ART & CREATIVITY
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Art HistoryEngaging activities, lesson plans and videos about the artists and artwork that changed our world.
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Art with Mati and Dada
Grades K-5 | Start a great journey and discover the famous works of Giotto, Van Gogh, Leonardo Da Vinci, of the Italian Renaissance, the French Impressionism, and many others.
The Art Assignment (PBS)
Grades 6-12 | Weekly PBS Digital Studios production that explores art and art history through the lens of things happening today.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Grades K-12 | Lesson plans, teacher guides and student activities in history and social studies, literature and language arts, foreign languages, arts, and culture.
Google Arts & Culture
Grades 6-12 | Online platform through which the public can access high-resolution images of artworks from partner museums.
Grades K-5 | Start a great journey and discover the famous works of Giotto, Van Gogh, Leonardo Da Vinci, of the Italian Renaissance, the French Impressionism, and many others.
The Art Assignment (PBS)
Grades 6-12 | Weekly PBS Digital Studios production that explores art and art history through the lens of things happening today.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Grades K-12 | Lesson plans, teacher guides and student activities in history and social studies, literature and language arts, foreign languages, arts, and culture.
Google Arts & Culture
Grades 6-12 | Online platform through which the public can access high-resolution images of artworks from partner museums.
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Coloring PagesResearchers and art therapists alike have touted the calming benefits of coloring, so take advantage of the many beautiful printables below for artists of all ages.
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Disney
Elementary| Coloring pages of all your favorite Disney characters, shows and film.
Doodle Art Alley
All Ages | Doodle activities, coloring pages and activity books.
Just Color Adults & Just Color Kids
All Ages | Coloring pages of famous characters, movies, anime, video games and more.
National Geographic
All Ages | Coloring pages and "Draw Something" missions related to various science and social studies topics.
PBS Kids
Ages 2-8 | Coloring pages, printables, crafts, experiments, games, apps, recipes, etc featuring your favorite PDS characters.
Super Coloring
All Ages | Coloring pages by subject, such as astronomy and space, alphabet and letters, history and more.
Elementary| Coloring pages of all your favorite Disney characters, shows and film.
Doodle Art Alley
All Ages | Doodle activities, coloring pages and activity books.
Just Color Adults & Just Color Kids
All Ages | Coloring pages of famous characters, movies, anime, video games and more.
National Geographic
All Ages | Coloring pages and "Draw Something" missions related to various science and social studies topics.
PBS Kids
Ages 2-8 | Coloring pages, printables, crafts, experiments, games, apps, recipes, etc featuring your favorite PDS characters.
Super Coloring
All Ages | Coloring pages by subject, such as astronomy and space, alphabet and letters, history and more.
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Crafts & ProjectsGet your creative juices flowing with a selection of hands-on crafts, projects and family-fun activities.
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Art Bar: Raising Creative Thinkers
All Ages | Art ideas for the whole family - process, recycled, and nature art; toddler to teen crafts; sensory play; artist studies. A few simple art materials, a table, and a parent or teacher who is willing to let go of expectations, is all that a child needs to become a lifelong creative thinker.
The Artful Parent
All Ages | Easy and fun children's art, seasonal crafts and family fun activities.
Burchfield Penney
All Ages | Online programs posted each Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday with activities for the whole family including home-education projects, conversations about our exhibitions and collections, artist interviews and more.
Crafts on Sea
Toddlers - Elementary | Simple seasonal crafts and activities for young children using basic supplies or items from nature.
Crayola Crafts
All Ages | Browse a wide collection of crafts by tool, occasion and age.
Exploration of the Day
All Ages | Daily scavenger hunt, drawing, and photo collage ideas that can all be done from the comfort of your home.
Free Forest School: Everyday Outside Inspirations
Young Children | A weekly set of nature-based activity ideas for outdoor play and exploration. 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6
Imagine Childhood
All Ages | Nature-based crafts, projects and activities that support children in experiencing the world through their own eyes, ears, fingers, and toes. Organized into categories with quick image references.
Mr Printable
Preschool and Elementary | Enjoy a ton of fresh ideas for preschool learning, kids activities, kids crafts, party printables, holiday fun and DIYs for kids room decorations.
One Little Project
Preschool - 5th Grade | Super fun, easy, colorful and low mess crafts for kids.*
Red Ted Art
All Ages | YouTube channel featuring easy to follow crafts and project ideas.
Scavenger Hunts by Primary Play
All Ages | A huge variety of FREE scavenger hunts you can download such as Outdoors, Easter, Books, Math, Shapes. Visit the Primary Play Facebook page for more ideas and fun!
Sparkle Blog
Ages 2-10 | A roundup of charming and magical crafts, recipes and games for engaging creatively with young kids.*
All Ages | Art ideas for the whole family - process, recycled, and nature art; toddler to teen crafts; sensory play; artist studies. A few simple art materials, a table, and a parent or teacher who is willing to let go of expectations, is all that a child needs to become a lifelong creative thinker.
The Artful Parent
All Ages | Easy and fun children's art, seasonal crafts and family fun activities.
Burchfield Penney
All Ages | Online programs posted each Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday with activities for the whole family including home-education projects, conversations about our exhibitions and collections, artist interviews and more.
Crafts on Sea
Toddlers - Elementary | Simple seasonal crafts and activities for young children using basic supplies or items from nature.
Crayola Crafts
All Ages | Browse a wide collection of crafts by tool, occasion and age.
Exploration of the Day
All Ages | Daily scavenger hunt, drawing, and photo collage ideas that can all be done from the comfort of your home.
Free Forest School: Everyday Outside Inspirations
Young Children | A weekly set of nature-based activity ideas for outdoor play and exploration. 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6
Imagine Childhood
All Ages | Nature-based crafts, projects and activities that support children in experiencing the world through their own eyes, ears, fingers, and toes. Organized into categories with quick image references.
Mr Printable
Preschool and Elementary | Enjoy a ton of fresh ideas for preschool learning, kids activities, kids crafts, party printables, holiday fun and DIYs for kids room decorations.
One Little Project
Preschool - 5th Grade | Super fun, easy, colorful and low mess crafts for kids.*
Red Ted Art
All Ages | YouTube channel featuring easy to follow crafts and project ideas.
Scavenger Hunts by Primary Play
All Ages | A huge variety of FREE scavenger hunts you can download such as Outdoors, Easter, Books, Math, Shapes. Visit the Primary Play Facebook page for more ideas and fun!
Sparkle Blog
Ages 2-10 | A roundup of charming and magical crafts, recipes and games for engaging creatively with young kids.*
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DrawingGrab some paper and pencils, pens, or crayons to enjoy these creative doodling, drawing and painting tutorials.
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Art for Kids Hub
Ages 5-8+ | Video art lessons and tutorials, including painting, drawing, sculpting, cutout, origami and more.
Cartooning Club How to Draw
All Ages | 1000+ video tutorials to improve your cartoon drawing skills.
Creative Blog - How to Draw
Upper Ages | Tutorials to teach you how to draw and to sharpen the skills of artists, and budding artists, of all levels and abilities. An extensive collection of how to draw tutorials, covering everything from parts of the human body, to animals, flowers and the environment split into three different themes - animals, people, nature.
Draw Every Day with JKK
Middle & High School | Jarrett J. Krosoczka, best known for his Lunch Lady series of graphic novels, is hosting drawing sessions on his YouTube channel every day. Includes basic illustration techniques, like how to draw a face and its expressions, as well as his anecdotes about growing up as a kid who loved to draw.
Grace Lin - Drawing Tutorials & Readings
All Ages | Grace Lin is an illustrator and author of middle-grade novels and picture books. Learn how to draw a Chinese dragon and a dog starting from the numeral 5 or listen to a reading from “Mulan: Before the Sword." Lin began the reading series in part to fight the “anti-Asian rhetoric” that has come up amid coronavirus fears. “I’ve felt the need to show kids positive representations of Asian-Americans and Asian culture."
Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems
All Ages | Explore creative ways of writing and making with Mo Willems, author, illustrator, Kennedy Center Education Artist-in-Residence.
Quarantine Art Club with Carson Ellis
All Ages | Illustrator Carson Ellis (“Home,” “Du Iz Tak?”) posts prompts such as “is a cat,” “wearing glasses” and “holding a golden scepter” and readers create their own art in response. Results are shared at #QuarantineArtClub.
Ages 5-8+ | Video art lessons and tutorials, including painting, drawing, sculpting, cutout, origami and more.
Cartooning Club How to Draw
All Ages | 1000+ video tutorials to improve your cartoon drawing skills.
Creative Blog - How to Draw
Upper Ages | Tutorials to teach you how to draw and to sharpen the skills of artists, and budding artists, of all levels and abilities. An extensive collection of how to draw tutorials, covering everything from parts of the human body, to animals, flowers and the environment split into three different themes - animals, people, nature.
Draw Every Day with JKK
Middle & High School | Jarrett J. Krosoczka, best known for his Lunch Lady series of graphic novels, is hosting drawing sessions on his YouTube channel every day. Includes basic illustration techniques, like how to draw a face and its expressions, as well as his anecdotes about growing up as a kid who loved to draw.
Grace Lin - Drawing Tutorials & Readings
All Ages | Grace Lin is an illustrator and author of middle-grade novels and picture books. Learn how to draw a Chinese dragon and a dog starting from the numeral 5 or listen to a reading from “Mulan: Before the Sword." Lin began the reading series in part to fight the “anti-Asian rhetoric” that has come up amid coronavirus fears. “I’ve felt the need to show kids positive representations of Asian-Americans and Asian culture."
Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems
All Ages | Explore creative ways of writing and making with Mo Willems, author, illustrator, Kennedy Center Education Artist-in-Residence.
Quarantine Art Club with Carson Ellis
All Ages | Illustrator Carson Ellis (“Home,” “Du Iz Tak?”) posts prompts such as “is a cat,” “wearing glasses” and “holding a golden scepter” and readers create their own art in response. Results are shared at #QuarantineArtClub.
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Arty Factory
Grades 6-12 | Offering lessons on art, design and art appreciation, this website explore a variety of drawing, painting and design techniques across a range of subjects and styles.
Highlights Kids
Ages 6-12 | Explore the many features of the popular Highlights magazine with online games, hands-on activities, kid-friendly readings and more.
Life Story Hub
All Ages | Activities that connect the old and the young through the arts.
Locust Street Art
Ages 4 to senior adult | A community art school in the Fruit Belt of Buffalo, NY providing free & low-cost art classes for any individual, especially youth, low-income and minority individuals to seriously develop the talent and skills necessary to excel in the visual arts. This channel highlights student work and posts art projects for those at home.
Met Kids
Ages 7-12 | Virtually wander the halls of Metropolitan Museum of Art and explore over 5000+ years of art in their interactive timeline and videos.
NGA Kids Art Zone
All Ages | The National Gallery of Art offers computer-based activities about art and art history, featuring a variety of art-making tools that encourage exploration and creativity.
Grades 6-12 | Offering lessons on art, design and art appreciation, this website explore a variety of drawing, painting and design techniques across a range of subjects and styles.
Highlights Kids
Ages 6-12 | Explore the many features of the popular Highlights magazine with online games, hands-on activities, kid-friendly readings and more.
Life Story Hub
All Ages | Activities that connect the old and the young through the arts.
Locust Street Art
Ages 4 to senior adult | A community art school in the Fruit Belt of Buffalo, NY providing free & low-cost art classes for any individual, especially youth, low-income and minority individuals to seriously develop the talent and skills necessary to excel in the visual arts. This channel highlights student work and posts art projects for those at home.
Met Kids
Ages 7-12 | Virtually wander the halls of Metropolitan Museum of Art and explore over 5000+ years of art in their interactive timeline and videos.
NGA Kids Art Zone
All Ages | The National Gallery of Art offers computer-based activities about art and art history, featuring a variety of art-making tools that encourage exploration and creativity.
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Art Resources from the Buffalo State Community
At Home Art Lessons Grades PreK-12 | Under the supervision of Dr. Mary Wolf, Assistant Professor of Art Education at Buffalo State, nine student teachers designed at-home/remote art learning experiences for PK-12 art teachers and students. |