This tip courtesy of ideal bite :

Is your kid the next Picasso?

The Bite
Just maybe. Let your budding artiste make masterpieces with non-toxic supplies like veggie-based paint for art that screams like Munch, but smells like Monet’s garden.

The Benefits

• A safer family. Many standard art supplies emit asthma-inducing chems; pick ones that don’t contain ammonia, formaldehyde, or turpentine, especially since supplies can end up in kids’ mouths.
• Inspired kids. Whether or not your kid’s a natural, natural art supplies will get their creative juices flowing.
• A healthier world. 36 billion lbs of toxic acrylic polymer solvents, found in many traditional art supplies, are produced each year.

Wanna Try?

• Nuno Vegetable Paint - 12 colors made from plant and flower extracts ($22).
• Stockmar Modeling Beeswax - great alternative to polymer clay, which contains polyvinyl chloride ($14).
• Prang Soybean Crayons - 64 bright colors that don’t have a petroleum base ($6).
• Budget Art Kids Paint A Poster Books - veggie-pigment paint-by-numbers series with dinosaurs, sprites, and faeries ($5).
• Budget Art Materials - wide selection of non-toxic art supplies.
• Children’s Health Environmental Coalition - explains how to read the tricky labels on the backs of art supplies containers.

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