If its the school holidays, rainy days or other reasons to keep the kids at home and you need things to keep them entertained then bust out the art boredom busters. If the kids are cooped up inside and getting a little bored and perhaps the caregivers are running out of ideas of what to do to entertain the kids this free tutorial may help.
A relatively free idea to bust the boredom for kids, is to grab some crayons and paper and head outside to do some rubbings of various surfaces. Use a variety of colours but for best effect remove paper from your crayon and use the side of the crayon. Pencils can also be used if you don’t have any crayons, the results may not be as effective, but give it a go.
Some ideas of surfaces for rubbing include tree trunks, leaves, shells, grates, bricks, gravel, asphalt etc. See which colours of crayons and surfaces give the best effect.
Cabbage Tree – Ti Kouka
If the weather is not great for heading outdoors see what things you can find inside to take a rubbing of i.e carpet, vases, colanders, rings on stove top, cheese grater etc but some assistance may be required in case things are precious and you don’t want them broken. 
Now what to do with all those pieces of paper? Turn them into wrapping paper, use them for a background in a drawing, make a collage, stick them on the fridge!
Go create some memories and let me know how you got on.
Fun Fact: Rubbing is possibly one of the oldest techniques used in printmaking. For more information see Rubbing origins
