If you want to combat an afternoon slump, try stretching, changing your environment or listening to different types of music – these simple steps may help restore focus and spark creativity!
Create captivating generative art with just a tennis ball and white paper! This activity is suitable for kids of any age to join.
Tennis Ball Prints
As the perfect sports gift for young athletes or to honor your favorite furry partner’s passion for chasing tennis balls, this art print will surely impress. Showcasing a vibrant yellow tennis ball framed in an attractive wood modern frame, it makes an elegant statement and looks at home in any stylish tennis-themed room.
This museum-grade giclee printed on thick, durable paper with a matte finish will last a lifetime in your home. Ready-to-hang with an easy white border for mounting, and signed by the artist on its back.
A sphere is the most prevalent shape in nature and an essential symbol of tennis. Early balls were constructed out of anything wrappable around an animal intestine; today brightly-colored tennis balls play an integral part in this timeless sport and its rich history. This colorful poster serves as a wonderful reminder of its history.
Tennis and Pop Art don’t often mix, but this painting proves that they do. With its abstract image that features tennis players playing their sport – sure to spark conversations – this painting makes for the ideal addition to any tennis-inspired space and should certainly spark conversations!
This artwork is a handmade limited edition artist print designed and signed in pencil by Shrigley himself. Suitable for framing at 5×7″, its lower right-hand corner features the edition number that’s unique to every copy – part of his ongoing move towards interactive public art with meaning as well as humor (he recently pulped 6,000 copies of The Da Vinci Code while creating his own version of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four), where he excels in creating work that’s both serious yet playful at once.
Paper Plate Rackets
Paper Plate Ball Tennis Activity for Toddlers or Preschoolers This simple activity is an excellent way to keep toddlers or preschoolers occupied and moving while also helping develop gross motor skills, hand-eye coordination and counting abilities. All it requires are paper plates, jumbo popsicle sticks and balloons! Simply attach one jumbo popsicle stick to the back of each paper plate before using as racquets in passing back and forth the balloon between players while holding onto their racquets; play may help develop gross motor skills, hand eye coordination as well as counting skills! You could even keep score for competitive games of balloon tennis!
Paper plate crafts make wonderful additions to any room decor! One such great paper plate idea is this colorful tissue paper tennis ball craft, perfect for little hands to learn how to play ball by themselves or together with their peers. Additionally, its decorative qualities will add color and character to any room!
Paper plate crafts offer endless creative possibilities, perfect for children of any age and occasion. Be it summer activities to keep kids occupied during boredom-inducing summer heatwaves or items your school-aged children can bring home for creative play, these fun paper plate projects are sure to please and all require supplies you already have at hand! So grab glue, markers and music and start crafting tennis-themed art and crafts this afternoon – guaranteed fun is waiting!
Paper Bag Tennis Player Puppet
Paper bag puppets can provide children with hours of entertainment while developing both creative and social skills. Your child will delight in designing his or her own characters and performing for friends or family – perhaps they even use hand puppets as part of a story about one of their favorite athletes or sports teams!
Make your own paper bag puppet by starting with a plain brown or kraft paper lunch bag large enough to cover your child’s hand. You can paint it a different hue before beginning; allow enough time for this step before continuing any decorating or assembly of the puppet.
Once you are ready, draw a mouth on the bottom of your bag’s front flap – this can be as big or small as desired! Additionally, create two eyes by drawing an outline on top of the bag and coloring it in or adding googly eyes from our free printable eye template.
Once your puppet has a face drawn on its front, fold down its top flap over its mouth to close it and insert your thumb of your dominant hand into one of the openings along its exterior center crease, before inserting your other fingers in another opening along its exterior edge. Use your hand to move its mouth open and closed while your other fingers help hold up its body like a head.
Your puppet tennis player can be transformed by adding tennis uniform, shoes and other accessories made out of construction paper or any other available material. You could even opt for leaving their head bald so they can draw some hair later if desired!
If you want to give your children an arena for puppet shows, create one out of cardboard by building a stage out of an old box or piece of flat cardboard. Decorate it with curtains or fairy lights to set the atmosphere for an incredible puppet show experience!
Paper Plate Tennis Paddles
As Wimbledon fever sweeps across the nation and world, kids will adore these simple yet engaging paper plate tennis racquet crafts! Practice swinging away in their own homes while getting those endorphins pumping! Plus, this craft helps develop gross motor skills, hand-eye coordination, while giving kids an outlet to release some tension!
Begin by embellishing the front of a paper plate with doodles, patterns or paint. When dry, use hot glue to secure a craft stick to its back side – or if necessary use wood or cardboard as handles instead!
Next, inflate a balloon as the tennis ball. Players can either bat it back and forth between themselves or set up a court with some tape on the floor and compete against one another directly – in either case counting up points as you play will help strengthen counting skills!
Fill your balloon more for younger children so that it flies slowly and is easier for them to hit; with older kids, fill it less so the ball will fly faster and create greater challenge.
Once players have their racquets ready, they can engage in various exciting games and activities to develop their gross motor skills. From trying to keep a balloon aloft for as long as possible to balloon tennis where players need to hit a ball across a room before it lands on the floor – there are countless exciting activities designed to develop gross motor abilities!
This project requires just a few supplies from your craft cupboard, making it the perfect way to promote exercise while having some fun together! Furthermore, this activity encourages children to get up and move while making memories together!