Art for Kids is a YouTube channel with fun, informative videos that walk kids through various art projects.
Art for Kids is a YouTube channel with fun, informative videos that walk kids through various art projects.
The project aims to create high-quality, most complete and well-structured online repository of fine art. The site presents both public domain artworks and works that are protected by copyright. The last ones are posted on the site in accordance with fair use principle, because:
WikiPaintings.Org The project aims to create high-quality, most complete and well-structured online repository of fine art. We hope to make classical art a little more accessible and comprehensible, and also want to provide a new form of interaction between contemporary artists and their audience. In the future we plan to cover the entire history of art — from cave artworks to the new talents of today.
National Gallery of Art Images NGA Images is a repository of digital images of the collections of the National Gallery of Art. On this website you can search, browse, share, and download images. A standards-based reproduction guide and a help section provide advice for both novices and experts. More than 25,000 open access digital images up to 3000 pixels each are available free of charge for download and use. NGA Images is designed to facilitate learning, enrichment, enjoyment, and exploration.
Coloring Squared is a new series of coloring pages that seek to practice math concepts while having fun with cool pixel art puzzles.
Pulp-O-Mizer The Pulp-O-Mizer allows its lucky operator to select from menus of backgrounds, foregrounds, and magazine titles and to add new and exciting text to them for use as web graphic memes, blog illustrations, Facebook posts, forum messages, or for any other non-commercial purpose.
The Night Zookeeper makes a great unit of work in schools. The Night Zookeeper is a project you can deliver very easily in your classroom. It is accessible for all primary school students from Foundation Stage to Year (Grade) 6. The project fosters a great sense of creativity amongst pupils and has seamless cross-curricular links. It involves aspects of Literacy, Art and ICT.
50 Best Blogs for STEM Educators is simply a list of blogs related to teaching science, technology, engineering, and math.
Ten Common Lessons the Arts and STEM Teach is a great article on the YES Generation blog correlating the positive impact of the arts in conjunction with science and math instruction.
Artsonia Art teachers can post student art work online at this free website. Teachers can build a gallery of their students’ art projects. The website lets
family and friends log on to see the children’s art. Friends and relatives can
comment on students’ work, which is posted with their first name and an ID
number.
Create a Snowflake allows students to create digital snowflakes and email them to a friend. The snowflakes also appear on the web site falling from the sky.
Meet Me at Midnight Welcome to Meet Me at Midnight, an interactive adventure set in the Smithsonian American Art Museum (American Art). Our goal is to introduce youngsters to American art and artists using examples from our collection. We also aim to teach art terms and concepts in a fun, game-based setting.
Each avatar from the “treasure chest” takes visitors on a different adventure. The coyote teaches about sculpture; the Headless Horseman, about landscape; and the ballerina, about light. Every story takes place in five sequential galleries—each hosting either a puzzle or an artist-match game. The five gallery topics always follow the same order—media, technique, design, purpose, and culture.
Getty Games is a place where kids can play online games related to art, spatial relationships, and solving puzzles.
Birmingham Museum for Kids (not Alabama but the UK) has resources for student learning on the topics of Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Roman Empire, Victorians, and World War II. There is also an Art Gallery and a Museum Zone to explore.
My Place in Space Contest has a NOVEMBER 1 deadline.
Who can enter? Grades 2-4
When are entries due? November 1, 2010
What is it? This year’s contest invites young scientists and artists to explore our solar system and beyond. Read stories and books. Search websites. Watch movies. Then draw a picture showing what you learned. Enter your artwork in the 2010 IGES art contest!
What do you win? Artwork will be featured on IGES’s website. Other prizes include a framed color certificate and a Visa gift card.
Supalogo.Com is another site that allows you to create graphic text for your web sites or other publications.
Cool Text.Com is a great free graphics generator that creates headline type text for web sites, newsletters, etc…
Icon Scrabble is a free tool where you input text that is converted to icons in jpg format.
Slimber.Com Online Drawing Utility & Galley
It allows users to draw online, replay and save their drawings. Users can rate, comment and share drawings. The Most Rated drawings are rewarded by being featured on the home page.
Explore Art with Two Country Gentlemen Dogs from the San Francisco Museum of Art allows students to go inside a painting and learn a little about the culture and the artist.
Women\’s Day Magazine Essay Contest – Win Supplies for Your School
Woman’s Day magazine, in collaboration with the National Association of Elementary School Principals, is sponsoring a contest for one lucky school to win more than $1,000 worth of art supplies, offices supplies (pens, pencils, notebooks, etc), and other resources to help students achieve.
How to Enter:
Anyone can nominate a school—parents, teachers, even kids. To enter, write an essay of 250 words or less explaining why your school needs supplies. Be sure to include your name, address, daytime phone number, and e-mail address, as well as the name and address of the school, the principal’s name and his or her phone number.
Mail your Essay to:
Woman’s Day School Giveaway
Woman’s Day
1633 Broadway, 42nd floor
New York, NY 10019
Deadline:
All entries must be received by April 26, 2010.
Tagxedo.Com helps you create word clouds (much like Wordle) but with new capabilities. Tagxedo turns words — famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters — into a visually stunning tag cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text.
Build Your Wild Self is a web site from the New York Zoo and Aquarium. Students (and maybe even teachers) will have fun creating an animal caricature of themselves.