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Even in play based programs, sometimes it feels like the children should be doing more than “just playing.” Recently I read an excellent po...

Walking through a craft store, I noticed how many of the little bags of wooden craft parts looked just like the parts of the expensive wo...

Materials are only as good as the ideas they inspire. We’ve all had the experience of bringing a new toy or material into the classroom...

A new material I’ve introduced to my two and three-year old class is texture brushes. I’m sometimes skeptical of the art activities t...

One of the interesting features of full day programs is that there are often times at the beginning and the end of the day when there are o...

One of my favorite materials to use with older preschoolers are large glass beads (aka glass beads or sea glass). You can buy them in bulk ...

I’ve written before about how the scale of art materials affects how children use them.  Large paintbrushes and large paper elicit broad, w...