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Learning Center
Many people ask us about art and child-related resources in their neighborhood. Below are links to places we have heard about. If you know of any great resources that are not listed here (and we're sure there are many!), please email us with your suggestion at program@icaf.org.
Art and Child-related Resources - Local, National and International
- CANADA
- National Gallery of Canada
- Children and Family Activities
- UNITED STATES
- All Art Schools
- Students can use our free comprehensive database of U.S. art schools to search for everything from associate's to doctoral degrees in over 50 business-related concentrations, including painting, theatre, music and art history.
- Americans for the Arts, DC and New York
- General art information for parents and teachers
- Arthby's, Pennsylvania
- Artistic kids' personal galleries
- Art Resources
- Art resources from the U.S Department of Education
- Arty Facts, Georgia
- Art, animation, fun and games for kids and teachers
- The Creative Oasis, Pennsylvania
- Summer art camp for children
- Dib Dab Doo and Dilly too search engine
- A smarter, safer way for children to surf the internet
- Haring Kids, New York
- Interactive fun for kids and lesson plans for teachers
- Long Lake Camp for the Arts, New York
- Arts summer camp for children
- MN ASAP Cultural Camps, Minnesota
- Children's Cultural Camps
- MOCHA, California
- Museum of Children's Art
- MoMA Art Safari, New York
- Exploring art and animals for kids
- National Gallery of Art, DC
- NGA kids
- Reach Every Child
- Site of educational resources for teachers and students developed by Horace Mann and nationally recognized teacher, Alan Haskvitz.
- Young at Arts Summer Camp, Florida
- Summer art camp for children
- INDONESIA
- Gallery of Indonesian Children's Art
- Children's art from Indonesia
- JAPAN
- World School Galleries
- This site displays student art on the web, from students around the world.
- EUROPE (cross-country)
- European Youth Parliament, Europe
- The EYP is an international, non-partisan organisation which seeks to increase young people's awareness of European issues, and provide a truly unique educational experience. In English and French.
- LIECHTENSTEIN
- International Music and Art Foundation, Liechtenstein
- Foundation for the advancement of arts
- UNITED KINGDOM
- Imaginate Children's Festival, Scotland
- Bank of Scotland's Children's Arts Festival
- The Art Newspaper
- Coverage of international developments in the art world
- The Art School and Program Directory
- Directory of arts-related schools
- D'Art The Internet Art Database
- Websites to help people find and research art
- Global Children's Art Gallery
- Global children's art from around the world
- Grove Dictionary of Art
- Extensive resource of articles, bibliographies, biographies, and art images on every aspect of the visual arts from prehistory to the present day (Requires subscription, free trial available)
- Home School Arts
- Art resources for parents who teach their kids at home
- International Children's Institute
- Children's stories and art from around the world
- International Society for Technology in Education
- Wide array of art educator resources, including curriculum, lesson plans and assessment tools. Organized by subject category.
- Kids Space
- A fun place for kids by kids
- PaPa iNk International Children's Art
- Global children's art from around the world
Links to other fun activities on the web
Pictograms!
In art, we share our ideas with pictures, or images. "Talking" with images instead of words makes it easy for people from many different parts of the world to understand what we say, even if we all speak a different language.
Because it's easy for people who speak different langauges to understand pictures, the organizers of the Olympics use special pictures, called "pictograms", to tell everyone about the different sport activities.
Have a look at some of the pictograms at these links, and then try coming up with your own!
Virtual Worlds
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An interactive kid's world: KidsPsych! For ages 1-9.
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It's a kid's world! Have fun in this virtual toybox for kids.
Mind Games and Interactive Activities
- Simon Says Follow Simon -- Follow the pattern of lights and sounds for as long as you can.
- Personal Art How do you see yourself and other people? Pick different pieces to create a face! (art therapy)
- Puzzled An online jigsaw puzzle.
- FBI - Kids and Youth A few FBI-themed games for kids.
- Pauly's Playhouse This site is full of fun games to play and crazy cartoons that you can watch!
- Bad Apple An updated version of the game "Minesweeper." Click on the good apples -- but avoid the bad ones!
- Korean folktales Coloring from LG Worldwide.
- Art, animation, fun and games from the Telfair Museum of Art of Savannah, Georgia (explore different museum objects)
- Letter Lasso Find the words hidden in the grid of letters.
- A Game a day Fun and challenging word games and puzzles for ages 9-99. If you like challenges and puzzlers, you'll love this site!
- Mahjongg The ancient Oriental game.
- "How does it feel" What are your emotions when you hear a word like "butterfly" or a phrase like "driving a car"? What's in your mind when you hear these words? "How Does It Feel" is an interactive and experimental online project. On this site you can leave your emotions, that are combined with specific words. And you can read the emotions of others.
Idea Box: Tools to get you thinking creatively!
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BrainyKids: Games, lab experiments, and lesson plans about the brain for kids, teachers, and parents
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Try these challenging games to spark your creativity.
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Learn how to create really amazing art with crayons! Try out Crayon Art Techniques by Jeffrey Roberts.
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Go on an Art Safari... ooooooh..! By the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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Get to know some works of art and with these online activities. By the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
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Parents and teachers: check out the art lesson plans on this site - www.kinderart.com
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Lots of links to other kid-friendly sites - www.surfnetkids.org
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Sand animation - creating temporary art out of sand (video, requires Windows Media Player)
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