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Children's Painting Games

Both younger and older children require constant movement and like to engage their lively imaginations. Games, activities and crafts are a fun, easy way to keep kids and students entertained. Whether you're providing them with painting games online or they are playing in the house, many options are available.

All About Nature Animals to Paint Online
- At All About Nature: Animals to Paint Online, kids have several categories to choose from. If you're looking to entertain a dinosaur enthusiast, for instance, there are several different dinosaurs available. Fun facts worded in a kid-friendly way are presented at the bottom of every page, including diet, identification of anatomical parts and the original period the dinosaur thrived.
  This is a game suitable for very young children also, as achieving the colorful results of a completed picture is as easy as clicking on a particular paint color and then clicking on the part of the dinosaur to be colored.
Puzzle Pixies
- Puzzle Pixies is an online painting game that allows kids to utilize their imaginations and paint on an empty canvas. Kids get to choose from more than 10 different colors and paint animals, cartoon characters, their names, storybook places, a favorite theme park or playground. Other tools include an eraser, a magic wand, lettering, special-shaped and different-length lines, decorative stamps and varying shapes. Instructions are provided for the tools. To make this more challenging, provide kids with a theme, a timer and an allotted time period to complete the picture.
Bull's-eye
- A fun, colorful painting game suitable for younger and older children is "Bull's-eye." For this game, you need paint brushes of different sizes--at least one brush per player--various color paints, an easel and a large pad or sheet of white easel paper. Before game play begins, draw a single circle around the outside perimeter of the page. Line up players in a straight line and have them approach the bull's-eye one at a time with their paint brush and paint a single, full line around the circle inside the previous line. The game gets more challenging as the bull's-eye gets smaller. The goal of this game is to not be the player left unable to paint another circle. To add a twist to the game for older children, once all the initial spaces are filled, instruct players that they can overlap colors on their new turn(s). The only restriction is that when a new color is added, it must result in an easily recognizable primary color.

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