Easy Art: Air Dry Clay
Material: Air Dry Clay Have you ever noticed that kids don’t need a lot of bells and whistles and fancy stuff to get creative, have fun, and feel on top of the world? Yesterday we foraged some cardboard boxes from…
Category Art Activities
How to Make Paint: Sweetened Condensed Milk
This recipe is a keeper because it comes together quickly, uses ingredients you probably have on hand, and it expands the way children think about art supplies. When children have the opportunity to invent things and imagine new possibilities (in…
Circular Patterns + Creative Thinking
Despite the thousands of ideas you’ve seen floating around the internet, do you ever feel like you’re at a loss for an art activity that your kids will enjoy, while also challenging them to think? Children get excited about solving…
Thrifting for the Garden
Is it warm in your part of the world? Are your kids spending lots of time outdoors? Summer is here and our garden is getting so much attention. My kids are happy when they’re outside, so I’ve been thinking up…
Tinker Tots: How to Take a Plush Toy Apart
Tinkerer: one who experiments with materials and ideas to fully understand their capacities, and who further iterates on their learning to find better solutions to current problems. Tinker Tots is a series of projects where I  share tinkering materials or tools that can…
Why is Tinkering Important?
I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. -Thomas Edison Â