Pepper Paints

Pepper Paints

Projects for kids, tested at the kitchen table

Low-cost art projects, hands-on crafts and simple recipes you can set up in minutes with what is already in the cupboard.

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Making art at a kitchen table: small hands, paint and paper scraps

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Paint on sleeves, by design

Cheap supplies, short setups, honest mess

  • Supplies from the cupboard

    Projects start with poster paint, cardboard, flour and whatever the recycling box offered that morning.

  • Steps written while the glue is wet

    Instructions are written during the making, including the part that went sideways and the fix for it.

  • Cleared before dinner

    Every project says what to cover, what wipes off and how to hand the table back to the family.

Paper scraps, brushes and a half-finished craft on a family kitchen table

From the kitchen table

What Pepper Paints is for

This is a making diary for parents, caregivers and homeschoolers: art, crafts, learning-at-home afternoons and simple recipes, written up by the people who cleared the table afterwards.

Everything here is made, remade and made again with children at the table, so the steps describe what actually worked rather than what photographed neatly.

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