If you ever wonder what our go-to, must-have art and play materials are, this is our list!

What kind of makers do you have in your classroom? Do you have collectors, arrangers, or attachers? Read on to find out what we mean.

Pattern-making is an interdisciplinary practice that builds critical thinking skills. It helps children make predictions about what happens next and hone their reasoning skills, both of which help in early literacy and math, and of course, are elemental and innate in art-making.

Cardboard is free, abundant, and sturdy! It never rips like easel paper, and it is actually quite absorbent. These are all the qualities that make it the perfect choice for beginning painters.

Are you looking for ways to support your students’ creativity in the classroom? Working alongside teachers in a variety of contexts (early childhood, elementary, out of school), we’ve learned a lot about what instructional strategies are both easy for teachers and effective in real learning environments.

Children’s lives are busy and at times stressful: transitions from home to school, classroom to classroom, each space with its specific expectations and rules.

When children are accustomed to teacher-directed projects, it can take time to adjust to the flexibility and open-ness of more creative experiences.

I have been thinking a lot recently about how much of a child’s day is spent doing isolating, independent tasks.

Transform recycled and repurposed materials into a giant heart shaped, multi-texture, multi-dimensional painting experience.

Children love painting on an easel. Painting in a vertical position is also important for building arm and wrist strength, developing spatial awareness, engaging the core, crossing the midline, and more.

We cannot save everything our child makes, but they are only four once, and their drawings and paintings at these young ages are a record of their growth. Saving their art inevitably means implementing a sorting and storing system. Here are three tried-and-true storage ideas that we know will work.