Get your homeschooling art supplies organized with our essential list for early years education.
"Through art, children learn to communicate visually, enhancing their ability to convey thoughts, feelings, and ideas."
Below find links to our tried and true resources - no affiliation just highly recommend!
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- Colouring Pencils - a necessary splurge after countless cheaper pencils purchased and ongoing breakages and poor colours we switched to these! used daily in our homeschooling
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- Small Pencils - Great for little hands, a more proportion handwriting pencils
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- Large Pencils - Triangular for ergonomic grip the recommended pencil by most Schools.
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- Water Colours - Bright colours and easy cleanup, a daily use item in our homeschooling
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- Textas - Affordable and bright graphic markers
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- Pastels - Messy and fun art medium
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- Paint Brushes - Durable and high quality
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- Sharpener
- We have this one as recommended for use with Lyra pencils
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- Eraser - These ones are great and cheap
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- Stickytape -always handy to have
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- Ruler - We love the wooden ones for littles
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- A5 Notebooks - daily workbooks for handwriting, taking notes, nature journal, art. Great size for littles to use.
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-Scrapbooks Cheap way for storing worksheets and art.
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- Workbooks - Handwriting, colouring, drawing - great seasonal workbook for kids!
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- Plain Copy Paper - Printing worksheets, workbooks, colouring pages, budget friendly
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- Canvas Paper - Great for art projects and watercolours, pastels, and paints
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- Glue Sticks - We love purple or blue
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- Laminator - Simple and great for flashcards, posters, or crafts
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- Printer - We use this one and LOVE it. Higher cost purchase but cheaper ink refill. I have printed 1000s of sheets of coloured workbooks and have made the slightest dent in our ink stocks.
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- Book binder - Not a necessity but a great addition to have.
This list will be updated as we find and use art supplies of value - when you find an item that is a necessity in your daily learning share it with us!