Clementine Art Gift Set.

• Author: Peterson, Eric
• Position: [small biz] COLORADO COOL STUFF - Brief article

After Diana Mercer started Clementine Studio in Boulder in 2003 to teach kids arts and crafts skills, she found herself continually confronted with a situation.

"I'd look over, and a baby would have a paintbrush in their mouth like a lollipop," Mercer says. "Parents would look at me and ask, 'Is this OK?'"

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To be sure that it was indeed OK, Mercer started making paints and dough from natural ingredients for her studio, then launched Clementine Art with six products in 2008. The Clementine Art Gift Set includes all six: soy-wax crayons and crayon rocks, markers, modeling dough, paints and wheat-based glue.

The concept promptly took off...