Creating your tinkerlab. Tips for clearing children's clutter / Jillian Maxim -- What nursery schools can teach us about creative invitations: An interview with Nancy Howe -- Tools for tinkering -- Ten tinkerlab habits of mind -- Design. Oh no, that's not creative! / Jessica Hoffmann Davis -- Circle games -- Peel and stick -- Glue, glue, glue -- Mark outside the box -- Watercolor exploration -- Yes, you can paint on that! -- Monoprints -- Bubble prints -- Drawing games -- Draw what you see -- Art dice -- Paint experiments -- Paste paper -- Ten lessons the arts teach / Elliot Eisner -- Marbleized paper with paint and oil -- Plexiglas painting -- Foam plate relief prints -- Collage painting -- Finding your five-year-old self in the art museum / Margie Maynard -- The value of loose parts: An interview with Susan Harris MacKay -- Gumdrop structures -- hanging structures -- Straw rockets -- Marble runs: Ramps and gravity -- Paper houses -- Scrap building -- Ropes and pulleys -- CD spinner -- Does it float? -- Pounding nails -- Take things apart -- Drawing machine -- DIY robot -- DIY kids: Building tomorrow's innovators through hands-on making / Grace Hawthorne -- Yes, and... How to improvise with children: An interview with Dan Klein -- Potion station -- Goop -- Marker explosions -- Make your own (semiedible) paint -- Slime -- Ice and salt exploration -- Ice cream in a jar: An edible investigation -- Frozen carbon dioxide -- Yeast and sugar expansion -- Naked egg experiment -- Homemade butter: An edible investigation -- Lemon invisible ink -- Glittery egg geodes -- Natural dyes -- Kitchen challenge: An edible investigation -- Concoctions in a Michelin-Starred kitchen: An interview with Bruno Chemel -- How to set up a discovery area: An interview with Parul Chandra. Playdough building -- Cloud dough -- Pounding flowers -- Scavenger hunts -- DIY light box -- Photograms -- Ephemeral installation -- Shadow investigations -- DIY lava lamp -- Mystery bag -- The benefits of basic materials / Jennifer Winters.