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Online Art Activities for Kids
- Artists Helping Children - Children & Art Resources for the Budding Child Artist- provided by Artists
Helping Children - a non-profit organization dedicated to
bringing comfort to children in hospitals, clinics, and shelters
by brightening their environment with murals and other art.
- Art Just for Kids - IAD's link to art appreciation - art history - museum "trips" -
online games and projects - fun things to do.
- ARTcapades with K-3 bilingual online activities and lessons.
- ArtPad- a great online painting program that allows
you to select a brush and color, and paint away. You can view the paintings of other visitors as well as e-mail your painting to others.
- Artsology: Culture for Kids Open your minds to new ideas. Fun activities and games for kids - test your knowledge. Art History Match Game - Rodin's Thinker's Thoughts - Frans Hals' Portraits
- The 5 Art History Quiz, with questions about art, art about religion
and more. Questions change each month.
- Bomono- Create pictures using patterns that you create with buttons, pointing and clicking.
- Carlos'
Coloring Book Home, where you can color holiday pictures with
your web browser.
- Carmine's Introduction to Color- This site has activities that help younger students learn about color. There are several other sections such as landscape adventure and Carmine's Portraits.
- Cartooning Lessons, basic lessons by Glen Wyand and Sara Jordan.
- Chunky Monkey Cartoon Lessons, with a few lessons on animal cartoons.
- 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.
 The Color Game- IAD's lesson on color at the middle school level.- Color Test- See if your right brain and left brain are working together.
Select the COLOR of the word not the word.
- Colour a Rangoli Pattern- Color an Indian Rangoli pattern online.
- Colour Your Profile- Children and adults can colour objects and then have their work graded for colour symbolism. This is more of an excercise in colour symbolism rather than colouring.
- Cosmeo- Features online art games by Discovery Education.
- Curious Corner- Several online art games by the Art Institute of Chicago. See the mask maker, cornell boxes, create portraits, and match shapes, textures, and sounds.
- Drawing Drawer- Art teacher Marty Reid has a long list of things students can do when they get done early.
- Dr. Seuss- Click on the Playground link for many games. Also see What Color are your Days, Make Your Own Bookmark, and Things to do on a Rainy Day.
- Dreamzone-
You can "evolve" existing art by adding to a collection of pictures.
It includes a sizable brush and color palette.
- EagleKids,
where you can find a coloring book, art contest, and eagle art gallery.
- Facemaker,
where you can create a face online. This site takes awhile to load.
- Free Rice- Answer questions about famous artists and for each answer you get right, they donate 20 grains of rice throught the UN World Food Program.
- Free Time Activities- IAD's List of free time activities submitted by teachers.
- Game Boards- A collection of free game boards and games by Jefferson Country Schools.
- Garden of Praise- with art appreciation lessons for kids.
- Getting to Know.com- A collection of free curriculum guides and activities.
- Getty Games- A great page of games created by the Getty Museum in Los Angeles.
- Ghosts, Ghouls, and Goblins- With Halloween activities, games, webquests, and more.
- Go West Young Artist- Go back in time and visit with artists through time in America.
- Graffiti Creator- Create your own graffiti online. You can choose a font and fill it with graffiti.
- Halloween Games & Puzzles- A lesson page from Kaboose.
- Hampshire Museum- Several painting puzzes and exploration of patterns. Unfortunately, it only works on Windows.
- Haring Kids- With interactive activities that relate to the late graffiti artist Keith Haring.
- IAD's Art Games and Activities- This page includes activity ideas from art teachers from around the world.
- IAD's Free Time Activitites- This page includes a list of activities when students are done with their work.
- IAD's Christmas Page- with lessons and activitites
- IAD's Drawing Drawer Ideas- What to do when students get done earlyl.
- IAD's Easter Page- with lessons and activities
- IAD's
Halloween- with lessons and activities
- IAD's Pointillator- Read about the art of Seurot and then create a pointillism picture.
- IAD's Valentine's Day- with lessons and activities
- IAD's St. Patrick's Day- with lessons and activities
- Interactivate Tessellate!- You can create your own tessellations onine.
- How to Draw a Cartoon Character- by Gary Harbo. Nice Site!
- International
Child Art foundation- They have games and puzzles.
- Jackson Pollock.org-
Move your mouse around and create a Jackson Pollock-like painting.
- Jigsaw- You can create your own jigsaw puzzles online. Create puzzles from works of art.
- KIDLINK -
Online activities for students. How do you want the world to be a
better place? Lots to see and do on this site - kids' art music and
more.
- Kim and Jason: The Comic Strip About Childhood. By Jason Kotecki.
The site has the daily comic strip, which follows the misadventures
of two young children trying to make straight the crooked world
of grown-ups.
- Learn Art- A very comprehensive list of educational art activities by Beaucoup.
- Leonardo's Workshop- Learn about Leonardo Da Vinci while have fun doing it.
- Let's Get Flurrious- Click on the screen to create pictures using shapes.
- Library of Congress Learning Page- You can find lots of game and activities here.
- Make-a-Flake- Create snow flakes online and save the patterns to your computer.
- Make Belief Comics- You can create your own comic strip online here.
- Mandala Maker From Girls Go Tech - Girl Scouts. 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. -More
Games
- Mark
Kistler's Imagination Station! - 3-D Drawing Lessons!
- Math
Tesselations, created an online design using geometric shapes
- Mentisworks- A blog with art games
- Mind's
Eye Monster Exchange Project, for fun monster art lessons and
a collection of student galleries.
- More Than Math- These games use math to teach art.
- Mr. Picasso Head- Where you can drag and drop facial features to create a Picasso image.
- National Museum Liverpool - Portrait Interactive Lots
to learn here - Try it! You will have fun testing your knowledge
of how to read a painting.
- NGAkids- Create paintings online and more!
- Nick Jr.- A page of online art games featuring cartoons on Nick Jr. television.
- Odosketch- You can create your own online sketches and see the sketches of others. You can also view a slideshow of sketches in action.
- Online Activities/Art Safari- with interactive online lessons.
- Pac Mondrian- Move Pac Man around a Mondrian maze. This one is fun!
- Paper Airplanes on the Internet, Check these sites selected by Surfing
the net with Kids.
- Pencilmation- This site has a collection of funny cartoons that motivates students to draw.
- PixelFace- You can draw an online picture using Flash art tools.
- Planet Perplex- With optical illlusions, hidden images, surrealism, and art picture puzzles.
- Quia-
Where you can do a search for art activities. You can also do a color theory crossword puzzle, an elements of art puzzle, principles of design puzzle and matching art terms game.
- Renaissance Connection- A great site with games, quizes, lessons and resources on the Renaissance.
- Rollip- Create Polaroids from your own photos for download or print.
- SceneCaster- Create 3D scenes and explore what others have created.
- Scribbler -
Turn scribbles into art - Have fun playing
- smARTkids- Play puzzles online by Discovery Education.
- Study Sphere- A collection of online art games.
- Surfing the Net with Kids- They have a number of art games there.
- Tate Kids Art Detective- Find clues and solve art mysteries online.
- The Color.com- An online coloring book. Kids can learn the names of 192 colors while they're coloring.
- Uncle
Fred's Coloring book and other art games.
- Virtual Jack-O-Lantern- You can carve pumpkins online!
- Walker Art Center has interactive art activities categorized by grade level.
- Warhol: Online Factory- Create silkscreens online while learning how Andy Warhol created his art.
- Widgetbox- These are widgets you can add to browsers and social websites such as MySpace and Facebook.
- YouDraw 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 children and adults.
- Youth Arts- All sorts of art related topics.
They don't understand that the background color of a website must contrast with the text, but otherwise you'll find some useful links.
- Zwinky- Turn yourself into a cartoon. Dress the character, put make-up on change hair styles, etc. Sorry, but only old versions of Windows works on this.
Lesson Plans for Art Teachers- See Separate Page
Educational
Interactive Sites by Students
- Art
History: ArtiFAQ 2100 Student created site - chronicles art
history past and present. By students at John F. Kennedy
High School in the Bronx under the direction of Steve Feld.
- Curse
of King Tut: Fact or Myth? Award winning site by students at
John F. Kennedy High School in the Bronx under the direction
of Steve Feld.
- Getty
Games- Art education-related games including puzzles, detective, downloads and more.
- Learning
about Leonardo - Why is the Mona Lisa Smiling? student created
site - presenting original music by Leonardo da Vinci. By
students at John F. Kennedy High School in the Bronx under the
direction of Steve Feld.
- Newton's Castle - Learn about color, optical illusions, observations
from nature and fascinating facts about how cars roll up hill and
why dogs chase cars. Created by students at John F. Kennedy
High School in the Bronx under the direction of Steve Feld.
- The
Shroud of Turin - web site provides information to suggest
that Leonardo DaVinci may actually have created the shroud, discussing
his motivations as well as his capabilities and presents the information,
allowing visitors to the website to express their own opinions
on this subject. Created by students at John
F. Kennedy High School in the Bronx under the direction of
Steve Feld.
- Web Sudoku- a logic-based placement puzzle. For older students.
Art
Media Tutorials - Drawing - Painting
- Animation
Meat- With many animation tutorials by Disney instructor Walt
Stanchfield.
- Art Workshops: Listing of national workshops of artist Cynthia Padilla
- Bet Borgeson: Colored Pencils. Online course. Site has some images
in the gallery you may want to show kids - and some online tutorials.
Email addresses are given for artists if you want to put images
in a PowerPoint.
- Botanicalart- A forum for artists dedicated to the realistic portrayal of plants, flowers and natural science subjects.
- Colored Pencil Challenge: See Lessons and Teacher resources
- Deep Space- An online tutorial in the illusion of depth. This wonderful short video, by Tricia Fuglestad, is geared to the elementary level.
- Gallery Games (PDF)
 - A great document with games related to Asian masks.
- How to Draw (PDF) - An eBook with instructions on drawing various subjects.
- PixelPerfect- Video lessons on digital art.
- Sketching and Drawing with botanical artist, Cynthia Padilla. Learn and
improve drawing skills through direct observation in dry media
such as graphite pencil, colored pencil, pen and ink, charcoal,
and pastels.
- Study Art a
large glossary of art terms, styles, and artists.
- What is a Print?- With flash tutorials on woodcut, etching, lithography, and screenprinting. This site is great on a digital overhead to demonstrate the processes of each printmaking procedure.
Ideas for Art Project / Activity / Learning Centers
- Art Game Ideas- A list of ideas from Getty list members on IAD.
- Cartoon Aliens-
 put a pile of alien and space cartooning books in a center with paper and set them free!
- Impressionist Art Card Game -
 Players fish for art by Monet, Renoir, Degas, Pissarro, Caillebotte, Cassatt and Morisot.
- Legos sculptures
 Place the variety bucket of Legos pieces in a center. Students can create their own sculptures. Students can also design their own Legos models and submit them to a contest.
- Lincoln Logs -
 Children can design their own homes or create wooden sculptures.
- Modern Art Game -
 Players compete to gain the most money by buying and selling paintings at auctions and reselling them for profit.
- Monster
Engine - Dave Devries renders children's drawings
of monsters in realistic detail (comic book style). Might be
a fun lesson idea for you to do with younger students and high
school. Create your own monster book for children.
- Origami Club- This site has animated tutorials on creating origami from hundreds of templates.
- Van Gogh Art Card Game -
 Use strategy and memory to collect all the works of art by each artist
Board Games & Kits
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