This is an excellent starter kit for learning the rudiments of Chinese brush painting. Includes a lavishly illustrated 47-page instruction booklet, an 11-1/8" x 8-1/8" pad with (36) practice sheets and a few sheets of xuan, the vellum-like paper that brush-painting artists use, plus 5ml tubes of Chinese watercolors in white, indigo, burnt sienna, carmine and gamboge, a saffron color. Also includes (2) brushes, an ink stone and ink stick, all in a nice boxed set.

No, not a mob problem solver, but a crafty type who doesn’t wait for someone to create the perfect pin-on button. Our Design-a-Button kit comes with (12) 2-1/2” dia buttons. You pop off the back, insert a round card with your message or photo cut to size, snap the back on, and Bob’s your uncle, unless you don’t have an uncle Bob, in which case you’re all set. It’s just an expression. Note to self: Make a “Bob’s Your Uncle” button! For ages 6+.

Sort of like kleenex, because cellophane used to be trademarked but isn’t any longer so you can now say cellophane all you like. Cellophane, cellophane, cellophane. You’ll get (48) sheets of 12” square cellophane, a dozen each in red, yellow, green and blue, for teaching kids color mixing. But feel free to use them for anything. Includes instructions for making your own color paddle.

It's the classic Spirograph®, which is a lot of intricate round mandala-like designs floating around out there. Celebrate with one of our spirographic specials. You pick: the Travel Spirograph® in a flip-lid case with a 2-3/8" ID ring in the lid and (4) assorted wheels, a cross, an oblate spheroid, red and blue pens, a design guide and a 24-sheet pad of  3" square paper or the Deluxe Spirograph® with (19) assorted wheels, (2) rings, an oval rail, oblate spheroid, triangle, red and blue and green pens, a reusable putty to hold the paper, a 14-page design book and a 20-sheet pad of 8-1/2" x 11" paper.

Nothing says friendship more than a bracelet and nothing builds a better bracelet than leather and paracord. Each set includes a pack of (12) always stylish 7/16” x 9/16” x 1-1/8” black buckles that snap together for easy wear and removal. You select: the leather pack, which includes (10) leather cords in traditional leather light-brown, dark-brown or black colors, approximately 42” long; or the paracord pack, which includes a 100-foot spool of 3/32” dia., 275-lb test, UV-, rot- and mildew-resistant, 4-strand paracord, the color or pattern of which our warehouse manager will personally select to match your eyes. Weave, twine and knot to your heart’s content.

Extra-nifty, this 3-D sci-fi cartoon coloring set includes a 36-page pad of cartoons with (3) sets of (12) 7” x 5” sheets. Also comes with a pair of diffraction glasses, so you can see what you’re coloring, and (10) assorted markers, all in a compact book-like carrying case.

Inspiration can strike at any moment, so you best be ready for it with this artist’s sketch set. It contains a handy 9” x 6” double-spiral sketchbook with (50) blank pages between the plain black covers; a sturdy tube of (7) colored pencils; and a pack of (12) pre-sharpened #2 pencils. Easily deployed whenever the desire to draw drives you.

No need to limit the numbers you paint by. These kits all include 8” x 6” canvases, (6) acrylic paint pots, a #2 brush, color key and guide, plus tips for blending colors--a major improvement in the paint-by-numbers game. Packaging is also an easel, and becomes a self-adhesive hanger, which gives you a big leg up on the original artists. You pick: Van Gogh’s Starry Night, Sunflowers or Monet’s The Japanese Footbridge.

Create your own Las Vegas stylized neon masterpiece with this set of painter’s tools. Start with (4) Duro Art brushes in different sizes and add (3) different neon, washable tempera poster paints from an assortment of electric red, fuchsia pink, green apple, orange blast, cerulean blue and bright yellow. Finally, top it off with a 6” x 8” 28-page hardcover blank book to hold your vivid strokes of genius.

Sunprints (or cyanotypes, or photograms) are everyone's favorite photo-sensitivity experiment, from third-graders to graphic artists and fine artists. You pick: The Sunprinters are a dozen 3-15/16" square sheets of photosensitive paper, an acrylic backing sheet and instructions. The large Sunprint Kit has (15) sheets of 12" x 7-3/4" photosensitive paper plus a clear acrylic sheet of the same size. Great for classroom demonstrations, and can be used to make prints from photo negatives as well as interesting effects from opaque or translucent objects. All you add is sunshine and water.

Sometimes things get a little silly here at the AmSci home office. Case in point, the caricatures that Mayra, our cuneiform expert devised of her co-workers in this Mini-Masterpieces Artist’s Notebook. Now you, too, can be the hit of the office party as you create artwork on the (48) pre-printed picture frame-edged pages of this notebook with our 4-color pencils. The (7) pencils all have red, green, blue and yellow in each lead and come in a sturdy tube.