: Jovi

The kit Spanish primary schools order by the box.

Jovi has been making children's art materials in Barcelona since 1880 — modelling clay, felt-tip pens, chalks, crayons, paints, the lot. Soft, hard-wearing, properly pigmented, vegetable-based where it matters. The standard kit in classrooms across Europe and a long way from the supermarket five-for-a-pound competition.

Plastilina that never dries out, felt-tips that survive being chewed, jumbo street chalks that wash off in the rain. Ages 2 to teenager. Pop into Callender Street or order online.