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A COLLECTION OF LINKS TO ART RELATED RESOURCES

ART LESSONS AND ACTIVITIES | INTERACTIVE SITES | OTHER RESOURCES

93 percent of Americans believe that the arts are vital to providing a well-rounded education. Researchers tell us that getting an early start in the arts can make a real difference in the lives of children. Participation in the arts is important. Research shows that the benefits of early arts education extend way beyond providing a creative outlet for children.
Arts education can help develop: Imagination.. Cognitive skills.. Creative abilities.. Problem solving.. Fine motor skills.. Language.. Social skills.. Sense of time and place.. Focusing.. Listening.. Risk taking.. Tolerance.. Uniqueness and more...
-- Courtesy of Amber Sullivan

ART LESSONS AND ACTIVITIES

• 42eXplore - Contains definitions, activities, the "4 good starting points", and many more links and resources for each thematic topic.
  Ghosts, Ghouls, and Goblins
  Color Drawing Patterns
• A Place of Our Own - A collection of creative activities for preschool children, hosted by Community Television of Southern California.
• Animation Meat - Animation tutorials by Disney instructor Walt Stanchfield and others. Presented by Jon Hooper and Steve Kellener.
• Art Access - Presented by the Art Institute of Chicago. Find lesson plans and activities, hear audio pronunciations of art terms and study artists.
• Arts and Crafts Lesson Plans - A collection of lesson plans posted by teachers on Teachers.net.
• Art in Action - A program designed to introduce art and integrate art into other subjects. Contains links to other sites.
• ArtHistory.net - Look up famous artists and research art styles and periods.
• Art History Resources - Select a period of history and find links to research that era. Presented by Professor Christopher Witcombe of Sweet Briar Collega.
• Artist Index - Select an artist to view brief biography and list of paintings. Presented by Web Museum.
• Artists Helping Children Arts and Crafts - A collection of creative activities for children, hosted by Artists Helping Children. This is a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing comfort to children in hospitals, clinics, and shelters by brightening their environment with murals and other art.
• Bet Borgeson Studio - Online colored pencils courses and tutorials. The galleries of student work provide inspiration. Artist email addresses are are provided if you want to put images into PowerPoint.
• Botanicalart - A forum for artists dedicated to the realistic portrayal of plants, flowers and natural science subjects.
• Cartooning Lessons - Basic lessons by Glen Wyand and Sara Jordan.
• Chunky Monkey Cartoon Lessons - A few lessons on animal cartoons presented by Pauline Comanor.
• Colored Pencil Challenge - Lessons and teacher resources presented by Ann Kullberg.
• Elements of Design: Artist Example - Offers names of great artists whose work exemplifies each element of art. Article written by Mary Rayme at Suite101.com.
• Famous Artists - Select an artist to see links to other resources about that artist. Presented by Linkism.com.
• Famous Paintings - Art appreciation lessons by Garden of Praise. Also has an excellent resource page.
• Gallery Games - A PDF document with games related to Asian masks provided by Center for Puppetry Arts.
• Game Boards - A collection of free game boards and games about many subjects, presented by Jefferson Country Schools.
• Getting to Know.com - A collection of free curriculum guides and activities.
• Getty Games - Art education related games including puzzles, detective and downloads. Presented by the J. Paul Getty Trust.
• Halloween Games & Puzzles - A lesson page from Kaboose.
• How to Draw - A PDF eBook with instructions on drawing various subjects sponsored by CraftyCrayon.com.
• How to Draw a Cartoon Character - By Gary Harbo. Nice Site!
• Incredible Art Department - Activity ideas from art teachers around the world, hosted by Princeton Online. Also see:
  Free Time Activitites
  Drawing Drawer Ideas
  Christmas
  Easter
  Halloween
  Valentine's Day
  St. Patrick's Day
  Art Games and Activities Store
  Student Art Galleries
  Lesson Plans
• Library of Congress Learning Page - Presentations and activities.
• Mark Kistler's School of Imagination - 3-D Drawing Lessons!
• Meet the Masters - An art education program based on master artists.
• Mentisworks - A blog listing art games.
• More Than Math - Games that use math to teach art presented by the Asheville Art Museum.
• Origami Club - This site has animated tutorials on creating origami from hundreds of templates.
• Paper Airplanes on the Internet - Check out these web sites selected by SURFING the NET with KIDS.
• Quia - Search for art activities provided by the Quintessential Instructional Archive. Activities include:
  Color theory crossword puzzle
  Elements of art puzzle
  Principles of design puzzle
  Matching art terms game
• Renaissance Connection - A great site with games, quizzes, lessons and resources on the Renaissance. presented by the Allentown Art Museum.
• T-Shirt Tie Dye Guide and Patterns for Kids - Presented by ooShirts.com.
• WebExhibits - An online museum of science, humanities and culture. Visual art exhibits include:
  Colorvision and Art
  Van Gogh's Letters
• What is a Print? - With flash tutorials on woodcut, etching, lithography, and screenprinting presented by MoMA. This site is great on a digital overhead to demonstrate the processes of each printmaking procedure.
• Youth Arts - All sorts of art related topics and useful links.

INTERACTIVE SITES

• A.Pintura: Art Detective - Learn art history while playing detective presented by Educational Web Adventures.
• Albright-Knox Art Games - An interactive website for kids ages 4 - 12 presented by AlbrightKnox Art Gallery.
  
• Andy Warhol's Marilyn Print - Change the colors of Warhol's famous painting and then print presented by WebExhibits.
• Art Games - This page by Artificial.dk includes at least 16 games you can play online.
• Art Games Online - A collection of online art games by About.com.
• Art History: ArtiFAQ 2100 - A student created site that chronicles art history past and present. By students at John F. Kennedy High School in the Bronx under the direction of Steve Feld.
• The Artist's Toolkit - Explore the elements and principles of visual art by ArtsConnected.
• 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. Presented by Art.com.
• Artsology: Culture for Kids - Offers free online games about the arts, and delivers investigations into topics in the visual arts, music, and literature.
  Online Games
  Art History Match Game
  Rodin's Thinker's Thoughts
  Frans Hals' Portraits
• Bejeweled Twist - An inexpensive downloadable game from Yahoo games.
• Bomomo - Create pictures using patterns that you create with buttons, pointing and clicking.
• Coloring Book.com - Color holiday pictures with your web browser, presented by Coloring.com.
• 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. Presented by the National Gallery of Art.
• The Color.com - An online coloring book. Kids can learn the names of 192 colors while they're coloring.
• Color Test - See if your right brain and left brain are working together. Select the COLOR of the word, not the word. Presented by FireWorksPop.com.
• Colour a Rangoli Pattern - Color an Indian Rangoli pattern online, presented by Snaith Primary School.
• Colour and I - Children and adults can color objects and then have their work graded for symbolism. This is more of an exercise in color symbolism rather than coloring.
• Cosmeo - Features online art games, presented by the Discovery Channel.
• 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.
• Deep Space - An online tutorial in the illusion of depth. This wonderful short video, by Tricia Fuglestad, is geared to the elementary level.
• Dr. Seuss - Seussville - Contains games and activities. Presented by Random House Children Books.
  
• Dreamzone - Objective: Imaginative Art - You can "evolve" existing art by adding to a collection of pictures. It includes a sizable brush and color palette. Powered by Codigital.
• EagleKids - Includes a coloring book, art contest, and eagle art gallery. Sponsored by Master Financial Inc.
• Facemaker - Create a face online. This site takes awhile to load.
• Free Rice - Select famous artists from the offered subjects and answer questions. For each right answer, 20 grains of rice will be donated to the UN World Food Program.
• Getty Games - A great page of games created by the J. Paul Getty Trust.
• Graffiti Creator - Create your own graffiti online. You can choose a font and fill it with graffiti. Sponsored by MindGem Graphics Inc.
• Hampshire Museum - Several painting puzzles and exploration of patterns. Unfortunately, it only works on Windows.
• Haring Kids - Interactive activities that relate to the late graffiti artist Keith Haring. Sponsored by the Keith Haring Foundation.
• Inside Art: An Art History Game - An adventure in Art History by Educational Web Adventures.
• Interactivate Tessellate! - Create your own tessellations online. Presented by Shodor.
• Jackson Pollock.org - Move your mouse around and create a Jackson Pollock-like painting.
• JigZone.com - 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.
• Learning about Leonardo - Why is the Mona Lisa Smiling? - Developed by students for Oracle Think Quest.
• Lego 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.
• Make-a-Flake - Create snowflakes online and save the patterns to your computer. Presented by Barclay.
• MakeBeliefsComix.com - You can create your own comic strip online. Created by Bill Zimmerman and Tom Bloom.
• Math Tesselations - Create an online design using geometric shapes, by Arcytech.
• Mind's Eye Monster Exchange Project - Fun monster art lessons and a collection of student galleries from MonstersExchange.org.
• Modern Art Game - Players compete to gain the most money by buying and selling paintings at auctions and reselling them for profit. Presented by Widipedia.
• Mr. Picasso Head - Drag and drop facial features to create a Picasso image, by RFI Studios.
• Nick Jr. Art Games - A page of online art games featuring cartoons on Nick Jr. television.
• NGAkids - Create paintings online and more from the National Gallery of Art.
• Odosketch - 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 - Interactive online lessons presented by MoMA NY.
• Pencilmation - This site has a collection of funny cartoons that motivate students to draw. Presented by Ross Bollinger.
• PixelFace - Draw an online picture using Flash art tools. Presented by National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
• Planet Perplex.com - Optical illlusions, hidden images, surrealism, and art picture puzzles.
• Portrait Detectives - Lots to learn here - Try it! You will have fun testing your knowledge of how to read a painting. Presented by the Walker National Gallery in Liverpool.
• Puzzle Maker - Play and create puzzles online presented by Discovery Education.
• Rollip - Create Polaroids from your own photos for download or print.
• Scribbler - Turn scribbles into art - Have fun playing. Presented by ZEFRANK.COM.
• Study Sphere - A collection of online art games by Study Sphere.
• Surfing the Net with Kids - A collection of art games.
• Tate Kids - Collection of games, activities and an online gallery presented by the Tate.
• The 5? Art History Quiz - Questions about art by Carol Sutton. Questions change each month.
• Uncle Fred's - Coloring book and other art games from Fred Laswell.
• Virtual Jack-O-Lantern - Carve pumpkins online! Presented by BloomPetals.
• Walker Art Center - Interactive art activities categorized by grade level.
• 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. Presented by Louis Paschoud and Peter Holberton.
• Zwinky - Turn yourself into a cartoon. Dress the character, put on make-up,change hair styles, etc. (Only older versions of Windows works on this site.)

OTHER RESOURCES

• Color Wheel and Color Relationships - Sponsored by the Bedroom Furniture Spot. Aimed at helping those choosing interior decorating color schemes, the site offers color theory that is helpful to all arts. Also include links to related sites.
• Master the Art of Dance - As the popularity of dance increases, more styles are represented and new levels of interest are piqued. Presented by DateHookup.com.
• Widgetbox - Find widgets you can add to browsers and social websites such as MySpace and Facebook.
• Web Sudoku - Sudoko is a logic-based number placement puzzle. For older students.

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