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The Artful Age Editorial Team
Contributor at The Artful Parent
- 427 stories
- Writing since 2021
The Artful Age Editorial Team produces content for parents, caregivers, and educators who want to bring more creativity into their kids' lives. We cover process art, craft tutorials, book lists, and editorial pieces on creative family life. Articles reflect our team's collective editorial process, including testing process art ideas with real kids before recommending them. The Artful Age takes editorial responsibility for content under this byline. For more on how we work, see our editorial policy.
Signature pieces
- + Art Activities For the fourth year in a row, UC Berkeley undergraduate alumni have founded more venture-backed companies than… Sep 21, 2026
- + Art Activities On 25 February 2025, engineers at JPL switched off Voyager 1's cosmic ray subsystem, and on 24 March they shut down… Sep 21, 2026
- + Parent Resources Preschoolers solve mental rotation puzzles using the same holistic strategy as adults, FIU eye-tracking research found Sep 17, 2026
All stories
- Sep 17, 2026 We tend to picture Earth's core as a solid ball of iron, but laboratory experiments squeezing molten iron, silicon and… + Art Activities
- Sep 17, 2026 A 2017 University of Toledo study gave toddlers either sixteen toys or four in a play session, and the children with… + Parent Resources
- Sep 15, 2026 Drexel researchers tracked 1,471 American babies and found those exposed to more television by their second birthday… + Parent Resources
- Sep 15, 2026 A housing lottery randomly offered 4,498 families a way out of high-poverty neighborhoods + Family Life
- Sep 14, 2026 Peggy LeMone started wondering how much a cloud weighs when a friend's dad asked her in junior high, and decades later… + Parent Resources
- Sep 14, 2026 The last time NASA delivered an instrument to Mars designed specifically to detect living microbes was in 1976 + Art Activities
- Sep 14, 2026 Before it went national, Jonas Salk's polio vaccine was tested on 7,500 Pittsburgh schoolchildren, and Salk himself… + Parent Resources
- Sep 14, 2026 Across 11 Western countries, time-use diaries put the average mother's child care at a predicted 54 minutes a day in… + Family Life
- Sep 14, 2026 Eighty-five preschoolers were handed the same toy with four hidden functions, and the ones whose adult said "I'm going… + Family Life