Must-have art supplies for the home studio: EARLY CHILDHOOD
How can families encourage the youngest artists to explore and create at home?
The key themes for early childhood artists are sensory and material exploration.
Here are some recommended basic supplies for early childhood artists.
Masking tape
Construction and watercolor paper
Pipettes, spray bottles, and bowls of various sizes
Large brushes
Kitchen utensils — seriously!
Large trays or cooking sheets (for paint and sorting)
Sortable and stackable materials like blocks
Glue sticks or liquid glue
Clay (air dry and non-drying) and play-doh
Tempera (finger paint) and watercolor paints
Encourage your artists to experiment with what might happen if they:
Let their paint drip and move around a tray, paper, or canvas?
Sort their blocks by color and shape?
Rip, fold, crumple, and glue their collage materials?
Stick different size pieces of tape everywhere (masking tape comes off easily)?
And more!
Limit their choices to support creativity:
Put out one tool at a time
Pour one or two colors of paint at a time
Explore one type of mark at a time
