Beans art projects

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bean mosaic tutorial:🩷🤍💛 This is a project I did with my little brother for one of his summer art lessons. (Swipe to see Trevor’s!) 🫘Bean mosaics are such a fun & easy art lesson to use this fall with your students! Here’s simple instructions below.👇🏼 MATERIALS: ✨Dry beans of different shapes & sizes (I used black beans & great northern beans) ✨Cardboard or wooden plaque -something sturdy rather than a piece of paper ✨Elmer’s glue (use the liquid kind, not the stick) ✨Acrylic paint…

This fabulous Bean Mosaic Owl is a wonderful project for fall or any time. Or use your creativity to design other mosaic animals!

I was cleaning out my pantry and found tons of really old bags of dried beans with very little left in them. Even though they were dated, and some rather dusty, they looked pretty in their natural colours, side by side. I decided to turn them into this mural for my kitchen. To make this, you just need some paints that are close in colour to your beans.

Celebrate autumn with these fall bean mosaics! This pumpkin and leaf shaped bean art is SO PRETTY! It's such a fun indoor activity for cooler days and a great opportunity for younger kids to practice their fine motor skills. Use dried beans, lentils, legumes, and seeds to decorate this fall bean art. It's an easy craft that looks great sitting on a mantle, side table, or as homemade decorations for your Thanksgiving table. This post contains affiliate links. If you use these links to buy…

If you’ve been to the Minnesota State Fair, chances are you’ve been exposed to a design phenomenon known as “crop art” or “seed art”. For the uninitiated, this is an art form consisting of seeds pasted on a board to make a picture. From the sacred to the political (and sometimes a little of both), there are few subject matters that haven’t been sown and subsequently shown in the halls of the Agriculture Horticulture Building. Anyone with the childhood memory of running out of Lite Bright…

I love staying home with my boys. I definitely don't miss various office politics!! I do miss the artistic process, though, the expressionism of it. So, I started to go back to my art projects as an outlet. I am busy with my various bean projects, inspiration of which I got from Ethan school's African bean masks. I love the various textures of the beans and their variety of color!! Here are some of my works:

Save all your cardboard boxes of all shapes and sizes for these awesome kids crafts!