A nice little guide for parents looking to get creative with little ones, or for educators to use at school or preschool for art and creative time. 
I love the ideas in this book, many of which focus around paint pouring techniques, marbling, etc.
There are great ideas for artwork projects and things you can make out of your painted pieces, which in turn would make lovely gifts for friends and family.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publishers for letting me read an advance copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

This is a great book for "Grown Up's" who want to help, guide, encourage and support children while using paint pouring techniques. It covers equipment and goes through different types of techniques and styles and shows some ideas for projects to try too.

The Grown-Up’s Guide go Painting with Kids is a great book to have on your bookshelf if you’re a parent. 

It’s filled with lovely, colourful art projects and clear, easy to follow, step by step instructions (with photos!). 

This book definitely came in handy during lockdown, we completed a few projects from it.. they turned out great! 

3.5 stars!

I am always on the look out for books that help me develop some kind of project, for my work an at home with my children.
This books is well structured an helps you toting through all the many possibilities that you have with art projects.
You can find stuff for small children and  for older children. you can work with different styles and techniques and can build your exercises from scratch and have yourself and the kids a Funtime .

I enjoyed this book very much and it helped me tremendous with my work.

I know the book says it is for grown up's painting with children....but I think the book is incredible for adults painting on their own too!! It has a wealth of ideas and activities that are informative, inspiring, accessible and creative! It is a fabulous book for both children and adults!

The Grown-Up's Guide to Painting with Kids is a tutorial and resource guide filled with fun liquid art (paint pouring) projects for kids (and their adults). Released 2nd June 2020 by Quarto on their Walter Foster imprint, it's 128 pages and available in paperback and ebook formats.

I noticed something when going through this book. While it certainly is full of guided creative tutorials for painting with kids, I noticed *myself* opening up and not stifling myself at all during the process. This is an incredibly valuable side-effect of taking the focus off of ourselves and letting the process happen. I heartily recommend doing these fun exercises for us personally before we try them out with students or our own kids. I suffer a lot from the "instant expert" expectations for myself (happily, I don't do it to anyone but myself.. but it's still a drag, not feeling like my own art is "good enough"). This little book helped me get over that feeling a little bit.

Paint pouring is completely serendipitous and not under the artist's control in a lot of ways. That makes it perfect for concentrating on the process and creativity. The author uses about 15% of the page content giving a good introduction to the tools, materials, and techniques and then leads into the tutorials. A lot of the prompts are "what happens when we..." and include some really pretty finished projects like a cloud mobile with randomly colored raindrops.

Each of the projects includes an intro/description, tools and materials, and step by step photo tutorial. The photography is clear and abundant. There are color photos on every page. Alternate steps and enhancements are included for many of the activities.

This would make a superlative choice for a staying home activity, as well as a great idea for a library or classroom activity (when we can gather together again).

Five stars. There are a lot of good ideas here.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.

Warning some of the stuff in this book is messy - but the kids LOVE it.
Another great book for entertaining children through holidays, weekends and our tough times of Covid19. Lots of paint - dripping, pouring, splattering, squirting. Lots of paper tearing, ripping, cutting, gluing. And most of all lots of good times and fun projects to keep.

A nice guide to help parents engage artistically with their children. Sometimes it's hard to know where to start and this book provides nice jumping off points.

Great ideas and instructions for painting with kids. Its hands-on and easy to follow projects make the book a nice addition to any maker's shelves. Planning on purchasing and using the book as a guide for some library programs.

A great resource that comes during a timely season of life! Order your supplies from your favorite online retailer and brave the possibility of mess because this book and all the photos will make you want to paint as a family.

An amazing little book packed full of information and ideas for both adults and kids. Great inspiration for becoming the next Jackson Pollock. Create some great artwork for yourself or as gifts. Just make sure you have a big space to make the mess. Have fun.
Thanks to NetGalley for the free article.

The Grown-Up's Guide to Painting with Kids is an opportunity to paint freely with young people. I love how the acrylic pouring activities invite you to experiment with color and shape. I look forward to getting messy with this book with students and my little ones!

This book is wonderful!! I feel a few projects are more advanced so be sure to very closely supervise your littler ones as they move through these projects. This book has so many great ideas that I am very excited to try some of these! I would also like to say this doesn't just have to be for kids this book is wonderful if you just want to do something creative. The liquid pours are very well documented. I also really like the close your eyes activities were you doodle and then recreate the shapes with paint it is just a fun way to relax your mind.

There are so many fantastic and inspirational ideas that looks so good you wouldn't believe they are made by a child. I have already pre-ordered a copy and I am very excited to try these with my grand kids after our pandemic lock-down. I highly encourage you to get this book you wont be disappointed.

I received this book from Quarto Publishing Group - Walter Foster for an honest review.

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This book is great for parents with children that are a bit older but want to have some fun family time. My daughter is too young (2) to be able to do many of these but for an older child it would be fun. I like that there are a variety of project ideas so you can try a bunch of different ones using the same techniques.

This is basically a book on different ways to do paint pouring. Very messy, usually not done as a group or in a teaching environment. Could not be done without large amounts of paint.

What luscious paintings. Eye Candy. Creative ideas of cutting out the colored parts in different shapes and mxing them along in other media. Great fun, if you have some patience for clean up after.

I really enjoyed this book. It’s one I can see myself dipping into, especially during lockdown. I’d recommend it to home schoolers, parents and teachers.

When life for the entire universe and planet turns on its end and like everyone else you "have nothing to do" while your place of work is closed and you are in #COVID19 #socialisolation,  superspeed readers like me can read 250+ pages/hour, so yes, I have read the book … and many more today. (I have played a zillion games of scrabble, done a zillion crosswords and I AM BORED!!!)

I requested and received a temporary digital Advance Reader Copy of this book from #NetGalley, the publisher and the author in exchange for an honest review.  

From the publisher, as I do not repeat the contents or story of books in reviews, I let them do it as they do it better than I do 😸.

The Grown-Up's Guide series features how-to projects, creative prompts, and craft activities that will inspire you and your little ones to spend hours of fun together. Now you can learn the fun, trendy paint pouring technique—and teach your kids to do it too!

Paint pouring, also known as fluid art, uses acrylic paint and a variety of everyday tools to create colourful, abstract art poured on canvases and other surfaces. The Grown-Up’s Guide to Painting With Kids, prepare to get messy—some techniques require touching or even hitting the paint—but that’s half the fun! Kids will love the tactile nature of paint pouring, while you and the other grown-ups in their lives will feel good knowing that your children are exercising their creative and artistic playful side.

The book opens with an introduction to the affordable tools required to pour paint, from cups and canvases to stir sticks, paper, reusable straws, and more. Older kids--with the help of their parents, of course--might even learn to use a heat torch to create the cell-like structure typical in fluid art. Techniques are outlined so that you and your children can read about the pouring process before getting started. Then there are chapters on colour mixing tips, instructions for finishing paintings with varnish and other materials, and much more. The step-by-step projects that follow are fun, easy, and easily customizable by colour, surface, and skill level. They can even be done on surfaces other than canvas, such as coasters, pieces of wood, gift boxes, and much more.

Kids of all ages will love pouring paint. You can help too, ensuring family togetherness for hours as you and your children learn to create colourful, abstract art together with The Grown-Up’s Guide to Painting With Kids.

Paint pouring is SO MUCH FUN for people of all ages: it is my preferred painting method right now. This book is excellent and explains so many things excellently. Since we all seem to be home these days homeschooling our kids, this is fun as you can teach primary vs. secondary colours, perspective, math when mixing the ratios, etc. - you can teach without them really knowing they are "being schooled". It does not come out until June so maybe it will be a summer activity for you but if you live in a humid climate, be prepared to double your drying time, summer and winter alike!

One thing that it does not teach is that you can actually re-use your plastic pouring cups - just let them thoroughly dry between uses: I have cups that have 20+ layers of paint in them ... you can actually peel it out of ceramic cups if you don't want to use plastic cups. (I gather the ubiquitous red solo cups from events all the time and wash them to use for this vs. them being thrown out!) 

As always, I try to find a reason to not rate with stars as I love emojis (outside of their incessant use by "🙏-ed Social Influencer Millennials/#BachelorNation survivors/Tik-Tok and YouTube  Millionaires/etc. " on Instagram and Twitter... Get a real job, people!) so let's give it 🎨🎨🎨🎨🎨

The Grown-Up’s Guide to Painting with Kids is perfect for getting creative and messy is the very best way.  There are so many fabulous ideas in this is book and I really can’t wait to try them with my three kids ages 13, 9, and 5 as I feel they will all 3 have so much fun! 

I was provided with an electronic ARC through NetGalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.

I received an advanced reader copy of this book to read in exchange for an honest review via netgalley and the publishers.

This is a great book for parents/carers of chikdren to read to help them to help, guide, encourage and support chikdren using paint pouring techniques. It covers equipment and goes through different types of techniques and styles and shows some ideas for projects to try too. I really enjoyed this book and I'm not sure why it has been rated so low.