Kağıt vs. the magazine first came out in 2006: an arts and crafts magazine for children and preschool teachers, six issues a year, distributed across all of Turkey. It ran for ten years, 55 issues in total, and we made every part of it in-house.
The magazine grew arms and legs. In 2008 we opened a summer children's workshop in Alaçatı, and in 2010 a workshop and craft shop in Istanbul.
Under the Kağıt vs. name, we also ran regular children's workshops in Istanbul and İzmir for years. Our longest-running collaborations were with IKEA, Optimum, and Kozy AVM, though we held workshops at other shopping centres too.
We created more than 500 arts and crafts projects and pieces of children's content for global brands including UHU, Stabilo, Faber-Castell, BIC, FIMO, and Sculpey. I worked alongside kindergartens, preschool classrooms, and preschool teachers for years. Together we explored how creative work could fit naturally into a classroom, support practical skills, and keep children engaged without making the activity feel like another lesson.
We traveled across Turkey to meet and train preschool teachers, and produced content for classroom use, websites, and social media. If you were a preschool teacher in Turkey in those years, there is a good chance something I helped make passed through your hands.
