Claude Monet inspired Water Lilies Art for Kids

Using Claude Monet's Water Lilies paintings as inspiration create your own water lilies using a paper plate and cupcake liners. This simple piece of Monet inspired art for kids is perfect for toddlers and preschoolers, but older kids would enjoy it too.

This month we are hosting an 'Exploring Famous Artists' series. Have fun checking out some of the other activities inspired by famous artists.

Claude Monet is famous for his collection of paintings of water lilies. His paintings can sometimes look quite abstract.

Claude Monet inspired Water Lilies Art for Kids

To make a piece of Monet inspired artwork for kids you will need:

• Finger paints (green and blue)
• Paper plate 
• Cupcake liners (green, white and pink)

How we created our Monet inspired Water Lilies painting

Daisy (21 months) loved getting messy as she painted a paper plate using blue and green finger paints.  

While she was busy painting I made the lily pads.  I made our lily pads from cupcake liners.   I cut a triangle out of green cupcake liners to make them look like lily pads. 

I helped Daisy glue the lily pads to the paper plate pond and then we added some white and pink lilies.  To make the Lilies I cut off the outer edge of the pink and white cupcake liners and then snipped towards the middle to create petals. I scrunched them up a bit and Daisy helped to stick them down. 

Our water lily painting was quick and easy to make but quite effective I think! 

If you enjoyed this Monet inspired craft check out our Monet Bridges Art for kids too.

This artwork is part of our 'Exploring Famous Artists' series.  Click on the image below to be inspired by more famous artists. 

Daisy (21 months)