The Best of ClickSchooling!® Art
By Diane Flynn Keith
ClickSchooling is a free e-newsletter that
provides a daily review of an educational website that parents and teachers can use
to help children and students learn every subject imaginable. Diane Flynn Keith has
been publishing ClickSchooling since 2000.
Here are some of the best Art websites she has featured in ClickSchooling that you
can use to give your kids a world-class education.
Note: ClickSchooling makes every effort to recommend websites that have
content that is appropriate for general audiences. Because websites change, parents
and teachers are STRONGLY CAUTIONED to preview the sites for suitable content, and
then explore the sites TOGETHER with their children or students.
ClickSchooling Art
KinderArt
If you want one site to bookmark that will provide you with an art curriculum for your
homeschool years -- this is it! KinderArt has the largest selection of free arts and
crafts lessons on the Internet. The projects are for grades K-12. You will find art
lessons in architecture, art history, folk art, painting, print making, sculpture,
textiles and more. The lessons are simply designed with clear instructions accompanied
by photos and illustrations.
The Little Artist
A terrific introduction to understanding colors in art for young artists in the early
elementary grades. There are free coloring and painting pages that you can print out.
Learn to make your very own color wheel.
Coloring.com
Over 100 possible choices of pictures to color using the computer. There are animals,
trucks, planets, clowns, sports characters, holiday pictures, and much, much more! When
you are through coloring, you can print out your creation, email it to a friend, save it,
or choose another picture to color. This is a great resource for rainy day projects,
holiday decorations, and just plain old fun using the computer.
Cartoon
Factory
Have you or your children ever wished you knew how to draw cartoons? Well, this website
(maintained by the Cartoon Factory television program aired on PBS) offers step-by-step
instructions on how to make a few, simple cartoon figures.
A. Pintura: Art Detective
A. Pintura: Art Detective is an online game about art history and art composition. In the
game, you play a 1940's noir detective with a degree in art history. A distraught woman
asks you to identify the artist who made a painting she found in her grandfather's attic.
To do so, you must examine paintings by famous artists from Gauguin to Van Gogh. Each
example highlights an art concept such as composition, style or subject. The story
concludes with an appropriate noirish twist, as the woman's true identity and motives
become apparent.
Inside Art
This website offers a quick course in art appreciation for kids through the use of a story
and lots of wonderful animation and beautiful photographs of artwork.
Lizzie Visits The Sculpture Garden
The National Gallery of Arts offers an animated cartoon story about a little girl who
visits the Gallery's Sculpture Garden. In the garden, Lizzie has her own private
adventure as each sculpture comes to life to tell her a little bit about how to appreciate
sculpture as art.
Leonardo's Workshop
If you want to play a fun game that will teach your kids about art techniques, take them
for a visit to this site. When you get there you accept a mission to travel back in time
to Leonardo da Vinci's studio. There you will investigate items in his studio in an effort
to find clues to the mystery you are trying to solve. This is where the real art lesson
begins. Click on an item on Leonardo's desk -- and discover art tools he used and artwork
and inventions he created. This is one of the best sites we have seen for art instruction.
Plan to spend lots of time here -- you and your kids will really enjoy it!
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