How to Make a Cherry Blossom Painting with Q-Tips
Kids will love making this easy cherry blossom painting with q-tips! It's simple, fun, and the results are truly beautiful. With a few basic craft supplies and a little creativity, you’ll have a gorgeous cherry blossom tree painting in no time.
Yield: 1 cherry blossom painting with Q-Tips
Cost: $1
Equipment
- Paper plate (or paint palette)
Materials
- Free Printable Tree Outline
- Cardstock
- Acrylic paint (brown, and multiple shades of pink and red)
Instructions
Step 1: Find what you need
- Gather your supplies and materials.
Step 2: Create the trunk
- Print one of our free tree templates. You can find one link in the materials list above, with more below this tutorial.
- Place a piece of white cardstock or watercolour paper on top of the template and trace the tree trunk outline with pencil.(You can place the tree template on a well lit window or another light source if you can’t see the template well enough.)
- Use a paintbrush to add brown paint to the tree trunk. Allow to dry for 5 to 10 minutes.
Step 3: Paint the blossoms
- Make a bundle of 5 q-tips and connect them with a rubber band or a piece of tape.
- Add paint to a paper plate or paint palette, placing the colours close together so they meet in the middle. We used 2 shades of pink and a complementary red.
- Dip one end of the q-tip bundle into the center of the paint. You can also focus on only 1 or 2 colours at a time, but we like to start by using all the colours.
- Dab the q-tip bundle lightly off to the side, removing a bit of the paint. You don’t want too much paint to remain on the q-tips, or else the paint will transfer in blobs.
- Stamp the q-tips onto the page, above the trunk or on the tips of the branches, depending which template you use.
- You can stamp with the q-tips several times before getting new paint. Continue stamping until you run out of paint, or the paint looks very faint.
- Grab more paint with the q-tips and continue forming the top of the tree. You can layer the leaves to create a full looking tree, or just go over the area once for a more sparse tree.You can also add an accent colour (like white or a blush pink) with a single q-tip.
- Your cherry blossom painting with q-tips is complete!
- Have fun making a series of paintings using each of our free printable templates!
Video
Notes
Looking for more q-tip painting crafts? Here's a few of our favourites:
Q-Tip Fall Tree Painting
Halloween Q-Tip Painting
Q-Tip Flower Painting