Under the Sea Watercolor Art with Black Glue

Have you tried watercolor-glue resist paintings with the kids? This style of art is soooo addicting! To change it up, add black paint to your glue. A group of crafty bloggers all shared their ocean themed black glue crafts today and they are amazing! So vibrant and colorful with most including free templates for you to print at home. In this post, you’ll find the following under the sea watercolor art projects that use black glue for outlining: rainbow fish, seahorse, jellyfish, starfish, mermaid, octopus, turtle, shark, seashell, narwhal, and snail as well as Nemo and Dory-inspired.

Under the Sea Watercolor Art with Black Glue

If your child is obsessed with mermaids, then they will love our printable mermaid posters! There are 3 different sayings which can be seen in the rainbow mermaid pictured above and the pastel mermaid tails pictured below.

Sunshine Whispers made Nemo and Dory-inspired black glue art and it turned out awesome!

The Mad House made cheerful octopus using black glue and includes free templates – 1 of the swimming octopus and 1 of an octopus that’s just hanging out.

This seahorse watercolor craft is so vibrant and colorful and AMAZING! I love how I Heart Crafty Things bled her colors together to create the cool look.

The Rainbow Fish is a much loved book character. The Best Ideas for Kids made a pretty Rainbow Fish black glue craft to go along with the book.

Head over to Easy Peasy and Fun to see how she made this adorable turtle using black glue and watercolors.

How gorgeous is this jellyfish watercolor-glue resist art project?!  Arty Crafty Kids has a step-by-step tutorial so you can recreate this fun jellyfish craft at home with the kids.

This black glue snail craft is so darn cute! I love how they used paint splatters. Grab the free template over on Fireflies and Mudpies.

Another idea inspired by a book is this fun rainbow-colored narwhal craft made by hello, Wonderful. Instead of using regular glue, she used black glitter glue to make it sparkle. Perfect for the ‘It’s Okay To Be Different’ saying she shares along with it!

For a simple and fun black glue craft idea, head over to Rhythms of Play to get her starfish template. Kids can customize the face and details themselves too!

Add texture to your beach themed seashell watercolor art with this fun tip shared by The Pinterested Parent.

The black glue lines are perfect for having a stained glass look like this black glue shark craft.  See how Red Ted Art used this technique to create ocean bookmarks too! You can also find a video tutorial for how she made her black glue mix.

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 Life Under The Sea: Ocean Kids Coloring Book National Geographic Kids Ocean Animals Activity Book Melissa & Doug Paint With Water Activity Book – Ocean Disney Pixar Finding Dory Paint Palette Book

We hope you’ll give this fun black glue water color resist art a try! Before you go, we would love to show you this fun round up of ocean crafts to make with the kids of all ages this summer.

Amanda

Artsy Momma

Amanda is an ‘artsy momma’ to 2 kids who love making crafts just as much as she does. Follow their creative journey over on the blog titled Artsy Momma. Besides crafts, they share fun food ideas, hands-on learning activities, mommy DIY, + lots more! If you love handprint art, head over to their Fun Handprint Art blog where you will find hundreds of their projects all made with little hands and feet.