Art Express
http://www.harcourtschool.com/menus/art_express.html

"The Yellow Boat," Benjamin Saar

Links to activities, most of them interactive, to learn about art forms. From Harcourt School Publishers. for students in grades 1 through 5. This is not a new site and some links are broken.

The Art Room
http://www.arts.ufl.edu/art/rt_room/
From the University of Florida, a neat set of activities to learn about art and how to make art – and to think in new and original ways. There are links to other good sites. Last update April 2004. For kids 7-12.

Crayola Works: Coloring Activities
http://www.crayola.com/activitybook/
Not much to challenge originality, but if you join the site there a lots of images to color. Kept current. For kids 4-7.

Cartooning Lessons
http://www.coloring.com
Register and color pictures with the computer. For kids 6-8—with a bit of help. Not kept current.

Chunky Monkey: How to Cartoon
http://www.chunkymonkey.com/howto/howto.htm
Fun hints about drawing cartoon animals. Some coloring and a chance to draw your own scenes. Not kept current. For kids 7-9.

Destination Modern Art
http://www.moma.org/destination/
A great interactive journey exploring modern art with an outer space visitor. From the MOMA in New York City. Not dated. For kids 5-8.

Draw and Color with Uncle Fred
http://www.unclefred.com/index.html
Very simple steps for drawing several animals and action characters. For young children, 5-7.

Drawing Tips
http://www.radicalman.com/tips/main.htm
Over 100 tips for drawing cartoon settings and subjects. Not dated. For kids 8-12.

Educational Web Adventures
http://www.eduweb.com/portfolio/visualartsadv.php
Wonderful, award winning, interactive sites created by Eduweb for a number of arts institutions. All with great humor.

• Architect Studio 3D, grades 4-8
• Street to Studio: The Art of Jean-Michel Basquiat, grades 9-12
• The Renaissance Connection, grades 4-6
• Picturing Women, grades 9-12
• World Myths and Legends, graades 7-12
• The Artist’s Toolkit, grades K-12
• ArtEdventures, grades K-12
• Surrounded by Beauty, grades 9-12
• A Brush with Wildlife: Create a Composition with Carl Rungius, grades 4-8
• Art Tales: Telling Stories with Wildlife Art, grades 4-8
• Kintosaurs: Putting Some Teeth into Art and Science, grades 4-8
• Building Surprises (Frank Gehry’s Weisman Museum in Minneapolis), grades 4-8
• A. Pintura Art Detective, grades 4-8
• Inside Art, grades 4-8

New sites added as they are created.

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
http://hirshhorn.si.edu/education/interactive.html
Their Art Interactive currently includes:

• Learn About Sculpture: figurative, biomorphism, assemblage/found object, geometric
• Create a Sculpture.

Updated 2004. For Kids 8-12.

Making Oatmeal Box Pinhole Cameras
http://users.rcn.com/stewoody/makecam.htm
Good instructions for a neat project. With a bit of help most anyone can make his or her own camera! Updated 2003. For kids 7 or 8 and older.

NGA Kids: The National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov/kids/kids.htm
Super interactive art that you can make online. You’ll need Shockwave, Quick Time, Flash and Acrobat Reader. Some activities for little kids, others for middle-aged kids. 4-14. Updated 2004.
Be sure to check out The Art Zone at:
http://www.nga.gov/kids/zone/zone.htm

Origami Page: Paper Folding Activities for Kids
http://www.tammyyee.com/origami.html
Simple patterns to print, cut and fold. For children, probably with some help, 6-8. Six years old, but still interesting.

Sanford Art Edventures
http://www.sanford-artedventures.com
a commercial site from Sanford, suppliers of art products. It has some very interesting activities and information about making and appreciating art.  Included are:

• Create Art, activities to learn about Architecture, Drawing, Color, Industrial Design, Landscape, Portrait, Drawing Techniques, Perspective Techniques, Color Techniques, Portrait & Figure Techniques
• Study Art: Elements and Principles of Art, Other Art Concepts, Media, Styles, Artists
• Play Art Games has some games for younger kids and some for older ones

Some games are for younger children, but the site is generally aimed at teens. New material added with some regularity.

UC Berkeley Art Museum’s online guide for kids
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/education/kidsguide/
welcome/welcomekids.html
Intractive ways to examine art work from the collection. Very easy to navigate, fun and enlightening. 7-12. Not dated.