or the color will all run together and get muddy. Make sure to add just a little bit at a time all over and let the drops/puddles naturally run into each other.
- The tile will be mostly covered in alcohol at this point.
- Let dry for 1-2 hours. As tiles are drying, you can add a few drops of alcohol in areas that fade out more than others so they will keep the mosaic look.
- *Optional instead of waiting for the alcohol to dry you can use a lighter to burn the alcohol off (adult job – make sure to do this step in a safe place)
- Use for display or great for coasters!! My husband even suggested using them for a backsplash 🙂
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Would they actually seal enough to use them as a backsplash? I LOVE this idea! We are redoing our kitchen and I think this would be amazing to add as some accents that our kids made.
My mom suggested the same thing 🙂 If you do the lighter (burning the alcohol off) at the end I would think it would work great.
We just bought the items for this project today to let my kids create coasters for their grandmothers (and myself) for Mother’s Day. We found hexagon shaped tiles that my older daughter liked better than the square ones. Really excited to do this! Also we got a couple of bigger ones for them to do a trivet too!!
I can’t wait to hear how they come out. 🙂 Have Fun!
Once dry, do you need to Mod Podge or anything over it so the color doesn’t get messy if the tile gets wet? Or does the burning off/drying process seal the color on there?
Thanks!
The burning off does seal it. We left a lot of ours untouched and haven’t had any problems with the color wearing off but they haven’t gotten soaked (just a little condensation)