Ever wonder how to make your notes and invitations look old-fashioned and super-classy? Just learn calligraphy, which looks pretty easy with this Spice Box™ Calligraphy set. You'll learn the chancery style and find out some of the history behind this elegant art form. Set includes an instruction book with lots of illustrations, a cartridge pen, (4) ink cartridges, (2) 5 ml tubes of gouache, (1) classic stylus, (1) brush and (1) workbook and practice pad with special punch-out tags, bottle tags and note cards. Now all you need is candle to practice by.

If you’re old enough to remember the original Spirograph®, you might not be young enough to remember the original Spirograph® Animator, which is what we have a bunch of right now. The Animator brings your designs to life. All you do is choose a light effect, and then spin the Animator. Showtime. The cleverly designed turntable will spin for a considerable period of time bringing your designs to life. Set includes (1) Animator with built-in storage compartment; spinner platform and (105)-tooth design ring; (6) design wheels; (5) fine-line design pens; a (100)-sheet pad of 3” x 3” stick-down design paper, and a design idea and instruction guide. Requires (3) “AAA” batteries. Ages 8+.

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; Irises; Monet’s The Japanese Footbridge or Water Lillies.

Painters need paints, right? This set of (24) acrylic paints from Zenacolor® includes cobalt blue, French ultramarine, Prussian blue, cerulean blue, crimson red, scarlet red, vermillion, orange, beige, ocher, primary yellow, lemon yellow, Titanium white, lamp black, gray, raw umber, burnt umber, raw sienna, burnt sienna, violet, hooker's green (hey, we don’t name the colors), veridian green, sap green and emerald green. Tubes are 12ml each, and come in a nice 9” x 7-1/2” storage box.

You will take a look, you will color this book. We have (3) Dr. Seuss™ coloring and activity books, each 8-1/2” x 11” and based on one of the good doctor’s classics: ABC, Horton Hears A Who!, and One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish. We will reach in the bin and grab one that works best for you. (Because we know what's best) All made in the USA.

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.

Heat-sensitive duct tape changes color and gets lighter the more heat is applied, as from sunlight or your paws. Why, you ask? Billy, our social media guru, says if you ask why, you don't deserve it. Just accept that it's cooler than all of the other duct tape, especially if you make a prom dress or tux out of it. And yes, if you had a broken chameleon you could try fixing it with this, but don't tell anyone we said so. Tape is 1-7/8" wide and 30 feet long.

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.

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.

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.