🎈 Balloon Painting Art Project for Toddlers and Preschoolers

This super simple and fun balloon painting project is perfect for toddler, preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten age children as a fun summer activity for kids! In this balloon activities for preschoolers, children will create a fun, open-ended craft while they paint in an outrageously FUN way – balloon paint art!

Balloon Painting

My kids love balloons. Whether we use the to decorate for a birthday, play games, throw them at each other filled with water, or any other balloon activity for kids we try. But have you tried balloon painting? This easy balloon painting allows toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergartners to have fun painting while creating a beautiful project. Try this summer art for preschoolers to allow kids to create modern art, add-on drawing, or make a beautiful rainbow art project. Whether you use this summer activity for toddlers or a spring rainbow activity for kids – this is sure to be a hit!

Balloon painting activity

All you need for this fun painitng activity for kids are the following materials you probably already have on hand:

balloons (any kind will do)
liquid washable pait
paper or canvas
markers, crayon, or colored pencils (optional)

Balloon painting ideas

For this project, blow up balloon to just big enough to fit in little hands and tie off. Set out with a plater of liquid, washable paint. Children will dip the balloon in paint and stamp on paper. Use to make a pattern, picuture, rainbow, umbrella, dot art, and more.

I like to have a blue balloon to dip in the blue paint, a yellow balloon to dip in the yellow paint and so fourth to work on color matching and color recognition at the same time.

Balloon painting art

To help younger kids figure out how to make an arch and space their colors to make a pretty rainbow, I suggest drawing the arches as a guide. Make the widest arch purple, then blue, followed by gree, yellow, orange, and red or similar.

Balloon art painting

Don’t the balloon marks make such a fun, texture project! I love the blending of colors and unique brush marks of using a balloon to press and make impressions along the arches to form a beautiful rainbow.

This rainbow craft is such a stunning project for kids of all ages!

Painting with balloons for toddlers

You can also use it to make pictures with all balloon marks or have them add a couple and then use crayons, markers, or coloured pencils to add in details to complete the project.

Balloon paint art

Young children simply enjoy the process of making the artwork and it makes such a lovely modern art style painting filled with lots of pretty color. You can put painters tape on the project first and when your child is done pull it off to reveal your child’s name to make name art if you like.

Balloon Painting

No matter what you create, this balloon painting technique is super simple and LOADS of fun!

Balloon painting for toddlers

This is such a fun spring craft for kids and summer craft with kids with so many possiblities! I love open ended projects that allow kids to express their creativity!