Mini Casa made this casa to celebrate TinkerLab. TinkerLab didn't make it and isn't affiliated with Mini Casa.
TinkerLab is a blog of hands-on projects and creative play ideas for young children.
Open-ended creative and science activities that families can try.
A piece for adults who guide children's art, arguing that step-by-step instructions teach kids to follow rather than create, with alternative phrasing to use instead.
Visit linkA beginner guide to art journaling covering choosing a journal, supplies, step-by-step techniques and prompts, with a downloadable starter kit of a supplies list and prompt cards.
Visit linkTinkerLab's projects are built from household materials: bubble paint, edible homemade paint, paint made from kitchen ingredients, sun prints, a magic potion lab set-up, and stencil art made from old book pages. Ideas such as abstract compositions made through a viewfinder from a photo, or a short triangle exercise, give children a starting structure without a finished picture to copy. A recurring thread is the morning art routine and spiral doodling, which turns repetition into practice.
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