Incorporate inquiry-based practices into the early childhood classroom or family child care home. Inspired by an approach to teaching and learning born in Reggio Emilia, Italy, this book emphasizes investigation anchored by drawing, painting, and other art activities. It provides advice on setting up a studio space for art and inquiry and fifteen studio explorations designed to give children a basic fluency in art. It also offers suggestions for documenting children's developing fluency with art media and its use in inquiry and presents guidelines for using children's newfound fluency as a tool for investigation. This book is divided into two parts and eight chapters. Part One: Studio Explorations, contains: (1) General Guidelines for Studio Explorations; (2) Exploring Textures and Movement; (3) Exploring Color; (4) Three-Dimensional Media; and (5) Representational Drawing and Painting. Part Two, Moving Art from the Studio to the Classroom, contains: (6) Growing a Culture of Inquiry through Art; (7) Using Art Media to Grow Long-Term Investigations; and (8) To See Takes Time: A Long-Term Investigation into the Lives of Leaves.