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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.
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- Jul 29, 2026 When a child drags food colouring through shaving cream, the dye stays near the surface long enough to marble paper… + Art Activities
- Jul 28, 2026 At two years old, a child engaged in messy sensory play activates touch, proprioception, smell, and vestibular systems… + Parent Resources
- Jul 28, 2026 Researchers who randomly exposed people to just minutes of pandemic news found it measurably worsened mood and optimism… + Parent Resources
- Jul 27, 2026 Wanting more alone time with age isn't necessarily a sign of withdrawal, according to two studies + Parent Resources
- Jul 27, 2026 When a child paints a wax-crayon drawing with watercolour, the pigment beads and slides off the waxed lines because the… + Painting
- Jul 27, 2026 When a child sprinkles chalk pastel dust across dark paper and smudges it with a fingertip, the soft calcium carbonate… + Painting
- Jul 27, 2026 A meta-analysis of 84 studies found children with difficult temperaments were far more affected, for better and for… + Parent Resources
- Jul 27, 2026 Slow living isn't just a pleasant idea, according to two studies + Parent Resources
- Jul 26, 2026 Researchers who classified thousands of parents into five types found the two that damage children most aren't the two… + The Journal
- Jul 26, 2026 A partner who can't say what they really want takes a real toll on the other person, according to two studies + Parent Resources
- Jul 25, 2026 A study found children who watched an adult tell just one small lie were significantly more likely to cheat on a test… + Parent Resources
- Jul 25, 2026 At eighteen months, a child's brain is forming roughly a million new neural connections every second, and by age three… + Parent Resources