Who says you can only put funny motifs on it for carnival or HalloweenMake-up the children's facescan? This is also permitted and appropriate for other occasions and of course Christmas is no exception. Children love face painting, so give them a treat this Christmas and surprise them with a face painting afternoon! There are Christmas motifs suitable for face painting that you can use for this purpose and at the same time reinforce the Christmas atmosphere. We'll show you some of these ideas and options in today's article, with instructions intended to make the task easier for you. Before applying make-up, always apply a suitable cream as a base to protect the skin, make it easier to paint and make the make-up easier to remove later. Get started now!
Putting makeup on the reindeer
Colors required for make-up: white, copper or light brown, espresso, red metallic
A very popular motif is the reindeer. It is suitable for both girls and boys. If you would like to apply make-up to the children's faces with this motif, start with the nose, onto which you spread a little white make-up with a sponge in dabbing movements. Also spread the white face make-up a little towards the cheeks and the area above the lip, as well as in the forehead area between the eyes and the eyelids. Then use a light brown tone or a shiny copper tone to highlight the forehead. At the same time, mark the shape of the ears and let the brown face make-up on the outer and inner corners of the eyes blend evenly into the white of the eyelids. Then take the espresso color and create some highlights along the copper tone. Among other things, you also lengthen your eyebrows towards your nose.
Using the same epresso color and a brush, paint the antlers on the forehead and the nose in the form of a line over the white area. Then use the metallic red and white paint to finish drawing the ears. With the espresso, draw a few more contours in a dabbing motion. This creates a beautiful fur pattern. Use a thin brush to finish making up your nose and trace the lines along your eyebrows. At the same time you also add a few eyelashes. If this idea for children's make-up is intended for boys, you can also leave out the eyelashes. But they are very good for girls' face painting. In the video instructions you can watch the remaining steps with which you can complete the reindeer as a children's face painting Christmas motif.
If you would like to make Christmas motifs for children's make-up that can be done more quickly, you can also try out this reindeer. Only the area above the nose and cheeks is made up with a copper tone. The area under the eyes can be made up subtly pink. Then you need a red nose and a few white dots. Connect the nose and mouth with a dark brown line and apply reddish lipstick. Pair the makeup with an antler headband.
Mistletoe as an idea for face painting for children at Christmas
Required colors: light green, dark green, black, white, red
Mistletoe is also quick and easy to make up, and is best placed in the temple area on one side of the face. A great idea if you are looking for small motifs for children's make-up. First draw a leaf shape using light green make-up. This doesn't have to be perfect, as you'll trace the contours in black later anyway. Then add a few accents with dark green so that they blend well into the light green. At any point, draw three red dots that represent the berries. Take a thin brush and trace the edges of the leaves and berries. With the white color you can then add some accents such as stars or dots while theRed shade for the lipsand a few other patterns and motifs as desired.
The Grinch for face painting for boys
Required colors: poison green, dark green, white, red, black
There are Christmas motifs for face painting that every child is guaranteed to like. The Grinch, for example, is particularly suitable for boys. Using a sponge, first apply bright green make-up above the nose and along the forehead and on the eyelids. Using a sponge, add a few shades of the dark green color to the inner and outer corners of the eyes. Then take the white make-up and apply it to the forehead using pressing and twisting movements along the upper bright green edge. There is another white spot on the left cheek. These are the fur and pompom of the hat. For the red hat, pick up red paint and dip the edge of the brush into black paint. This is how you create the red and black border in just one time. You can also draw the red edge of the hat first and then the black outline with a thinner brush.
Then use a brush and dark green make-up to create the eyebrows and the grim wrinkles on the nose, cheeks and foreheadDIY Grinch. Use the black paint to draw some contrasts and contours, such as the boundaries between the red hat and fur or the eyebrows and the inner corner of the eye. You can also take a closer look at this in the video.
Paint Olaf on the face
Colors required: Light pastel blue, white, orange, black metallic, black
If you would like to learn how to paint children's face with Olaf, you can use these instructions. It is without question one of the most popular children's face painting motifs at Christmas. Dab the pastel blue from your forehead to your chin, forming a semicircle. Then use a thick brush and white make-up to paint the snowman's body as a children's face painting Christmas motif. For the nose use orange. Using a thin brush and the black metallic, draw the eyes and mouth, as well as the teeth, the contours of the body, the arms and the hair. Use a regular black for the buttons, eye pupils, and eyebrows. Use a soft focus tool to blur the contours that you drew with the black metallic.
Finally, you can add any decorations in white color. These can be such ornate motifs, but also snowflakes, dots and other shapes. The perfect finishing touch is some silver glitter, which you simply dab onto the colors with your finger.
Simple motifs on the theme of “Frozen”
There are a lot of different things about FrozenFace Painting Templatesthat you can use. You can also easily come up with something yourself. The only important thing is that you use the right colors. Use it to create winter motifs and you will have Christmas motifs for children's make-up that every girl will like.
