Education & Inspiration

Craft Spotlight: Nature Stencils

Use detailed Nature Stencils to draw beautiful pictures while developing fine motor skills and encouraging image association. Each shape has a coordinating border to add interest to students’ drawings. The stencils kit features many different types of flora and fauna … Continue reading

Paint Bellows Tree

Use process-based methods to create colorful tree artwork! The techniques used involve materials such as Paint Bellows, fingerpaint and Squiggle Pipettes, all combined to give your students an exercise in fine motor development while enjoying the result of the final image.  … Continue reading

Bug Rubbing Plates

Find out how we used our Bug Rubbing Plates to make stunning suncatchers! The raised edges on our rubbing plates make it easy to develop impressions of the assorted designs. Create beautiful prints using simple materials! Age: 5+ Duration: 5-10 minutes Lesson … Continue reading

Chromatography Flowers

Find out what colors of ink are used in your markers! Chromatography is used to break a solution into its component parts. In other words, the colors of markers are often made by combining several other colors together. To split these … Continue reading

Craft Spotlight: Flower Forms

Flower Forms are plastic flower bases with slots for threading through your own petal designs! Make your own chain of flowers or use to decorate hair bands or bracelets!  Flower Forms come in a variety of colors to match various … Continue reading

Craft Spotlight: Architecture Paper

Draw houses and fill in the details with Architecture Paper! This special paper takes the best elements of a building, and spruces them up with a range of gorgeous designs. Switch out a brown door for a red door, add … Continue reading

Craft Spotlight: Wild Weaving Mats

Weave wonderful animal mats using pre-cut printed strips. Create patterns while developing fine motor skills!  The animal mats are made extra-large so you can hang the finished decorations up on a jungle-themed wall mural. They are pre-cut with slots to … Continue reading

Craft Spotlight: Fabric Mosaics

R15651 Fabric Mosaics are great for tactile activities such as beading and stringing! Who knew! At our art camp, we tried out a technique where we interwove Brilliant Beads with Fabric Mosaics on string to make colorful and unique jewelry!First, … Continue reading

Craft Stick Bracelets

Make beautiful bracelets using our R39100 Wild Animal Craft Sticks! An ingenious process creates a curved shape in the craft stick that you can use as a bracelet! Age: 4+ Duration: 10 minutes. Project dries overnight. Learning Objectives: Combine craft stick designs with … Continue reading

Craft Spotlight: My Very Own Puppet Theatre

Play and perform with your personalized puppet theatre! The projects are die-cut to look like theatre curtains and come with two puppet cutouts to decorate and use as characters in your very own play! R39201 My Very Own Puppet Theatre projects … Continue reading