Implementation of Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) into the Camelot Intermediate School curriculum in Brookings, South Dakota, has fostered the development of creative and critical thinking skills in 4th- and 5th-grade students. Making meaning together by observing carefully, deciphering patterns, speculating, clarifying, supporting opinions, and generating more ideas--these skills are learned patterns of thinking. Camelot teachers nurture these student behaviors by facilitating monthly art discussions. The staff originally chose Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) to improve student writing. Now they recognize that, in addition to strengthening students' communication skills, VTS generates critical-thinking skills, including creativity. This article describes how the teachers at Camelot implemented the VTS approach and the challenges and success that they experienced as a result.