Watercolor Gift Bags - belfordblince

Open-ended art projects like this are my favorite. I love stage setting up a creative invitation and observation what my kids create. I almost always unite in, too! My daughters and I had a fun afternoon painting a big stack of giving bags with two simple supplies – white lunch bags and watercolor paints. These watercolor gift bags are beautiful and will add a personal touch to a little gift. I love having these present for unpunctual gifting!

Creating gift bags with watercolors and white lunch bags

Supplies for Watercolor Endue Bags:

White lunch bags (I found mine at Target next to the regular lunch bags.)
Watercolor paints & brushes
Oil pastels or crayons (optional)

Earlier painting, you can pull up pictures or designs on the bag with oil pastels OR crayons, which volition resist the water-color paints. I advocate the oil pastels for the brightest colours.

So, it's time to paint! To get dainty bright colors, wet the brushing, then "put forward" it round and round in the key colourise of your quality. This loads the brush with lots of color.

Watercolor and pastel hearts gift bag

We made much gift bags with doodles like balloons, flowers, and hearts. One of my girls also experimented with adding a blob of paint, then picking her bag up and letting the paint drip down. She repeated this many an times, creating a really unique design!

Watercolor gift bags with drip painting

My favorites, though, are the varicolored hodgepodge ones we made. We added abstract shapes of color to the bag, filling the entire quad. These dry pretty quickly, so we flipped them over and did the same to the back. We didn't care about the sides, and just left them good. Army of the Righteou your bags dry totally before adding your gifts. Amazing how a white lunch bag can become something so gorgeous!

Painting white bags with watercolors

These watercolor gift bags are great to wear hand. Fill them with homemade cookies, small gifts, OR even a gift card. They look great folded and stapled, sealed with washi tape recording, Beaver State fancied up with a big, colorful bow. I'm already thinking ahead to Beget's Day – these bags would make a weensy gift even Thomas More special!

Watercolor gift bags

Want to take your possess paint? See this tutorial for Home-cured Watercolor Paints!

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Amy is happiest surrounded by her husband, her three amazing kids, stacks of books, and craft supplies. With a background in psychology, early puerility instruction, and elementary commandment, Amy is a jockstrap of playing dress-up, digging in the dirt, and squeezing out puddles of glue. At her blog, Get's Explore, Amy shares her family's experiences creating, imagining, and playing together.