One of the important kids art lessons in an art classes for children are landscape painting. Before teaching the kids to paint, the teacher should teach them the colour chart. They should have a knowledge of the colour that is obtained with a combination of two or more colours. It is very important for landscape painting and that too with watercolours, because while using watercolours the water on the paper can spread the colours into each other and give an undesired effect.

The children are provided with pictures of landscape that they can paint. While teaching the children how to draw landscape, first thing that the teacher has to do is make them observe the landscape well, and teach them about the perspective. Perspective is representing a three-dimensional object on a two-dimensional surface to give the correct impression of their height, depth, width, and position in relation to each other. This can be explained by making the children observe few works of art which display perspective and show how the objects that are faraway appear smaller and the objects that are near by appear bigger comparatively.

Let them have the ingredients for painting the landscape ready. Let them have the basic colours that are needed to paint that particular landscape ready like the greens, browns, blues, whites, etc. Teach them to layout the paint on the palette in a particular order always, so that they get used to the same order eventually. The children should have wide brush to fill in the larger details and fine point brush to fill in finer details and to outline the shapes.

Ask the children to fix the landscape picture onto the easel, so that they can look at it and paint. Ask the children to start sketching from the point where the sky meets the ground, which is called the horizon line, this will help in developing perspective. Next they should do a rough sketch of the details like the trees, house, birds, clouds, or whatever details are there on the picture. Once the outlining is done, the children should lightly cover the entire paper with water using a wet sponge. If too much water is applied, it can be removed by using tissues to absorb the excess water.

Children should be allowed to experiment with the colours, so that they can learn through trial and error methods. The teacher can ask the children to use masking material like tape to protect the finer details before filling in the larger details. Finer details can be filled in later on after peeling off the tapes. Children can either use sponge to spread colours to the larger details like the sky and the ground or a wide brush. Once the larger details are covered, they can wait for sometime until the paints dry. Then they can start working on the finer details and fill in these using a fine point brush and use appropriate colours to get the desired effect. The children should keep looking at the picture as they paint, so that they do not miss out on details and the colours.

Once they are finished, applaud them for their efforts.