Infants play with colorful stacking and nesting cups, toddlers explore toy clocks and dropper art, preschoolers use magnet kits, toolboxes, and toy cars, and kindergarteners even begin learning ...

“Study of the Giraffe Given to Charles X by the Viceroy of Egypt” (1827), watercolor (via Wikimedia) In a series for the first day of each month, Hyperallergic is exploring some firsts in art ...