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Art Dad's Young Artist Favorites
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items Most art supplies for kids are cheap and the quailty reflects that. If you have a young aspireing artist these are some of my favorites to share the love of creativity.
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Painting
These are perfect for the budding artist who wants to feel like their favorite grown up artist. Budget friendly but feel premium to younger artists. And framing and hanging one of these on your walls instead of a piece of paper on your fridge will me...
Blick Studio Cotton Canvas Panels and Packs
Synthetic brushes are the way to go for young artists. They can take a relative beating and can be easily maintained with little effort.
Liquitex Basics Synthetic Brushes and Sets
Blick's own line of acrylics are great for young artists. The price for entry is great for the quality of paint you get for them. They feel premium enough so your little artist will feel like they are using a more luxury product like Golden acrylics....
Blickrylic Student Acrylic Paints and Sets
These are just like the bigger purpose made paint puck water cup but these little ones can be added to any cup to help your little ones clean their brushes. They suction on to just about any cup.
Paint Puck Mini Brush Cleaner For Oil Painting
These are a great alternative to those kids watercolor palettes that get disgusting and the colors mix in all of the mini pads of paint. You get the familiarity of crayons but with a bit of water you can get some great watercolor effects.
FaberCastell Watercolor Crayon Set
Mixing paint is a great way to introduce how colors work and while the mess can be applied to the canvas having a palette that they can mix on is great. Even better is that you can just rip off the used sheet and throw it out after use.
Blick Studio Disposable Palette Pads
Drawing
Acrylic markers are an easy paint applicator for young artists and Sharpie made them a bit more affordable compared to high end brands like Posca.
Sharpie Creative Acrylic Marker Sets
Crayola are great crayons for a reason. I really love the Twistables line purely because you get the same amount of crayon but without the annoying paper that kids love to peel off and scatter to the winds of the house.
Crayola Twistable Mini Crayon Sets
Once your artist outgrows crayons, colored pencils are a great next step. While Crayola has a range of colored pencils, they quality is not as good as their crayons. Faber-Castell is a great quality for young artists and the ergonomic design with add...
FaberCastell Grip Colored EcoPencil Sets
If you have a little one who is just learning how to use scissors these are great. The spring assisted mechanism is easily engaged for assisted cutting and can be move away for when your little artist is ready to cut on their own.
Armada Spring Action Scissors
Storage
There are cheaper options other then ArtBin, but the construction of their products is the best. I personally use these for my own art supplies and my kid has one of his own. As a parent, having one thing to pull out that has all of their supplies fo...
ArtBin Essentials Boxes
Your fridge can only handle so much art before it looks like a mess. These frames allow you to not only showcase your kids art but also store the older pieces behind the current. We currently have two of these hung in our dining room with the rest of...
Kids Art Frames, 9.5 x 13 Front Opening Kids Artwork Frames Black Artwork Display Storage Frame for Wall
Miscellaneous
Are these necessary for your little artists projects? No. Are you going to have fun with these as you take them out into the world and put eyes on everything? Yes.
Creativity Street Peel and Stick Wiggle Eyes
Not everyone has the space to keep a full easel for their little artist. This table top version can fold down for easy storage. Has a chalk and dry erase side. Can hold a canvas panel for your artist. And the drawing surface can detach so they can ta...
Kids Tabletop Easel