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Home » Science Experiments for Kids » Homemade Scratch Art Paper

Homemade Scratch Art Paper

Modified: Apr 15, 2025 · Published: Feb 12, 2018 by Emma Vanstone · This post may contain affiliate links · 1 Comment

Did you ever make homemade scratch-art paper pictures as a child? I remember making them using coloured pencils with black crayon over the top. They took an age to make and never worked that well. If only I’d known then that oil pastels make it so much easier!!

If you don’t have oil pastels, crayons are a good alternative. They just don’t work quite as well.

Materials

Oil pastels

White cardboard

Play dough tools

Instructions for Homemade Scratch Art

Use the oil pastels to add lots of colour to one sheet of card and then rub over the top with a black oil pastel.

scratch art paper made using oil pastels

How to make homemade scratch art paper #scratch art

Once you’ve completely covered the card in black, you can create your scratch art picture.

Image of easter eggs carved into homemade scratch art paper

Extension tasks – Homemade Scratch Art

Try using a white crayon to draw a picture on a white card. You’ll need to press down very hard. Once you’ve done that, gently crayon over the top using coloured crayons. You should find that the white resists the coloured crayons, giving you a lovely white outline on the page.

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For those days when you don’t want to make your own scratch art paper, we highly recommend these ready-made scratch art sheets from Melissa and Doug.

More Art and Science Ideas for Kids

We also love these bunny art pictures from Projects with Kids, or if you’re after a more traditional Easter craft, Red Ted Art has some brilliant Easter bonnets!

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scratch art images - themed for Easter

Last Updated on April 15, 2025 by Emma Vanstone

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  1. lisa bradburn

    February 13, 2018 at 3:58 pm

    I remember doing these as a child myself – you’ve jogged my memory to try them with the kids this half term – fond memories!!!

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