For more creative fun outdoors take a look at our list of outdoor art for kids.
We have so many fun outdoor art ideas for you to try. One of my favourite art ideas for summer is making nature paintbrushes and using them to make painty patterns on huge pieces of paper! Making bubble snake and water pistol painting is lots of fun too!
So back to the fun we had with our painted cardboard playhouse! I have added details below about where to get a cardboard playhouse and photographs of the fun we had with ours!
Where to get a cardboard house for kids
You can also get them in craft stores or from amazon. I have listed a few options below (the links are affiliate links which means I will earn a small % if you use these links, at no cost to you):
Painting a cardboard playhouse for kids
These cardboard playhouses are brilliant! They are admittedly quite small, but so much fun! Kids can be as creative as they like as they design their own house. You can colour them with pens, paint them or add stickers!
I made our cardboard playhouse up in the garden for the kids to paint. They couldn't wait to get started and they loved having free rein to design a cardboard house anyway they pleased. They threw, splatted and sploshed paint all over the cardboard and they had so much messy fun as they did it!
I only gave the children 3 colours to work with, red, yellow and blue so we ended up with a brightly coloured house, but you could definitely use different colours and get completely different results. I can imagine pearl paints, or sparkly paints would look amazing! Using different shades of one colour could look quite effective too.
Our house also came with some stickers which we added once the paint had dried.
The kids loved painting the house as well as themselves! They were totally covered in paint by the time they had finished. They then decided to paint inside the cardboard house too!
They loved going in and out of the two doors and popping their heads out of the windows.
Once the paint had dried we took the playhouse apart and made it up in our playroom. Harry added the stickers which came with the house.
The kids have had a brilliant time playing in their cardboard house. Harry has even added a few cushions to make it cosy.
Daisy: Age 21 months
You can paint or colour your own cardboard house anyway you please! We love our painted cardboard playhouse and we had so much fun with this mess art idea for kids. If you are looking for more fun art ideas take a look at all our outdoor art ideas for kids.
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