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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Latest projects and recipes
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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.
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.