Webography
Sites for Kids
An
Introduction to Printmaking, Anchorage Museum Children’s
Gallery
This Web site provides a definition and
history
for several printmaking techniques, as well as offers
kid-friendly
instructions for creating each type of print.
A
Family Portrait
Introduces famous artists who painted
their families.
Includes instructions for painting your own family
portrait.
ArtKids
Brief description of minimalism in
kid-friendly
terms.
BBC
Children’s art page on Arcimboldo
Page One has a biography and
descriptions of
several of Arcimboldo’s paintings.
BBC School
Wonderful interactive where students
can explore the effects of light and shadow.
There is also a small quiz at the end.
BetterPhoto
for Kids and Teens
A site dedicated to kids and young
adults interested
in the art of taking pictures. Includes sections on pets,
friends
and family, vacations and more.
Carmine’s
Introduction to Portraits
Easy introduction to portraits:
includes images.
Colorworm Explains Color
An interactive student Web site that
teaches
about the visible spectrum, the color wheel, and the
painter’s
palette.
Destination
Modern Art:
An interactive Web site for elementary
school-aged
children to learn about modern art.
Draw
a Self-Portrait
Includes biographical information and
images
of Frida Kahlo and Rembrandt van Rijn.
The
Draw Squad
Three online lessons to give confidence
in drawing.
Environmental
Protection Agency: Environmental Kids Club
This Web site offers students games,
pictures, and stories as a way to explore
the environment and learn how to protect it.
Environmental
Protection Agency: Welcome to Recycle City
In this Web site, students can explore Recycle City
(a town that reduces waste
and betters the environment), explore Dumptown (a town that was ravaged
by trash),
create their own Recycle City, and participate in different recycling
activities.
Hands
on History of Photography
Entries on the history of sunprints,
pinhole
photography and camera obscura.
Imagination
Factory
This Web site teaches kids about the
importance
of recycling and the different types of art projects they
can create
with recycled materials. The “Trash Matcher” link allows
students
to choose a type of recyclable material and provides them
with
an art/recycling activity that calls for that material.
Pacon
Creative Projects
A quick way to make cute plaster
creatures.
Photography
As A Fine “Arf”
An exhibition of photographs in which
dogs behave
like people and people are transformed into dogs! This
exhibition
presents a selection of historical photographs that also
explore
the complex relationships of people and dogs. Most were
made a century
or more before Wallace Wegman, and some hark back to the
earliest
years of photography, when technical challenges made any
image of
an animal a rarity.
Portrait
for Kids, National Gallery of Art
Follow the clues and help solve a
make-believe
mystery! Using your noggin and a special spyglass tool,
you’ll
uncover hidden layers of the painting and learn
fascinating facts
about the portrait along the way, from the National
Gallery of Art.
Let the sleuthing begin!
The
Artist’s Toolkit: Visual Elements and Principles
Students can “Explore the Toolkit”
to learn about and interact with the elements of art and
create
their own artwork.
What
is a Print?, Museum of Modern Art
This amazing Web site has interactive
demonstrations
of how to make woodcuts, etchings, screenprints, and
lithographs.
It also has a gallery of images for each type of print.
