Art and painting · lesson 15 of 24 · free

Brushes, tools and brush care — Art and painting for kids

Good tools make painting easier. A palette is for mixing colours, a water pot for rinsing, an easel holds your board upright, a round brush paints fine details and a flat brush makes wide strokes. Brushes last long if you rinse them between colours, wash them with mild soap, reshape the tip and dry them with the bristles up — never leave them standing in water.

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Clean, gentle, dry — “rinse between colours, wash with mild soap, dry the bristles up”

  1. Palette – mixing; water pot – rinsing; easel – holding the board; masking tape – holding paper flat; sponge – dabbing textures.
  2. Round brush – fine lines and details; flat brush – wide, straight strokes.
  3. Good care: rinse, wash with mild soap, reshape, dry bristles up. Bad: leaving it in water, dried paint, scrubbing, standing on its bristles.

Use it for: Setting up for painting, cleaning up afterwards and keeping your brushes like new.

Worked example: 🧰 Which art tool do we use for mixing colours? → palette

  1. Painters put small blobs of paint on a flat tray to mix them.
  2. That tray is the palette, so we use a palette for mixing colours.

Check: A clean brush keeps its point for fine lines ✓

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✓ Written and checked by the TalentJR team · Updated 13 Oct 2026 · How we make our lessons

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