I had so much fun with this DIY Dog Mom project! Are you ready to teach your dog to paint?! It’s easier thean you might think…
I keep seeing this fun little painting project circulate through Instagram. I love crafting and DIY dog mom projects! It was hard to resist this fun opportunity to share and to teach your dog to paint. It’s more like fun snack time for your dog, but it creates some cute artwork that can be displayed in your home. Keep reading for more detailed instructions…
Ready to teach your dog to paint? Let’s start with some simple color theory…
Let your creativity (and your dogs) shine through! The fun thing about this project is you can choose whatever colors you want. To keep the paintings bright, and beautiful we want to try and avoid choosing colors that get muddy when blended. Check out the color wheel below for reference.
- Complementary colors: Two colors that are opposite from each other on the color wheel. For example: red and green, yellow and purple, blue and orange. These colors will cancel each other out when blended and make a brown or muddy color.
- Analogous colors: Three colors that are next to each other on the color wheel. For example, Blue, Green, and Yellow. As these colors blend, they will also make different hues in the same color families. These colors can blend to create beautiful artwork!
- Warm and Cool Colors: Blending colors like blue and purple can create a cool feeling. Blending red and orange can create a warm feeling. Choose cool, warm, or go crazy and mix them. Red and purple could create some beautiful tones together when blended.
- White and Black: White can help to mix with other colors to make more pastels. Black paint can be used to bring a little depth! Use black sparingly as it can quickly take over all of the other colors you’ve chosen.
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Supplies you’ll need to teach your dog to paint…
- Assorted small painting canvases. I found this pack of 3×3 canvases on Amazon.
- Assorted acrylic paints. I found a great pack of 16 small tubes of paint colors on Amazon.
- Sandwich sized ziploc bags.
- Easels to display your paintings on. This is optional. I found these really cute gold business card holders that I am using to display our paintings.
- A safe treat for your dog that is lickable or spreadable. I used Peanut Butter from Bark Bistro. You could also mash a banana, use plain greek yogurt, or used plain mashed sweet potatoes. If you’re using peanut butter make sure that it does not contain xylitol as this can be toxic to dogs.
It’s time to start painting!
This is a really simple DIY painting project for you and your dog. It only takes about five minutes for your dog to create a beautiful masterpiece!
Step One: Cover a small canvas in your chosen paint colors. Your placement of the paint on the canvas could be completely random or intentional. Let your creativity shine! Make sure to be generous with your globs or lines of paint so that it will spread easily.
Step Two: Spread your chosen dog-safe snack over each Ziploc bag that you’re using.
Step Three: Place your canvas in the Ziploc bag, squeeze out as much air as possible, and make sure the bag is completely sealed.
Step Four: I used some old dish towels to protect the surface of my floor but it wasn’t completely necessary. I placed each sealed bag on the ground and allowed the pups to enjoy licking the peanut butter from the bag.
The motion and pressure from your dog licking their treat off of the bag will allow the paint to safely spread over the canvas in the Ziploc bag. Make sure you’re monitoring them while they do this. I didn’t have any issues but you’ll of course want to make sure your dog is not trying to chew the bag at all.
Step Five: As soon as the dogs were done licking their peanut butter off of their bag, I was able to pull out their paintings and allow them to dry. I never knew teaching my dog to paint would be so simple and fun!
Step Six: Gently pull the paintings from each bag and allow them to dry for roughly one day.
Put your dog’s beautiful paintings on display once they’re dry!
These DIY dog paintings make great conversation pieces and add a little color to your home. I hope you loved this fun little project! If you do this project with your pup please tag us on Instagram @peace_love_frenchies. I would love to see your pup’s beautiful artwork.
Note: Please make sure to monitor your dog while they are ‘painting’.
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Bonus!
My friend and Petpreneur friend Tori at Wear, Wag, Repeat recently created a fun Paint With Your Dog blog post!
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I love her program so much that I became an affiliate for her program. Are you ready to join me and other amazing dog moms while we collaborate and build our pet businesses?
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