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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.

ArtKidsRule - Fun Activities, Resources & Tutorials for Kids, Grown-ups & Teachers

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 Website takes you on an adventure into a painting. You will be askedto answer some key questions so that you can return to themuseum and begin your adventure again.  You will love this one!

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)

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                                        
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/

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.  

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!

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. 

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

PaPa iNK International Gallery of Children's Art an international gallery of children's art celebrating the creative spirit everywhere. PaPaINK has a small archival gallery of 1940's children's art from the Jewish Museum of Prague Terezín Collection.   Also see the historical children's art section of the site.

FUN ACTIVITIES TO  DO! - MUSIC - WRITING - MORE!

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)

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. 

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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