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Black line Drawing: Where do I start?
Practice
Publications and Tools

Black line Drawing: Where do I start?

Exploring Paper

Exploring Paper

Asking Unanswerable Questions
Playful Inquiry

Asking Unanswerable Questions

FROM THE OPAL ARCHIVE: This tool comes from the Inspiring Inventiveness collection of Principles, Practices, and Tools developed by Opal School teacher researchers in collaboration…Read More.
Family Explore: Texture
Playful Inquiry
Tools and Publications

Family Explore: Texture

FAMILY EXPLORE ​Family Explore was created as a suite of resources to support adults in guiding children/ students through an inquiry experience. Offering questions to…Read More.
First Experience with Tempera Paint
Environments and Materials

First Experience with Tempera Paint

First Experience with Tempera Paint (excerpt from The Field Guide, Chp. 3) written by Melinda Hayward, former Prescott Teaching Preschool teacher and Carolyn Potts, Studio…Read More.
Suggested Classroom Materials List
Environments and Materials
Tools and Publications

Suggested Classroom Materials List

We often go into schools and conduct workshops where people ask us where we get all of the interesting art materials we use. We’ve prepared…Read More.
Using Potter’s Clay with Young Children
Environments and Materials

Using Potter’s Clay with Young Children

  For young children the sensory world is a source of satisfaction, and imagination is the source of exploratory delight. And, it is these inclinations…Read More.