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Painted Palm Leaves

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Painting of Palm leaves is also another simple art activity. Painted Palm leaves can be added to a vase, this enhances the beauty of your home with a natural home decor. Let us go into further details about this. Acrylic Ceramic colors have been used along with a thick brush as seen in the picture. Do keep a small cloth and some water when you work, so you can clean the brush or wipe your hands. The Palm Tree in the pictures shown, we need to use these dried leaves. Just pick any long dry leaves. You just need to wipe them dry. Let us paint the leaf. You won't believe it looks lovely. A very natural resource from Mother Nature !!! Let us start painting each strand of the leaf as in the picture. Do place some paper below the leaf. Add direct color without mixing water. Let the painted leaves dry for a day or two. See how beautiful and natural these look ☺. You can also add some glitter and make them look shinny or add multiple colours to a single leaf. Y

Plastic Curd Containers as Pots

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These pots are simple plastic curd containers painted using acrylic ceramic paints. These containers can be used as pots for cactus or some decorative plants and can be placed in the garden or in the living room. The process here is very simple, just follow the below steps. Do keep some acrylic ceramic colors or any colors of your choice and a paintbrush ready for this job. Also, a small cloth and some water would be handy. The curd container looks as in the picture. It has a blue plastic covering surrounding it. The outer blue plastic covering needs to be removed as seen in the image. We now have a nice smooth white container to paint on. Paints can be used directly without any mixing of water. I have used direct paints so that the coat is thick enough with no transparency. Here is one of the painted containers. I have painted a lot more with the different colors green, blue, yellow, black, brown and many more. This is a lot simple and fun. Do try this out. You can use yo