Kids Face Painting Ideas

There is Satisfaction in Face Painting on Kids

Face painting is an art that can be undertaken by anyone, amateur or professional. It's a fun way t entertain your children on a boring afternoon. Rain or shine, you can bring smiles with this simple entertainment. If you're brave, you can even allow them to paint each other!

Kids of high school ages have enjoyed painting faces for pep rallies. They have painted their mascot paws, team logos or names, school names and colors on their faces for fun and for fundraising. It's an easy way to earn money for the senior class or an upcoming class trip. They have set up booths at local arts and crafts shows, midnight madness sales, and during special school functions. Low prices keep the student customers coming back or persuade them to purchase more than one picture.

Face painting has been used as a way to earn money for special needs, such as a charity event. Sometimes it helps build an account for someone hurt in an accident or who has been discovered as having a debilitating illness, such as a heart condition, cancer, or leukemia.

The ideas for kids face painting are limited only to the imagination. When painting faces of a younger child, you must have patience, allow time for possible fidgeting, and keep your design simple. It helps perfect your talent to practice the chosen designs in advance of an event. Most children would be happy to cooperate in being a guinea pig for your practice sessions.

You may get ideas for designs from popular cartoons, movies, coloring books, drawing books, the animal section in your local library or bookstore, magazines featuring flowers, catalogues, and toy stores. You could also ask the neighborhood kids for ideas. When drawn into the planning, kids can be extremely helpful and imaginative. Ask them to how you their favorite characters or to choose pictures from their own book collection.

A silly and fun idea is to paint a fingerprint of a parent on a child's face, using the person's own finger, of course. Maybe for laughter, you could even paint a toe print of a child on a parent's face. Paint the name of a favorite pet on a kids face. A mom at home could try dipping a willing pet's paw into the paint and stamping it onto the kid's face. For quick fun, try face painting stamps. Draw a picture of a face onto a big piece of paper and have the child stamp a design on the face. Regular rubber stamps can be used for this, of course. But for actual human face use, there are special face stamps.

Idea for places to do kids face painting include: shopping malls, hospitals, birthday parties, charity events, festivals, school events, flea markets, church functions, craft shows, parades, open house events.
Hobby stores may offer classes for kids face painting or might allow you to offer classes yourself. They may be interested in allowing you to set up in order to draw more business and delight their younger shoppers who accompany the parents or relatives.