General guidelines for studio explorations -- Exploring textures and movement -- Cornstarch and water -- Fingerpaint -- Easel paint -- Exploring color -- Black and white paints -- Tempera paints -- Watercolor pains -- Oil pastels and chalk pastels -- Three dimensional media -- First steps into clay: stage one -- First steps into clay: stage two -- Further steps into clay -- Found materials and loose parts -- Wire -- Representational drawing and painting -- Still life portraits -- Self portraits -- Murals -- Growing a culture of inquiry through art -- Using art media to grow long-term investigations -- To see takes time: a long term investigation into the lives of leaves.