The best gifts and toys for 5-year-olds help expand their world of play while building new skills. See our expert picks for ...

Some coloured pencils are water soluble - water can be brushed over them to blend colours. Water-soluble pencils are usually softer than ordinary coloured pencils and will go blunt more quickly.

I mostly use soft pastel pencils, because the fine tip gives you more control over your drawing and fine detail. However, when you're working big and you need to blend, Prismacolor's pastels are ...

Working with kids can be quite rewarding, but it can also be rather challenging. Having a love for educating children and the patience required to work with them is a good start towards becoming a ...

The pencil “lead” is actually a mixture of graphite and clay. More clay in the mixture makes the lead harder. A harder lead has a higher number. Pencils are numbered from 1-3 but most people use a ...

The differences between people’s personalities can be broken down in terms of five major traits—often called the “Big Five.” Each one reflects a key part of how a person thinks ...

Kids as young as 18 months may be able to ride a balance bike, and many bikes can keep kids happily gliding along until they’re kindergarten ... this is a big deal in terms of safety for new ...

a newer version of the 1st generation Apple Pencil. The big change is that it has a USB-C port, rather than a Lightning connector, and a design closer to that of the Apple Pencil 2 and Pro.

"A girl's promiscuous pictures got spread around the school, the school got the police involved and then got sued for having ...

First things first, its staying power is superb. When I wore this pencil to a bachelorette party in June (a.k.a in peak Manhattan heat), it was the only product on my face that didn’t smudge or ...

Here’s how it works. November 1: Say hello to our new budget big phone pick, the CMF Phone 1! We've updated some formatting all around the page as well to keep things tidy. The best big phones ...