About This Video

In this guided activity video, JD leads participants through drawing and painting sunflowers with watercolor.

The activity begins with drawing sunflower centers, petals, stems, and leaves using a black marker. JD then guides participants through adding watercolor paint, rinsing brushes between colors, trying different color combinations, and experimenting with how watercolor blends and moves on the page.

Participants first create a group of three sunflowers, then have the option to continue with a second sunflower drawing that includes more detail, texture, and color blending. JD encourages participants to pause, rewind, take breaks, use their own colors, and make creative choices throughout the activity.

This video gives participants a calm, step-by-step art activity focused on drawing, watercolor painting, color experimentation, brush control, creativity, and pride in finished work.

Supplies Needed

• White paper

• Black marker

• Watercolor paints

• Paint brushes

• Cup of water for rinsing brushes

• Paper towel

• Extra paper underneath to protect the table

• Art binder

• Three-hole punch, if adding the finished artwork to a binder

Good For

• Adults with IDD who enjoy painting, flowers, sunflowers, colors, watercolor, nature themes, or creative art activities.

• Caregivers looking for a guided art activity with clear steps, flexible choices, and a finished project participants can save or display.

• Adult day programs, home routines, or group activities about art, color, fine motor practice, following directions, watercolor painting, and self-expression.

• Participants who benefit from calm pacing, visual modeling, encouragement, repetition, and permission to make artwork in their own style.

How to Use This Video

Use this video as a guided watercolor activity for a home routine, day program, small group, or independent creative time with support nearby.

Caregivers can gather the supplies ahead of time and help participants set up their paper, marker, watercolors, brushes, water cup, paper towel, and table protection. Because watercolor and marker can bleed through paper, it may help to place extra paper underneath the artwork before starting.

JD gives step-by-step instructions, but the sunflowers do not need to be exact. Participants can choose realistic colors, unexpected colors, different petal shapes, extra leaves, a background, or their own creative details.

Because this activity involves paint, water, markers, brush rinsing, drying time, and optional hole punching, caregivers can provide support with setup, managing spills, rinsing brushes, staying oriented on the page, using a three-hole punch, watching fingers near binder rings, or adding the finished artwork to an art binder.

At the end, participants can let the paintings dry, punch holes if using a binder, save the artwork, revisit the lesson later, or make another sunflower picture for someone else.