A. Pintura, Art Detective
Outstanding, clever, and stimulating site using a Dashiell Hammett detective
style to explore art in some depth.
Albright-Knox Art Games.
This interactive site engages children in art activities that help them to
learn about artists and the works of art in the collection of the
Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York. Requires Flash.
The @rt Room Provides a learning environment for
exploring the world of art. Includes bibliographies of art books, exhibits
of kids’ art from different parts of the world, and facts about famous
artists.
Carving at
Skidegate
Photographs and text indicate the elaborate nature of totem pole carving.
This site provides art activities using recycled materials. Ideas and clear
directions can be found for painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, fiber
arts, and crafts from recycled media.
Inside Art
What if you were trapped inside a painting and had to solve a mystery to get
out? An adventure inside art history.
Oriland
This extensive site offers an origami world to explore, an opportunity to
design cities with fold paper models, basic techniques and tips, and a studio
with clear directions for folding more than 70 forms, as well as poetry and
games.
World Wide Art
Gallery
See examples of art done by children from around the world, and connect to
links of art activities and information about art and art history.
Kid’s Times
This current events site is a companion to What’s In the News, a weekly
television program produced by Penn State Public Broadcasting, and offers news
stories written by kids for kids.
The Kids’ Stomping
Ground
A family in Leicester, England, has created a mishmash of jokes, crafts, and
other silliness.
The World Wide
Art Gallery
See examples of art done by children from around the world, and connect to
links of art activities and information about art and art history.
Zoom By Kids, For Kids
This site offers games, activities, projects and more. Play along or submit
your own activities.
FUN FOR CHILDREN
Apple Corps
This was the old Virtual Mr. Spud Head. You can stick puzzle pieces wherever
you want.
Download-a-Dinosaur
Looking for a quick kids’ craft activity (try saying that five times fast)?
Look no further.
Fun with Spot
Fans of Eric Hill's Spot books will enjoy playing these games and reading the
animated versions of some of these books. Shock wave plugin required.
Goodnight Stories
This is the place to come if you want to curl up with a good cyber book or
just play a game.
Little
Explorers
Click on a letter of the alphabet and connect to, not one, but many, many
pictures of works with that letter and hot links to Web sites about that word.
Pauly's Playhouse
Games, sounds, and a gallery of cartoons mostly for very young Web- surfers
with a high-speed Web connection. The site also includes links to shopping and
travel sites for parents.
Play Kids Games
Check out math, alphabet and logic games designed for younger children and
their parents.
Playhouse Disney
Games, songs and activities feature characters from the Disney network.
Sesame Street Central
The kids’ activities page with your friends from Sesame Street. Play games
with Prairie Dawn, Elmo, and the Cookie Monster.
Squigly's Playhouse
Look here for games, crafts, jokes, brainteasers and more.
Tiny Planets
Bing and Bong, aliens from the Tiny Planets, offer games related to
technology, nature, light and color.
Up to 10
Songs, games, and other kid-safe activities for children aged ten and younger.
MUSEUMS
The Art Institute of
Chicago
Includes activities for children. Excellent opening page with animated changes
of the art images. Includes exploring “A Mysterious Mummy” and “Thousands of
Dots” (about a painting by Georges Seurat).
The Children’s Museum of
Indianapolis
The museum offers nontraditional learning opportunities for children and their
families. Includes explorations of dinosaurs and visits to “Rex’s Lending
Library”
The Exploratorium, San
Francisco
An online version of a hands-on museum in San Francisco that permits you to do
your own cow’s eye dissection or learn the science behind a home run. Be sure
to visit the “Learning Studio.”
The Fine Arts Museums of San
Francisco
Utterly fabulous site combining multiple museum holdings in an over
75,000-item database. Images are excellent, and you can send your comments and
knowledge about the paintings to the museum. Requires plugins.
Illinois State
Museum, Springfield
Provides online exhibits about the Ice Ages and prehistoric mammals as well as
a trip back to our Midwestern lands 16,000 years ago.
Los Angeles County Museum
of Art
This fully-searchable database allows the user to search by subject, artist,
keyword and more among over 45,000 records and 27,000 digital images.
Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York
This is one of the largest and finest art museums in the world. Its
collections include more than two million works of art—several hundred
thousand of which are on view at any given time—spanning more than 5,000 years
of world culture, from prehistory to the present.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
The National Gallery of Art and its collections belong to the people of the
United States of America. European and American paintings, sculpture,
decorative arts, and selected works on paper. Full-screen views of whole
paintings and details allow close study. The site also includes information on
artists and on the museum’s facilities and services.
National Gallery of Art for Kids
Explore stories in art, take a post card tour of one of the galleries, get
directions for art activities and projects, and more.
Ology
The American Museum of Natural History offers a unique museum experience for
kids from 8-12. Included are stories, games and interactive activities.
Salem (Mass.) Witch Museum
Useful since kids study this area of history. “Haunted Happenings,” a
commercial part of Salem stuff, is very neat.