Visual Arts
Art Adventures
Interactive site that teaches color theory and other topics.
Artsonia
This website is a kids' art museum. It's stated goal is to offer each child a permanent online gallery to display their works. The site also has teacher created lesson plans available.
Discovering Great Artists
The publisher at this website have compiled a selection of online images for each artist featured in the publisher's book "Discovering Great Artists". Artists are listed in order of their appearance in the chronological presentation from the book.
Draw and Color with Uncle Fred
This site invites you to select a cartoon character and then learn how to draw it. The instructions demonstrate how to combine a series of simple lines to create a final picture. This site contains Google ads on each page, which are not selected by the host of the site and may not be appropriate for your child.
EduPlace
Craft ideas for the family.
Garden of Praise Famous Paintings Art Appreciation
Each lesson on this site offers an image of the work being studied, a brief summary about the artist and/or the work, a worksheet and a page that can be colored by your student. Other features include crossword puzzles and links to additional resources. The site does offer resources for sale and is supported with Google ads.
How To Draw It
Lost Trails
Caution- Some content on this site may not be appropriate for your children to view. (I was not able to review all of the site and there are user added entries that will change from time to time.) However, the site offers photographic images of many artifacts and works of art from all over the world. If you are looking for a particular style of artifact, you might wish to check this site. The site also offers a collection of music. The music and images are available for purchase.
Museum Kids
This site, sponsored by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, offers a wide variety of online activities designed to engage children in the appreciation and understanding of art. Answers to kids' questions, interactive activities and a timeline of art history are just a few of the features available at this site.
National Gallery of Art Loans
The NGA’s Division of Education provides teaching materials (DVDs, CD ROMs, Videocassettes, etc.) free of charge to individuals and organizations within the United States. Simply make a request for materials at least 1 month in advance. You will be responsible for return media mail postage. A catalogue of available materials can be requested via the website or viewed online.
National Gallery- NGA Kids
At this site your child can create interactive art in the art zone. The site allows the student to explore various forms of art by interacting with the works of various artists. You can also download a special children’s guide for the Gallery’s permanent and special collections. Online tours are also available.
Origami
This website (which does have pop-ups and Yahoo ads) has a list of about 19 links to Oragami cartoons, games, instructions, printables, quizes, even math lessons and more.
Smithsonian Institution National Gallery- Online Exhibition
View some of our nation's treasured artwork online. The site offers information about each period or theme as well as a downloadable teacher's guide.
The Artist’s Toolkit
Learn about the various elements of art from lines to movement and rhythm. Each segment of the toolkit allows the viewer to watch a demonstration, see examples of the technique in various works of art and create his or her own composition. Make sure your volume is turned down a bit before opening up any of the lessons- they do make some noise.
Music
8notes.com
This site offers free sheet music for a variety of instruments, as well as additional information about artists, musical styles and more. Several songs can be listened to using the midi format and a few are available in mp3 format as well. Caution: The site is very advertisement heavy so please use caution when clicking or viewing the page.
Arts Alive
This site based in Canada offers education in Music, English Theater, French Theater and Dance. On the site you’ll find interactive activities and resources for students, teachers and parents. Learn the names of famous composers, the role of various instruments or the elements of dance composition all at this single website.
Classics for Kids
This website is designed to help you teach your children about classical music. You can listen to weekly radio broadcasts, play online games, listen to music online and get practice and teaching tips.
Dallas Symphony Orchestra-Kids Page
This website offers some very good games and other activities to introduce children to music theory.
Garden of Praise Keyboard & Music Theory
Right click the PDF file to download the complete lesson file. The lessons online are accompanied by audio snippets and the musical scores can be downloaded as well. Each page is flanked with Google ads.
Happy Note Homepage
This website is designed to market the Happy Note teaching software, but offers some free activities as well. Just check the index on the left side of page for "Freebies".
K-12 Resources for Music
A comprehensive collection of links to support music educators. In the "Sites for Classroom Music Teachers" section there are several links to interactive games and sites where snippets of music can be played.
Music Paper
Printable blank music score sheets.
The New York Philharmonic Kidzone!
This exciting interactive site includes a game room, a composers’ gallery, an instrument “laboratory”, and lots of other special “rooms” to help teach your child about music.
Get it Together- The Composers
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