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Art Gift Ideas

Gifts for Pre-schoolers
  • Container of crayons
  • Container of washable markers
  • Sidewalk chalk
  • Elmer's Crayon Sticks - look like a glue stick, but draw like a crayon
  • "Play-Doh" and the many tools used with it
Gifts for Elementary Children
  • New box of crayons - set of 64 with the sharpener
  • Packages of white copy paper for endless hours of drawing
  • Art box to hold materials - simple tool box or tackle box will do
  • Sketch pads and sketch books
  • The deluxe set of Crayola color pencils - 72 count box
  • Acrylic paint-by-number sets
  • Dark paper and colored gel pens
Gifts for the Serious Artist
  • "Real" drawing pencils (2B, B, 2H, H, etc.)
  • "Real" art erasers (kneaded, gum, etc.)
  • Electric pencil sharpener
  • Prismacolor color pencil set (sets of 12, 24, 48, etc available)
  • Blank journals with a colorful set of fine point markers
  • Acrylic paints, canvas boards and brushes
  • Portable easel
  • Portfolio
  • Drawing board

"If you can draw, even a little bit, you can express all kinds of ideas that might otherwise be lost – delights, frustrations, whatever torments you or pleases you."


David Hockney, British Artist

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