Learn about art! Visit
Museums! Learn about cultures
Interactive sites to make Art! Galleries!
Other fun sites to
see!
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A.
Pintura : Art Detective You can be an art detective! See if you
can find Grandpa's Painting. Art history disguised as a mystery!
Art
Tales: Telling Stories Discover the world of wildlife art. Write a
story....curate you own museum....have some fun with this site! From
the National Museum of Wildlife Art - See
other fun things
to do.
Erwin
E Smith for Kids! - and Interactive Web site for children to learn
about the cowboy photographer, Erwin E. Smith. The Amon Carter
Museum, Fort Worth, Texas.
Inside
Art
Explore a painting as an art historian would. This interactive Web
site takes you on an adventure into a painting. You will be asked
to answer some key questions so that you can return to the
museum and begin your adventure again.
You will love this one!
Kids
Art Masters' Gallery KidsArt is proud to provide the
Masters' Gallery segments for the popular PBS Television drawing show,
Mark Kistler's Imagination Station. Click the Masters' Gallery links
below to see and read about the famous artwork.
Sanford-
Study Art
Studying the Elements and Principles
of Art- Explore the World of Art! Learn about art
history. See the Timeline
for a quick overview of Art History. Check out all of the artists
listed - with brief biography - very kid oriented. [TOP OF PAGE]
Sanford
Art-Edventures
Hands-on
activities, games. Timeline, definitions, artists and art styles
Here is just a sample of the fun on this Sanford site:
Carmine's
Introduction to Color Color
Theory vs Dr. Gray! Carmine's
Introduction to Portraits Face
2 Face Portraits from the Past
Sanford
- Carmine's Landscape Adventure Join Carmine Chameleon and explore
paintings to learn about mood, depth, time of day and weather in
landscapes. Create your own landscapes, too! (2nd or 3rd grade and up)
Sanford
ArtEdventures
- Go West
Young Artist Pack your supplies and portfolio and venture west.
Try the new rail road - just recently completed.
Meet the master
western landscape artists along the way.
Sanford
ArtEdventures - Creating
an action figures
Sanford
ArtEdventures - From Cave Art to Your Art. "Meet"
various contemporary artists. View video clips and make a video of
your own.
Sanford
ArtEdventures: Leonardo's Workshop Someone
has changed history! You must travel back in time to the Renaissance
and explore Leonardo da Vinci's workshop in search of clues. Examine
Leonardo's art and inventions and discover the spirit of the
Renaissance while solving this interactive mystery.
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Albright-Knox
Artgames Art appreciation games
and activities to make art online. Lots of fun. You will want to try
them all.
Art
Detective: The Case of the Mysterious Object A close examination
of one of the works in the collection. Choose a questions - solve the
clues. See more for
kids from Tate Museum.
Art Institute of
Chicago: Art Access - for older students.
Artist's
Toolkit - Minneapolis Institute of Arts Fun interactive - sound
effects, too. Learn all about the elements and principles (art
vocabulary - perspective drawing) in fun ways using works of art from
the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Make you own art, too. Great fun on
a rainy day!
Art
Safari
Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art
Explore the theme of animals in art through
the work in the Museum of
Modern Art. Take a “journey”—and
adventure in looking at art.
Arts
Workshop Children's
Museum, Indianapolis Puppets, sculpture and more! Arts' Workshop.
Fun activities to make at home. Fun online
activities! Science
stuff! Check it all out. See Focus
on...Sculpture - introducing
what sculptors do and what they create with.
British
Museum of Art - Arabesque - Mobiles - explore a selection of
simplified Middle Eastern designs, patterns and motifs and assemble
them into a mobile changing size and selecting colors - then watch
your mobile spin.
Chicago
Children's Museum Click
on the hands or names to learn more about some of the neat stuff
you'll find at Chicago Children's Museum. Click on the PLAY ME boxes
for fun games and surprises.
Children's
Museum of Indianapolis - Firework of Glass installation by Dale
Chihuly. See the activities for children online - click on Games (2
different levels). Look for more games on line (click Kids)
Cleveland
Museum of Art - Fun for Kids Online Let "Rosetta Stone"
be your guide through these fun activities Sahara
the Scarab- learn all about Egyptian animals. Explore
the Armor Court Make
an Armor Helmet
More fun activities
for kids!
Destination
Modern Art - Blast off to the Museum of Modern Art in Queens.
Activities are all designed for elementary (ages 5 to 8). Even older
students will enjoy this quick overview of some of our favorite
artists (Van Gogh, Bearden, Kahlo - more). Travel on to P.S. 1 (former
school converted to gallery for contemporary art).
Discover
Art - Creatures at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
Learn about various works in the collections and about the people who
made them. Create your own creature.
Exploratorium:
Seeing On this site you can find information ABOUT
the collection, a selection of online EXHIBITS
illustrating visual phenomena, a set of pages exploring novel and
thought-provoking IDEAS
about seeing, and many LINKS
to other sites.
Getty
Games - Fun interactive art games from the Getty. Play the Detail
Detective, Matching Game, Switch (find five changes), and
Puzzles...using favorites from the Getty collection. Detail Detective
and Switch are both timed games. Try them all and see how you do.
Kids
Art Top Ten Museums Visit an art museum on the Internet. KidsArt
brings you links to our favorite children's web presentations from
museums around the U.S. Here is a challenge for you - see if you can
find a web site for each of the Top
Ten artists listed.
Matisse
for Kids at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Fun interactive site
where you learn about Matisse's paintings and then collect patterns
and objects to make your own Matisse style work of art. Sign and print
your work.
Meet
Me At Midnight - Interactive site from Smithsonian American Art
Museum. Designed to teach middle school students about some works in
the collection.
Museum
of Web Art - Children's Wing
Lots of fun Java script activities to keep the little ones busy. My
favorite one was the multi-colored millipede--Blue Heaven was lots of
fun, too!
My
Imaginary City - from Tate Kids, UK. Choose a background, then
select buildings and scenery for your city. Add some color - have some
fun!
National
Gallery of Art Adventures in
art--activities and projects plus an animated
musical adventure through the sculpture garden - Lizzy and Gordon visit
the Sculpture Garden. Check out Kid
Zone- Fun interactive - Greek
God Arcade - Mobiles -
Collage
Machine - 3-D
Twirler - Paint
Box and more! See the new Jungle
interactive - create your own Rousseau style jungle.
National
Museum of American Art - Bottlecaps to Brushes Cappy (character
based on a giraffe decorated with bottle caps) introduces kids to works
in the gallery.
National
Museum Liverpool - Portrait Interactive
Lots to learn here - Try it! You will have fun testing your knowledge
of how to read a painting.
National
Museum of Wildlife Art. in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Check out these
fun online activities using the collection. Museum
home page.
New
Britain Museum of American Art - Just Kids page. Puzzles, paint a
work of art, ABC's of art, coloring pages.
Portrait
Detectives from East Liverpool Museums - The Walker (alternate
ULR). Learn how to look for clues as to who the person is, how they
lived and more. More interactive
exhibits using the collections of Liverpool Museums.
Red
Studio for teenagers. Developed
by MoMA in collaboration with high school students, Red Studio features
Good Guys Wear Black, an interview with artist/architect Vito Acconci,
and you DESIGN, a design contest for teens.
SmART
Kids - from the Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago.
Designed for students ages 7-12 to discover ways to look at, think
about, and respond creatively to art. Four major sections - Look and
Share, Art Detective, Art Speak and Artist Studio.
Smithsonian
for Kids - Explore the playful
side of the Smithsonian Museums. There are highlights of different
areas and fun on-line stuff for kids and kids at heart. Fun activities
- like Make a Sculpture
Wacky
Kids
- Fascinating and
"wacky" website for kids launched by the
Denver Art
Museum.
Creative art projects and much more will keep kids
aged 8-10
busy for
hours.
One of the first websites ever produced by an art museum that
features a
variety of printout
activities for kids. The
"wac" in wacky stands for World
Art
and Cultures, and it is the
place for kids to explore art from around the
world. Four
areas can be investigated
which correspond with the D. A. M.'s own collection."
Fun
and Fancy Chairs
Web Museum Art History Time Line [TOP OF PAGE]
A virtual time line of art and art history lets you explore art and drawings from around the world, from Gothic European to
contemporary Japanese artworks. Choose a time period and read about the art and artists from that time. Then click on an artist
to view the artworks created by them. After investigating some of the different periods, choose two artists who created art
from different periods and compare their works. This is good for
upper elementary and above. http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/tl/
Whyville.net
- Educational site for students from Getty. New Art Games! A virtual
kids' world where games, chat, and community make learning fun. Whyville
is dedicated to learning through exploration and communication. Registration
is free, so go ahead and click the JOIN NOW island!
A
Brush with Wildlife Create a composition
with Carl Rungius. Introduce yourself to the animated principles of
art, then create your own composition and submit it to the Critique
Gallery for review! See other fun
things to do at the National Museum of Wildlife Art.
AccessArt
-- Collection on online activities for students and teacher - all
ages. Students will find AccessArt a fun, creative and dynamic learning tool
across all Key Stages. Choose by theme or age group. Ideas adaptable
to many grade levels.
ArtPad
is a very cool flash-based paint program from art.com. Have fun
creating art!
ART-wow.com
Learn to draw tutorials, crafts, art glossary and more.
BBC's
- CBeebies Printables - fun activities for kids. thinks to make -
coloring - paint online - doodle fun and more.
Cartoonster.kidzdom.com
- Animation Tutorials for the Cool Kidz by 17 year old Andrew Fei,
Australia. Fun and interactive online tutorials which teach children
and young people to draw and animate. See also Kidzdom
- a fun website by Andrew Fei. The site includes a series of animated
cartoons, colouring exercises for young children, as well as an
excellent animation tutorial showing others how they can produce their
own animation.
Children's
Art Activity Books | Bright Ring Publishing | MaryAnn Kohl | Art
Projects for Kids
Chunky
Monkey- drawing lessons Learn to
draw animals, plants and insects of the rain forest.
Collage Machine
Presented with a blank work screen, visitors can peruse the collection of objects,
colors and shapes offered and
then drag them onto their workspace. After doing so, the images can be manipulated in a variety
of ways. Get ready for hours of fun! Try the Auto selection, too, and see what
pops up. All "kid safe" images.
Colour
(Color) Factory - fun interactive site from the BBC for kids. Learn
about the color wheel and how to mix colors to create new ones
(traditional Red-Yellow- Blue as primary colors)
Color Internet Movie
Machine (16 color) Create your own animations.
Crayola
Kids Cute site for
elementary children--Lots of on-line activities.
If you like
coloring--check these print
and color pages.
DLTK's
Crafts for Kids It is filled with tons of printable crafts
including templates, party invitations, printable cards for all occasions, and printable coloring pages galore!
Drawtoy
- a fun drawing "toy" from Ze Frank. Use the animated tools
and make your drawing spring to life.
Etch-a-sketch-
Online A touch of
nostalgia for mom and dad, too. Etched
in Time Art by George Vlosich of sports legends and great athletes
such as: Michael Jordan, Cal Ripken, Muhammed Ali and others. Java
Sketch - Like "Etch a sketch"—must be able to do Java
Hands
on Crafts Come on and play! Get
"dirty" with clay! - make a face jug
and more ... OR.....Visit the fiber
studio. Joint project between the Mint Museum of and the Public
Library of Charlotte. Clay
Interactive site - lots of fun. Learn how
to throw a pot on the wheel, make a coil pot, or decorate a face pot.
Need Shockwave. Slow to load, but worth the wait. Online studio for
kids to play around with North Carolina crafts.
Fun
and Games for Thinking Students Art Attack, Brain Twisters,
Math and Science activities, Simulations and Sound....Lots to do! Page
created by Alix Peshette, R.W. Emerson Jr. High computer science
teacher.
Haring
Kids Interactive coloring
book, online activities art and more.
Imagination
at Work Fun site that lets you draw on line save and send to a
friend. Allows you to select marker color and paper color. Draw to
your heart's content! Fun for all ages. Adults will love it too. (site
was down last I checked)
Jackson
Pollock Click
and drag the mouse to splash paint your computer screen. Click mouse
to change colors and splash paint. Site by Miltos Manetas.
Kaboose.com--
games-- painting Check out all of the activities
on this site. some fun things for pre-schoolers and above- has
some cool sound effects, too.....but watch out for those pop-up ads.
Kids
Paint on Line Select a
color--click the mouse and draw. Select a
different color and draw
some more. Try to make a picture just with dots --
like Georges Seurat
or like an Aboriginal dot painting.
Kidzdraw
Pick your age group- then select from the list of fun things to do.
Learn
to Draw
with Billy Bear Grab your pencils
(black & colors) and paper... or your computer mouse and favorite
graphic program and draw with Billy Bear! Learn to take BASIC
SHAPES... and turn them into something beautiful!
Making
Friends-Crafts for Kids At
Making Friends you'll find lots of creative activities for kids ages 2
through 15.
Mandala
Maker From Girls Go Tech - Girl Scouts. Read about the Mandala
then create your own
mandala. To save your mandala to file, click Print Screen - then
paste into new file in your photo editing software. Crop the image
down to five inch square. You can use lasso tool to cut out the
remaining label in corner.
Mark
Kistler's Imagination Station!
The most popular learn to draw in 3-D site on the planet. Be
sure to visit the student art gallery!
National
Geographic for Kids Make you own cartoon. Lots of activities and
experiments. I have this site listed below to---but didn't want you to
miss it. It is a good one!
ProtoZone
Interactives - Pattern makers - 3-D Constructions - Art Machines -
Games. Software by Al Jarnow. Need Shockwave to view.
Recipes
Just Kids Recipes for Crafts.
Scribbles
Kids Art.com
Scribbles is a place for children of all ages who love to create art.
Here you can learn about different Artists
and their artwork. Children can do a simple Art
Project. (site was down last I checked)
Switch
Zoo Switch the animals' heads, legs, and
tails to make new creatures
at this surrealistic virtual zoo. Thousands of combinations are
possible!
New animals monthly.
Tappi
Paper
University Where
students and teachers explore the world of paper. History
of paper. How
is paper made? Making
paper by hand.
The
Toymaker.com You
will love the little boxes. Print off one or two for a special gift
-- give with promises inside or a special treasure. Make the mini theater
or toy box, too. Have some fun!
YouDraw
For children and adults. The aim of this website is to show what 6
billion people look like by producing 12,000 copies of a book of
500,000 human figures drawn by visitors to the site. Help the creators
of YouDraw achieve their goal by
using the interactive drawing pad available on the site.
For more
arts and crafts for kids - check our Crafts Page
Artsonia
Online Children's Art Museum View
other students' artwork from around the world. An educational website
dedicated to uniting students through art. See
all of the schools participating. See all
of the countries participating.
Creative
Art Spaces for Kids - Long Island. See Altered
books with featured artist Karen
Michel. See the Gallery
of children's work! CASK, the
Creative Art Space for Kids Foundation, is a nonprofit, tax
exempt arts education program for children and adolescents that
develops self expression and confidence through the arts. Get
something like this going in your community!
Global
Children's Art Gallery -The Natural Child Project Work of children
that is done without teacher supervision - created through the child's
own initiative.
International
Child Art Foundation. See art from children around the world. Founded in 1997-- the International Child Art
Foundation
has encouraged children to lead us into a better world.
History
for Kids Europe, Asia and Africa before 1500 AD. Take a trip back
in time.
Kid
Pub More than 40,000 stories written by kids from all over the
planet!
Kids
Art :
Worldwide Art Gallery
The Worldwide Kids' Art Gallery celebrates the boundless expression and imagination of children. This site
invites children from all corners of the globe to submit their art for
display. Poetry and short stories are also accepted.
Kids
Web: Japan find out what
kids are doing in Japan at this fun site! This
is a fun place to learn about Japanese culture, legends, art, language
and a whole lot more! Visit the gallery, too.
Living
Colour- Australian Museum of Art - Fun interactive site to learn
all about color and how to use color
more effectively. Good science integration
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Animal
Athletes Fun action games from the National Museum of Wildlife
Art. Get the neighborhood acting out - have some fun! See
other fun things
to do
Bembo's
Zoo Online ABC book.
Letters are used to design the animals.
Fun Flash presentation of this
great picture book for kids (and adults, too).
Bubble
Town
Blow huge bubbles, long
lasting bubbles. All you need to become a bubble blowing expert is
here in Bubble Town.
Clown
Face Fun: Create a Clown's Face - from Ringling Bros/Barnum
and Bailey. Mix and match the choices in seven different categories to
create hundreds of different clown faces! For more fun, try Morph
a Clown - several different face to distort
Cyberkids
Home
Kids Connect--fun and games-- creative works and more!
4Kids.org
-Cool Spots (sites for kids), Speak Out (topics for discussion),
Fun Stuff, Kid Quest, and more. Featured in many newspapers.
Fun
and Games for Thinking Students Art Attack, Brain Twisters,
Math and Science activities, Simulations and Sound....Lots to do! Page
created by Alix Peshette, R.W. Emerson Jr. High computer science
teacher.
Games for All Areas You will find games and educational sites for
all subject areas. Take some time to explore. Discover the world of
art, science, history and geography with Web
Adventures and online activities!
Geonet
Game - Students can practice their geography knowledge on
this interactive game. Choose from the United States or the World Map to start, then select from a variety
of knowledge categories for each division. (Needs Flash Plug in)
Hot
kids websites
(100 links)
These are top rated Kids sites for the week.
The content on all of
these sites has not been checked- seems to be more product oriented
than kid oriented.
HipBone
Games "Creativity"
The HipBone Games are so simple a child can play them: if you've ever
thought, "and that reminds me", or "isn't that like
such and such", you've already got the basic idea.
History
for Kids has lots of information, all
specially written for middle school students by experienced university
professors. The site is kid-friendly and kid-safe (though we cannot
guarantee the sites linked to). Lesson
plans, gifts,
and craft
projects are also available.
U.S.
Department of Justice for Kids.
KIDLINK:
for Youth 10-15
Empowering kids and youth to build
global
networks of friends
Kid
Pub More than 40,000 stories written by kids from all over the
planet!
Kids'
Space Make friends all over the world-- see art by kids-- music
activities--costumes and a whole lot more. Share your stories,
pictures, and musical compositions!
Kids
Safe Links Puppets, science,
animation and more.
Kulture
Kidz - learn about African American Culture. Black History,
timeline and more.
LanaKids
- Which Season is Itching You? Informative site by Lanacane®.
Make
Beliefs Comix - create your own comic strips. Select from 10 fun characters with different moods
and write words for blank talk and thought balloons to make the characters talk and think.
Site by Bill Zimmerman.
Make
you own comic book! Enchanted Learning. Print out the pages you
want and start creating.
Microsoft
Kids Web Site!
Free downloads
(don't forget to check with mom and dad first)
Mid
Link
Magazine
The Digital Magazine for Kids by Kids
from 8 to 18.
My
Chicago Interactive site for children age 6 to 12 - uses the
symbols and design of the Chicago flag to explore the city’s rich
and diverse history. Use with a lesson on architecture to explore the
city skyline. Site developed by the Chicago Historical Society.
National
Geographic for Kids Lots of special
features just for kids.
Ology
The study of all sorts of things from the American Museum of Natural
History.
Pencil
Page - Site offers little known facts about pencils.
Play Music
Fun - Interactive site for kids. Listen to the sounds of the orchestra
- write your own music - more!
Research
Site
for Kids
Cool spots, fun stuff, safe surfing.
Robert
Sabuda Pop-up Books Get a peek at some of Mr. Sabuda's books and
learn some techniques yourself. Step by step directions. Have some fun
with pop-ups.
Rosetta
Stone Cleveland Museum Archaeology Lots
of things to learn -
like what they did to make mummies and how
they built the pyramids.
Seussville
The Cat in the Hat, Sam-I-Am, Horton and
the Whos, and the rest of the Seuss characters welcome you to
Seussville, Dr. Seuss's playground in cyberspace.
Shakespeare
is Elementary This site
was created by a 2nd and 3rd grade
class with their teacher, Mrs.
Hanson, and gives an overview of
Shakespeare's life, brief reviews of
some of his work, ideas for teachers,
and artwork by the children. Lots of fun!
Shel
Silverstein Watch a sampling of Silverstein's poetry come to life.
Watch animations of his wacky characters.
Smithsonian
National
Zoo Home
Lots of animal photos
-- Be sure to check out Animals.
Resources
for teachers.
Snowflake
Patterns for Kids Click on any of the Snowflakes
images, then
print out the pattern and instruction page or save and
print the pattern image to the size you desire.
Surfing
the Net with Kids Newspaper columnist Barbara
Feldman's view of what's wonderful on the Web. Welcome parents, kids, teens, grandparents, teachers, librarians and the incurably
curious. Here is an interesting page on Sign
Language!
Yahooligans! Web
search guide for kids.
Young
Composers Kids send musical compositions to this site and can
listen to the compositions. Selections of famous composers available,
too.
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