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Favorite Products
What items do you like to keep in your arts and crafts drawer (or box or however you store your supplies)? These are a few of our favorite items.
Crayons
Our children can never seem to have enough crayons. I do find that different brands are better than others. However, I let them keep a mixture of crayon brands in a plastic box. They have access to this box at all times for drawing and coloring.
Colored Pencils
As our two younger children get older, they have been enjoying using colored pencils. They have a basic set they keep in their pencil case and on occasion I let them use the colored pencils I keep for my own projects.
Drawing Paper
Most of the time our kids use scrap paper left over from when I was a high school teacher. I do make sure we have several drawing pads in the house for when we do more sophisticated projects, make cards for family members, or use water colors, Kwik Stix, or other paints.
Kwik Stix
I love these solid tempera paint sticks. The fact that my kids can uncap them to start painting immediately is fantastic. There is no water needed so I do not have to worry about spillage on the table. They also dry almost instantly so they won't be smudging it on their clothes.
They paint well on paper and wood (we have used them for the wooden masks you can pick up at craft stores).
And if you are concerned about allergies they are nut-, egg-, and gluten-free.
So what crafting items do you always have in your home? Have you found they have changed as your children have gotten older?
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My daughter loved the Kwik Stix, and she was a high schooler when we first got them! She did a large snowman sign on wood with them. She keeps art supplies in her room - markers of all kinds, acrylic paints, canvases (we pick them up when they are on sale), and several different kinds of sketch pads.
ReplyDeleteOur teen keeps his stuff in a bin under his bed. He has not transferred to canvas - he prefers pencil and paper.
Deletekwik sticks are a fun tool to colour with. I do wish they came in a finer size though
ReplyDeleteI think they make thin ones but we only have two sets of the large ones - the ones the size of a small glue stick. My kids love using them.
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