In 2009, I wrote a post about becoming a more eco-friendly artist and shared the links to some of my favorite sites who are liked minded in my desire to be more environmentally friendly. Instead of doing a rehash of the previous post, because I still like the companies I shared, I decided to do one for children.
All of my children enjoy making crafts, drawing and doing art. In my search for amazing products, I came across a few I absolutely love:
Glob Natural Paints – My middle child LOVES to paint. Honestly, the girl paints more than I do and we never seem to have enough of it in our home. I was excited to find a collection of botanically crafted eco-art supplies. They have natural bamboo brushes, painting kits, collage kits and even plantable collage kits. I also like that everything is reasonably priced.
ClementineArt – The packaging alone thrills me. I love a simple clean design that shows off the product. ClementineArt supplies are available for purchase from Whole Foods and they pride themselves on making “open-ended materials that encourage children to create real art (from their website)”. I like the modeling clay, crayon rocks and the natural paint, of course.
eco-kids – This company has a wonderful supply of non-toxic supplies made from natural ingredients. Favorites I found here are the eco-crayons (they look like rocks), the rolling pins (seriously, you can’t do clay work without one of these) and and the eco-finger paint.
Colored Smencils – I already love their #2 pencils and seeing colored pencils makes me happy. These pencils are made from newspaper, shaped, dried, then dunked in their liquid scents. Sounds and smells lovely.
This is just a small list, but at least it will get you started in finding some great art supplies for your kids and helping to preserve our environment.
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