OTHER ART MUSEUM LINKS
Great Sites for Drawing and Other Art IdeasYouTube: Art for Kids Hub Hundreds of step-by-step videos for kids from pre-school to high school. Tons of subject matter, including every animal imaginable and lots of characters from popular kid culture, all guided by a lighthearted dad drawing with his kids. (Most HES kids are now familiar with drawing from these videos.) YouTube: Muffalo Potato Step-by-step drawing using numbers and letters. Hosted by a funny dude and a cast of puppets, too! YouTube: Red Ted Art Huge variety of craft ideas, most pretty simple and not requiring a lot of materials. YouTube: Artrageous with Nate Kid-friendly videos ranging from making your own art supplies to profiles of fascinating creative types, both historic and modern. YouTube: Cartooning4Kids How to draw all your favorite characters. Really. All of them. Including characters from Fortnite and Minecraft. YouTube: Draw So Cute Step-by-step videos for drawing "cute" versions of just about anything that can be drawn "cute." Includes some interesting craft projects, too. Drawing with Mr. J Simple follow-along drawing videos that also focus on kids' emotional issues. All you need is a sticky-note pad and a pencil. YouTube: Harptoons: Drawing with Steve Harpster Step-by-step cartoons, including lots of popular characters from TV, movies, and games, done in a fun and expressive style. Online Art Making Sites Drawing and Painting Nick Jr. Free Draw Easy-to-learn digital drawing canvas for all elementary ages. ABCya! Paint Digital painting tool for younger elementary and preschool artists. ABCya! Animate Make simple drawings come alive with this basic animator. Color with Leo Drawing, painting, portraits, and color mixing. Especially good site for younger elementary kids. I like how this site emphasizes using basic shapes to create drawings. AutoDraw Simple online drawing tool. Great for learning some basics. But the coolest feature is "autodraw": you draw and the app "guesses" what you drew, giving you several pre-made images of the same subject to choose from. What To Draw A pretty cool vintage (1913) step-by-step drawing guide to all kinds of subjects. We have a lot of books like this in the art room that the kids are used to using during their free drawing time. Click on the image to turn pages. Sketchpad For a tool that looks so simple, this one offers lots of creative choices. Kleki - Painting Canvas Drawing and painting tool with a simple but flexible interface. Other Cool Tools Chrome Music Lab: Kandinsky Artists Wassily Kandinsky heard music as he created his abstract paintings. This app allows users to create an abstract drawing using lines and shapes and hit "play" to hear what their artwork "sounds" like. Tinkercad Beginning, very intuitive CAD program with wide selection of ready-made objects with which to design. Students can use it to create 3D printer files! Sign in with a Google account. Flame Painter A tool that lets you create original paintings with "flame" brushes. I could play with it all day! Scrap Coloring Digitally decorate and color tons of blank coloring pages with customized color schemes and patterns. Line Rider More engineering than art, but I can't deny the fun... Pixilart Simple drawing site, but with a feature that creates simple GIFs. Piskel Another tool for creating simple animations. Build Your Snowman Online snow-person maker with a sense of humor! Paper Critters A tool for creating blocky, 3D "critters" with any personality the creator chooses. This Is Sand One of those "What will they think of next" apps, but a neat medium to play with. What is a Print? From the Museum of Modern Art, interactive, step-by-step processes for making several different types of prints. Aminah's World Cool collage tool based on the work of artist Aminah Robinson. Make Beliefs Comix Comic strip maker with a big variety of ready-made characters, speech bubbles, and more. TheColor.com Hundreds of online (no printing them out -- just color online) coloring pages with loads of color choices Symmetrical Designs and Creating with Patterns ABCya! Magic Mirror A fun, simple tool for exploring symmetry. Myoats Really cool tool for creating limitless radial designs. Silk Similar to Flamepainter, but easier controls and focuses on symmetrical designs. Symmetry Artist Mixes math with art to create designs with line or radial symmetry. Interactivate: Tessallate! Simple tessellation tool. (Tessellations are arrangements of shapes in regular patterns.) SnowDays Make your own unique 6-pointed snowflakes -- the same method we use in class, just digital! Build Your Own Kaleidoscope Just like the name says, with lots of cool choices. BrainBashers - Optical Illusions For fans of all things Op Art, dozens of optical illusions to mess with your brain. Photo Editing Pixlr This is a powerful online photo editor. "Express" is a simpler version that offers lots of "total photo" effects, while "Expert" has several tools similar to those found in Photoshop. BeFunky A little easier to learn than Pixlr with a lot of powerful and creative total photo effects, including some specific to portraits that allow the user to realistically apply makeup to a subject's face. Many features require $, but the basics are free. Famous Artists and Their Styles Andy Warhol's Marilyn Prints Play with the colors on one of Warhol's iconic prints of Marilyn Monroe. Keith Haring Coloring Book Easy-to-use drawing pad for creating colorful works in this artist's modern style. Picasso Head Create a face, Picasso-style! Easy and fun for kids. Mondrian's Boogie Blocks Deconstruct and reconstruct a cube to construct (sort of) Mondrian-like creations. Mondrian With Google Sheets All About Art (with some games, too) Google Arts and Culture Google's resource for all things art, including the ability to take virtual tours of hundreds of art museums throughout the world. Given the subject matter of some exhibits both on the main page and in some of the museums, parental guidance is advised. Art History Puzzle Set A few famous paintings as puzzles, with easy to difficult settings. Switch Zoo Combine different animal parts - while learning interesting animal facts - to create your own bizarre animal. Toy Theater - Art Lots of simple design games, including some 3D tools, as well as spin art, radial designs, and even a simple animator. Some drawing and coloring pages, too. Artist's Toolkit Artist's Toolkit is a great site for elementary kids to learn about the elements of art and principals of design by seeing artworks come to life and then creating their own with simple digital palettes. |
Includes a great interactive map of the museum, as well as a "time machine" for finding works of art across the World and from ancient to modern.
National Gallery of Art for Kids
If you're ever in the nation's capital with an older student with art interests, the National Gallery of Art is an inspiring place. Many of the most famous artists we study in the art room are exhibited at the NGA. Currently, this link leads to info about the NGAKids app for iPad.
Tate Kids
Loads of kid art games here from the Tate Museums in the UK.
Destination: Modern Art
An interactive visit to the Museum of Modern Art in New York, friendly even for younger elementary students.
