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28 Collaborative Art Ideas

September 15, 2021 By Jamie Dorobek 11 Comments

Remember when I gave 100+ kids syringes and spray bottles full of watered down paint to create a peice of art earlier this year? Our masterpeice was made for the annual Art of Giving. It’s an annual event that raised $202,000 for art and music therapy endowment in 2021 for Dell Children’s Hospital in Austin, TX. Local artists and kids come together to collaborate and make art that local businesses sponsor. This was my 6th time to participate in the Art of Giving, and I already signed up to do it again next year!

The final part of the Art of Giving is called The Giver Gallery. All of the collaborative art pieces created at the Art of Giving are displayed at a local art gallery for a weekend. The sponsors are invited to meet and mingle with the artists and then pluck their piece of art off of the gallery wall to bring to its new home! It is a really fun way to close out the event and see how the final pieces of art turned out.

28 Collaborative art ideas for kids

28 Collaborative Art Ideas

For more collaborative art ideas, don’t miss:

  • String art (1st Art of Giving)
  • Tissue paper art (2nd Art of Giving)
  • Spray bottle and syringe art (3rd of Art of Giving)
  • Bleeding tissue paper house (4th Art of Giving)
  • Matisse inspired collage  (5th Art of Giving)
  • Collaborative painting (6th Art of Giving)
  • Paint chip flag art (Created with 100 kids at a Home Depot kids workshop)
  • 12 Collaborative art projects (All of the pieces from the 1st Art of Giving)
  • 13 Collaborative art projects

1. Becca Borrelli

Becca is an illustrator and professional doodler. She had kids listen to iPods while they watercolored in cool colored tones. She also had salt and straws to give the watercolor unique texture. Becca added her artistic touch after the piece was dry. I love how it turned out!

Becca Borrelli listening to music while painting

Becca Borrelli Art of Giving

2. Terry Powell

I love Terry’s art! He lets the kids go wild with paint and then turns their masterpiece into whimsical animals, trees, and flowers after the event.

Terry Powell Art of Giving

Collaborative art Terry Powell

3. Jamie Dorobek

Way too many details about how to make a collaborative tape painting with kids here.

Collaborative painting

4. Troy Allen

Troy is known for his interactive art displays. This year he set up a space with a fan, leaf blower and styrofoam balls covered in crayons for kids to play and make art on the white paper taped to the floor. His creation produced 8 pieces of art!

Troy Allen Interactive art

Interactive art

5. Jet Baker

Jet encourages the kids to use paint palette spatulas instead of paint brushes, it was a big hit! This year, his peice was sponsored by Q2, so he used a stencil to guide the kids art. (Q2 sponsored my peice the first year I was involved!) He is also the mastermind behind the nonprofit, Share Art Heal!

Jet Baker Collaborative art

Jet Baker Art of Giving

6. Jet Baker

One of my favorite things about Jet’s paintings is the first word on the canvas is always “love”. This year he had the kids use paint palette spatulas, and after the event he added wildflowers! Jet’s final painting is the gorgeous red flower in the picture below.

collaborative art ideas

7. Janna Sammon

I personally love her colorful, whimsical style of art, I’d love to have a few of these in our house! Most of the artists uses a 3×3 canvas, but Janna prefers wooden boards for her paintings. She gives the kids a color palette and lets them go wild. I love how she created mini paint brushes with old gift cards. If you look closely you can see how she cut shapes in one end of the Amazon gift cards and let kids use these to make designs in the paint. Genius!

Janna Samon Art of Giving Before

Collaborative Art Ideas with Janna Sammon

Janna Sammon

8. Jamie Dorobek

Way too many details on how to make syringe and spray bottle paintings here.

Spray bottle painting and syringe painting

9. Jamie Dorobek

These are the other 3 pieces of art I created with the kids at the Art of Giving. The top 2 are more of the spray paint and syringe paintings. The bottom one with multiple houses was my original idea for the 2017 Art of Giving. After making the bottom piece with Maxwell, I decided against it. It could be a fun collaborative art piece with a little more planning, but I liked the idea of letting kids go wild with syringes better.

Jamie Dorobek Art of Giving

10. Elizabeth Bryan-Jacobs

I love how these wings turned out and that they also made a great photo op at the Giver Gallery! Each kid painted a feather at the Art of Giving and she turned the feathers into a bgorgeous set of angel wings.

Feathers collaborative art ideas

Collaborative art ideas wings

11. Sylvia Betts

Sylvia created the background, moon, and crow before the Art of Giving. At the event, each child added a star with sparkling star with nail polish!

Sylvia Betts Art of Giving

12. Nancy McMillen

Nancy’s paper creations always amaze me. The kids do prints on paper and the Nancy cuts the paper into strips and to form her art. I love the addition of the paper airplanes in this piece.

Nancy McMillen Painted Paper

13. Sue Moore

 wish I knew more about how this piece was created. At the actual Art of Giving, I’m so busy at my station I don’t always get a chance to see everyone else’s process.

Sue moore

14. Jan Heaton

Jan had the kids watercolor hearts on 2 x 2 sheets of watercolor paper. So simple and sweet.

Collaborative art ideas

15. Gil Bruvel

Bruvel turned kids drawings into wooden sculptures to sit on top of one of his iconic masks made out of wood sticks. Incredible!

Collaborative art with kids

16. Mila Sketch

Mila turned her painting into coloring sheets and used the finished coloring sheets as inspiration for her painting. If you look closely, you’ll find things like aliens and spaceships, butterflies, and suns that kids added to their coloring sheets! See more of Mila’s process on her Instagram.

Collaborative art by Mila Sketch

Here are 12 more collaborative art projects for kids! Have you ever made a collaborative art piece with a group of people? I’d love to hear!

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Comments

  1. Laura Remedios says

    November 8, 2019 at 11:41 am

    How are the canvas feathers assembled together? What is used as a base for the feathers?

    Reply
  2. Nik says

    March 28, 2019 at 2:34 am

    What a lovely idea! What a great way to raise money for a great cause.

    Reply
  3. Samal Alpysbayeva says

    May 17, 2018 at 3:01 am

    What a lovely idea! These feathers can decorate my english room and inspire my students to be more artistic!

    Thank you.

    Reply
  4. Varsha says

    December 26, 2017 at 1:00 am

    Such super work ! I work with under privileged children … is it possible to display their group art??

    Reply
    • Jamie Dorobek says

      December 27, 2017 at 3:03 pm

      Of course! Kids love to see their work displayed!

      Reply
  5. Sarah Leese says

    July 31, 2017 at 2:19 pm

    These are such great ideas! I love the feathered angel wings, and the spatula stencil art, just showing if you let the kids loose it ain’t always gonna turn out messy

    Reply
  6. horn beads says

    July 21, 2017 at 2:03 am

    That’s an absolutely perfect shade for this, beautiful! Love this so much!! What an adorable ideas.

    Reply
  7. Kim Langlais says

    July 17, 2017 at 9:33 pm

    Absolutely Love the Painted Paper Feather Wings. We Sell Bulk Feathers and Would Love to Share this on Our Website with a Link to Your Website of Course. Let Me Know if this is OK…(0:

    Hope You Say Yes,

    Kim Langlais

    http://www.smileyme.com/bulk-feathers.asp

    Reply
  8. Vicki says

    June 21, 2017 at 1:03 pm

    Some great inspiration. I teach art at a private school and create a collaborative piece each year to be auctioned at their annual fundraiser.

    Reply
    • Jamie Dorobek says

      June 21, 2017 at 9:05 pm

      Such a great idea! I would love to hear more about the pieces you create!!

      Reply
  9. Virginia says

    June 14, 2017 at 8:13 pm

    Looks like fun. I would’ve wanted to be one of the kids getting to participate! What a great way to raise money for a great cause.

    Reply

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