With 52 weeks of fantastic art projects using easytofind, everyday materials, Art with Anything provides a year of creativity, imagination, and fun for children ages 410! Organized alphabetically by material, each week features one everyday material (address labels, fabric scraps, leaves, rocks) and provides five days of unique activities, increasing in complexity with each day.Art with Anything uses materials like buttons, cardboard, holepunch dots, junk mail, masking tape, sandpaper, and salt, which encourages recycling and reusing! Children will love making "Glitter Photo Jars" or working on "ShakeItUpBag Paintings," and projects like "Family Finger Puppets" and "FluffNPuff Mobiles" will keep them entertained for hours and stretch their imaginations. Whether at home or at school, in child care or an afterschool program, exploring the process of creating art is one of the most compelling ways children learn, and Art with Anything keeps children learning creatively all year long!

While the visual and performing arts are powerful curricular companions to early STEM experiences, educators may not have the tools and resources to introduce art beyond painting and drawing.Creative Investigations in Early Art provides them with an inquisitive, explorative approach to boost young learners' creativity and criticalthinking, communication, and problemsolving skills through artistic expression. Each chapter provides educators with practical ideas for intentionally fostering young children's handson, mindson explorations connecting the following areas of the creative arts to STEM: Music and Movement Dramatic Arts Visual Arts Artists and Artworks