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Cherry Blossom Painting with Cotton Balls

By ProjectswithKids

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Nothing says spring like seeing blooming cherry blossom trees in gorgeous shades of pink! This cherry blossom painting is a wonderful spring art project for kids. Using cotton balls to paint with is so fun for kids of all ages.

Both my 4-year-old and 7-year-old loved using cotton balls to paint, and so did I! The cotton balls give the painting a fluffy texture, perfect for the cotton candy texture of cherry blossom trees.

If you are looking for more spring projects, take a look at this colorful collection of spring art for kids!

Cherry blossom painting with cotton balls is the perfect spring art project for kids. Kids will love exploring and painting the gorgeous cherry blossom colors with cotton balls in this process art activity. A fun painting project for kids of all ages!

We also made a gorgeous blossom spring tree craft that uses easy paper quilling techniques that you can take a look at. 

For this project, I created a free printable template to make this art project even easier for you. This template is available to my email subscribers. Fill out the form below to get the free template.

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Create your own Cherry Blossom Painting

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Cherry blossom painting with cotton balls is the perfect spring art project for kids. Kids will love exploring and painting the gorgeous cherry blossom colors with cotton balls in this process art activity. A fun painting project for kids of all ages!

Supplies

  • Canvas paper pad
  • Acrylic paint
  • Paintbrushes
  • Paint palette and water container, recycled containers work great for this
  • Cotton balls
  • Clothespins

Instructions to make your cherry blossom art

We used canvas paper for this project. It was something I saw in our local art store and thought I would give it a try. It’s basically canvas that would normally be stretched onto a wooden frame but it comes in a pad with 10 sheets. I loved it!

It held the paint really well and I think gives the painting a nice texture. My kids really liked using it as well, it’s always fun to find different surfaces to create on.

Cherry blossom painting with cotton balls is the perfect spring art project for kids. Kids will love exploring and painting the gorgeous cherry blossom colors with cotton balls in this process art activity. A fun painting project for kids of all ages!

1. Because this cherry blossom painting is more of a branch than a whole tree, you want to cut your paper in half for a horizontal painting, which I think looks pretty cool!

2. Mix up your paints. If you have a nice sky blue and two shades of pink already, great! If not, you will need to mix your colors. I ended up mixing our blue with some white and the pink with white to make another lighter shade of pink.

Using two shades of pink helps to give the painting depth and interest. And gives the kids more colors to paint with their cotton balls! We used black for the tree branch.

Related: Orange Tree Cotton Ball Painting

This cherry blossom art is the perfect spring art project for kids.

3. Paint the entire canvas with blue for the sky. Our paint was mixed with white so you can see some white streaks here and there in the sky which I think looks nice. Using a larger flat brush for the sky works well.

Let the sky dry completely, or if you are wanting to move on quickly, you can use a hairdryer to help speed things up.

4. Draw in a branch with a pencil. Depending on the age of the child, they may need some help to do this. My daughter wanted me to draw her the branch and then she painted it in. Paint the branch with black paint and let it dry.

Related: Field of Tulips Q-tip Painting

Kids will love painting with cotton balls to create this cherry blossom art for kids.

5. Now the fun part! Using two shades of pink, one light and one dark, have the kids paint in the cherry blossom flowers with their cotton ball paintbrushes. Start with the darker shade first, then add the lighter pink.

There is no need to let each color dry in between, kids can paint with both colors at the same time.

Cherry blossom painting with cotton balls is the perfect spring art project for kids. Kids will love exploring and painting the gorgeous cherry blossom colors with cotton balls in this process art activity. A fun painting project for kids of all ages!

Painting with cotton balls was so fun for both of my kids I know that we will be using them again for another project. I just love how fluffy and vibrant the pink cherry blossoms look against the blue sky and black branch.

This cherry blossom painting makes such a wonderful spring craft for kids and looks absolutely gorgeous when done!

Fill in the form below to get your free printable template!

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We love creating and exploring with different art supplies and techniques. If you are looking for more art projects to try, take a look at our ultimate collection of amazing art projects for kids!

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Comments

  1. Carol

    March 12, 2018 at 10:38 pm

    Thank You For Sharing

  2. Penny Braund

    April 16, 2018 at 12:39 am

    Hi Angela,
    I did the Cherry Blossoms art project today with a friend who is physically challenged. It was a huge success! I chose this project because I knew my friend would be able to paint the sky blue and dab the cherry blossoms with the cotton balls. I will fill in the branch as it is too fine motor for him to do. He is very okay with that. He was thrilled to be able to see that he can paint!!! Thank you!!!

    • ProjectswithKids

      April 16, 2018 at 2:38 am

      Hi Penny,
      That is amazing! Thank you so much for sharing. I’m so glad that your friend was able to paint and create!

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