How to Make a Christmas Squeegee Painting
Make a Christmas squeegee painting and share your masterpiece with friends and family this holiday season. This Christmas squeegee art is SO FUN to make, and it's a great activity for all ages!
Yield: 1 squeegee art card
Cost: $1
Equipment
Materials
- Watercolor paper
- Acrylic paint (different shades of green)
- Black marker
- Foam stars
Instructions
Step 1: Find what you need
- Gather your supplies and materials.
Step 2: Fold watercolor paper into a card
- Fold a piece of watercolor paper in half to make a card. Set it down on a baking sheet (or another protected surface) with the fold on the left.(You can also buy blank cards!)
Step 3: Add a line of paint to the paper
- Use green paint to make an upside-down "V" near the top right of the card.
Step 4: Use a squeegee to paint the tree
- Place a squeegee down on the paper above the paint. Press down and pull the squeegee towards yourself, continuing all the way down the paper. You've created a tree shape!
Step 5: Paint more trees
- Repeat towards the left of the paper with a different shade of green. Then use a third green colour to create a wider upside-down "V" that's shorter than the other trees and overlaps them.
- Use the squeegee to pull the paint down the paper.
- Then create a shorter tree on the left using a 4th and final shade of green.
- Allow the paint to dry.On watercolor paper this should happen quickly, within 5 minutes or less.
Step 6: Draw branches and add decorations
- Use black permanent marker to draw branches on the frontmost tree.
- Repeat, adding different styles of branches to each of the trees. Draw on the front trees first and then fill in the gaps on the back 2 trees.
- Add glitter foam star stickers to the top of each tree.
- Your Christmas squeegee painting card is complete!
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Notes
Looking for more squeegee art projects? Here's a few of our favourites:
Shaving Cream Marbled Christmas Trees
Cat Squeegee Painting
Marbled Shaving Cream Hearts