How to Create Clown Art Projects

Clowns have happy painted faces with big red noses, and fun clothes and bright colored hair. If your children are into clowns there are many projects you can create for clown art. Children can use their imagination and artistic talents to help create clown art projects and have some fun.

Juggling Bottles

Have many 16-20 ounce plastic bottles and give three or four of them to each child. Give the children tempera or acrylic paints and have them paint the bottles to look like a clown. To add some noise to the bottle, put some craft bells or dried beans inside them. Allow the paint to dry. One completely dry, let the children practice juggling their clown art bottles. 

Paper Mache Clown Head

Kids can create a clown head over a balloon that is halfway-inflated. Cuts strips of a paper grocery bag or newspaper and dip them into diluted glue or starch. Let the child place the strips one at a time onto the balloon until a head shape forms. The kids can add additional paper mache to form facial features such as ears and hair. Once the paper dries on the balloon, provide paint and crafts for the children to add hair, eyes, noses and painted faces to their clown heads. You can also glue on a cone-shaped cup for a clown hat.

Invisible Dog Leash

Provide each child with a clean white work glove and give them paint and markers to decorate their clown "hand." Straighten out a wire clothes hanger to form a leash for their "invisible dog." Give the kids aluminum foil to twist around the wire hanger. Make a dog collar by twisting chenille stems together and then bend them into a circle. Bend one end of the hanger so that it fits around the child's hand. Let them put on their clown glove and "walk" their pretend dog.