Cheek Face Painting Designs

Looking for some cheek face painting designs? These simple and easy face painting cheek designs will help you have fun in a party or make a special appearance on Halloween day. The following free cheek face painting designs will help you get started with face painting.
Kids love to have fun with their favorite animated characters and cartoon idols. They enjoy displaying their clothes, mugs, bags, etc. with a printed image of their favorite cartoon. When you are having a birthday party for your kid or take them to the local fair, kids love to get cheek face painting designs tattooed on their faces. And face painting for Halloween eve is a must for every kid. There are a number of simple and easy face painting cheek art designs to choose from. The following free face painting designs for kids will help you and your kid have fun with some cool designs for face painting.

You will need some face painting supplies before you get started with your kid's face painting. You will need different colors of face paints, medium and small sized paint brushes, some astringent, cotton balls, sparkles, etc., as face painting supplies. Let us go into details of a few face painting pictures.

Face Painting Cheek Art Designs
If you are searching for some inspiration for your face painting pictures, then you can refer many kid's craft books with pictures. There are many books that give step-by-step instructions for beginners. It is not necessary to buy an exclusive face painting cheek designs book, you can even refer to any art and crafts book. There are many websites on face painting that give face painting ideas for beginners, simple face painting designs and even Halloween face painting for kids. Let us learn drawing a few kid's face painting pictures with this article.

Face Painting Cheek Design Ideas

face painting cheek designs

Sketch by Priya Johnson
Face Painting Design ideas
  • Butterfly: Butterfly is the most popular cheek face painting design among girls. To paint a butterfly, all you have to do is take a small brush and paint four small wings on the child's cheek. Then using another paintbrush give an outline to the wings with black paint. Make a line in the middle for the body and paint antennas on the butterfly's head. Viola! You are ready with you butterfly face painting cheek design.
  • Octopus: Boys will love this eight legged cute cheek face painting design. You will need to paint a round head in purple with eight wriggly legs scattered in all directions or facing one direction. Use white paint to color the eyes. When the white paint dries up, make two small dots in the white patch to add detailing in the eyes. Make a small smile with black paint in place of mouth. You can even make your octopus wear a hat!
  • Pumpkin: One of the most popular Halloween face painting cheek designs is pumpkin. Draw a slightly elongated circle in orange. Using a small paintbrush, make a thin outline with black paint. Draw thin ridges on the orange paint to add detail to the pumpkin. Using a green paint, draw a stem. You may even draw two black triangles in the center for eyes and a small upside down triangle for nose. Paint a toothy mouth and you will have a pumpkin converted into a jack-o-lantern.
  • Sponge Bob: One of the favorite characters for kids cheek face painting designs is, 'Square Pants Sponge Bob'. Make a yellow rectangular 2D geometric shape. Use white face paint to add details of shirt and brown for pants. Using black paint add the details of Sponge Bob's face. Refer to any website with a picture of Sponge Bob and get your face painting design ready.
  • Balloons: The most easiest of all face painting cheek art designs is balloons. Just use any color you like and paint small round shapes with black strings. Outline the round shapes using a thin black line.
  • Snake: You can draw a little wriggly blue snake with a little two edged tongue. You can add details like vertical lines on the body with black and white paint to complete the snake skin look.
These were some very simple and easy face painting cheek designs to paint your kid's face into a mirage of colors and pictures. This is a fun way to make a gloomy day bright or to complete the fun at a party. Begin with these simple face painting for kids designs and you may end up being a pro in cheek face painting.

By Batul Nafisa Baxamusa
Published: 10/31/2009
 
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