Painting & Drawing Games for Girls

Color Blocks

• A color block game is like a mystery decoder activity and art project in one. Draw a picture on a piece of paper or tear out a sheet from a coloring book. Inside each image that needs to be colored in, write a number. At the bottom of the page make a key, telling the girls what color gos with each number. You can even customize the game so it uses your daughter's favorite colors, like pink or purple.

Crayon Scratch

• Girls can start the crayon scratch game by drawing blocks of pastel colors side by side on a piece of paper. Then, the girls color over all the pastel color with a black crayon. Using a safety pin or quarter, the girls can scratch over the black making hearts or stars, revealing the feminine colors under the black.

Online Painting

• If your little girl enjoy playing games online, there are a number of ways she can play a painting game on the computer for free. Sites like GirlsGoGames and Gametion (see Resources) offer online paint games where girls can create masterpieces with the click of a mouse. If you have a printer handy, you can print out your daughter's creations and hang them on the wall or the refrigerator.

Figment

• A figment drawing calls on your little girl's imagination to complete a picture. Start by make a random squiggle or line on a sheet of paper and give the paper to your daughter. Let her use her imagination to continue the squiggle, turning it into a complete picture. That picture is a figment of her imagination, and she can get as creative as she likes.