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    Exploring Light & Colour – An Artful Kids Etsy Gift Guide

    It’s that time of year again, and I’ve been doing lots of window shopping for inspirational artful gifts on Etsy. For this guide I thought I would focus on creative gifts that help the recipient to explore light and colour – some of the building blocks of art. I have included gifts for both kids and the ‘Young at Art’ because you’re never too old to explore! Prisms are a wonderful way of exploring light, and this artist produces a range of them which can be used creatively. Click on the image to find out more. The artist has a variety of other unusual and inspiring products exploring light and…

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    A Few of my Favourite Things…

    I love to do a bit of window shopping on Etsy so for this post I thought would share a few of my recent ‘Finds’. My desire to ‘curate’ items is strong, so all of these have a creative ‘theme’. In order to cater for all budgets, I have tried to cover a range of price points – some are more expensive luxuries to treat yourself or a loved one, while others fall more into the category of an impulse buy. Click the image to view the item on Etsy and find out more. Disclosure: this is a sponsored post, and the products selected are affiliate linked, so I will…

  • Christmas,  shopping

    Artful Advent Ideas

    It has been a long time since I’ve managed to post anything on here. There are lots of personal reasons for this, which I won’t go into here, but with it already approaching the festive season, I thought it was about time added some new, and hopefully useful content. For the last couple of years I have been trying to find the time to establish a proper directory of resources on Artful Kids – it has been something of a stop-start project, but hopefully it is now, finally, starting to take shape. It is a combination of resources already on this site, external resources elsewhere which are free of charge,…