Best Watercolours For Kids
Colours are a great way to keep children busy and help stimulate creativity and imagination. Kids love to use watercolours as they can be mixed to create new shades and are smooth to use. We have created a list of watercolours that are a must-have. They also make a good gifting option. A buying guide checklist follows the list to help you make the right purchase decision.
1. Camel Watercolours
The set includes a set of 12 shades of colours that provide a transparent effect. The watercolours can be used for creating textures and stamping. The backside of the packing has instructions to create new shades of colours by matching two different colours.
The colours adhere to safety standard EN 71-3. The colours are non-toxic and free-flowing. The watercolours are available in 6/12/14 and 18 shades.
2. Faber-Castell Watercolours
Faber-Castell colours come in two-packs with 6 colours and 12 colours. It is student grade watercolours.
The texture of the colours is deep and bright. They are transparent for mixing with other shades. The colours can be used for painting, drawing, sketching, and more.
3. Brustro Watercolours
The watercolours have pigment-rich vibrant colours. It has a foldable design to carry the colours when travelling safely.
It is a set of 42 colours, with each pan containing 1.5ml of colour. The set comes with a mixing palette, aqua squeeze brush, and attached watercolour sponge. The pans are refillable.
The colour set is ideal for plein air painting. The pack contains a Brustro watercolour paper 14X21 cm. Brustro artists’ watercolour pan colours are fade-proof, pigment-rich, and easy to blend to create different colours. The colours are for beginners and artists.
4. Doms Watercolours
The Doms watercolour cakes have excellent colouring strength for a smooth and transparent finish. The colour set comes in an easy to use palette lid. The colours are bright and intense.
5. Getko Watercolours
The set contains 42 bright colours that blend seamlessly, a round tip water brush pen with a brush, a removable sponge, and a mixing paint palette. The colours come in a 180 degrees rotating and folding design for ease of carrying when travelling or drawing outside.
The set colours have a rich, bright, striking, and vibrant pigment that mixes well and is easy to clean. The set is compact and can fit into a jacket pocket, backpack, and travel bag.
The water brush pen is durable, sturdy, and flexible with a large water storage capacity. The removable sponge enables the kids and artists to absorb extra water and clean the mess created while painting.
The colours are easy to melt, fast-drying, and sun-proof, durable, and they never fade.
Buying Guide
Colours and Quality
Go through the colour chart provided at the backside of the colour set’s packaging to get a fair idea of what the colours look like inside the packing.
Student quality watercolours help one get started on his artistic journey. They are perfect for beginners. If your child is learning to paint and colour, student grade watercolours would make an ideal choice.
Non-Toxic
Colours are a great way to connect the child with the world. Non-toxic watercolours make a perfect choice for toddlers.
If you are buying watercolours to keep your little one busy, make sure to go for a non-toxic and child-safe set of watercolours.
Tubes vs Pans
Tubes contain watercolours in liquid form, and pans have watercolour in dry cake form. Pans need to be activated by mixing water with the colour cake.
This can be a little tedious and gets even messy.
Tubs, on the other hand, are easy to carry and use. They do not create any mess as all you need to do is squeeze out the colour and seal the tube’s cap.
Tubes are even easier to carry when travelling and drawing outside.
Shades
It is up to you how you would like to use the watercolours to ignite creativity among kids. You can either have a set of six primary colours to mix two shades of colours to create a new one.
This will keep the kids busy in exploring different shades of colours. There are also watercolours available in 42 shades that do away with the need to create new shades.
