Studio Arts

Updated on March 9, 2017

Studio Arts include things you paint, draw, sculpt, mold or build. This section provides students of all grade levels with a variety of interactive tools and references to express their artistry and to share it with others.

CultureStreet Art

Get inspired by the artists and techniques illustrated on Culture Street, designed for kids ages 9-11.  View video workshops on textile printing, digital photography, pottery, drawing, sculpture, jewelry and screen printing.  Learn from the examples of a broad range of…

Artsonia Student Art Museum

Billing itself as “the largest student art gallery on the web,” Artsonia provides inspiration and recognition to K-12 students for their artwork.  This online museum houses millions of works submitted by teachers of their students’ pieces.  You can browse the…

Origami Resource Center

From site: This origami resource center provides information about the art of paper folding. We provide links to diagrams, databases, book reviews, and ways to be a part of the paper folding community. In Japanese, the word “ori” means “to…

Artwork by Teens

Teen Ink has a website with artwork created by teens.  You can view and submit works in charcoal, computer graphics, oil paintings, pastels, pen & ink, photographs, photo illustrations, sculptures, watercolors, woodcuts, and others.

Make Your Own Pop-Ups

Robert Sabuda, a well-known author of pop-up books, offers instructions for creating your own pop-up art on his website. The projects outlined in green are simple, those in blue are intermediate, and those in red are advanced. Making pop-up books…

Learn Drawing for Kids

Learn how to draw with these step-by-step drawing lessons for kids. The lessons teach children how draw cartoon animals. Each lesson will have 15 or more steps to greatly simplify the drawing process. There are more than 30 cartoons to…

MetKids Create

Metropolitan Museum of Arts’ MetKids, has a section of videos to guide children through the process of creating their own artwork. Some of the projects include: Flipbooks, Scratch Art, Collages, Clay Pots, Symmetrical Prints, and Paper Silhouettes. The instructors are…

Haring Kids Interactive Coloring Book

Make your own Keith Haring drawing and color it online.  Create a picture using Haring’s most familiar characters.  Have your friends or parents join in.  Learn more about Keith Haring and how he created his artwork.  Lesson plans and activity…

ArtGames

Artgames has playful, interactive art activities centered on the works of art in the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York.  The activities are designed for children ages 5-12, with guided instructions in English or Spanish. Play with colors in the…

Phototropism

From site:  Create sculptures that react like plants to weather conditions!  Artists are already using materials like shape memory alloys that react to environmental changes in their work.  In the future artists will be able to make entire sculptures that…

Mr. Picasso Head

Kids can create their own works of art in the style of Pablo Picasso using Mr. Picassohead.  Choose face shape, features, size, color and other abstract objects.  Sign, save and email your completed masterpiece.

Toy Theater Art

Toy Theater Art offers kids several interactives for exploring art.  They can doodle, add paper cutouts to Matisse’s masterpieces to create their own works of art, make a quilt pattern, and create and print masks.

Thisissand

Thisissand.com is an interactive digital sandbox and two-dimensional sand sculpting landscape tool. Kids can use it to create Clemens-style sand paintings, mandalas and so on. You can save your artwork to the gallery or print it out.  Instructions for using…

Artopia Painting and Sculpture

In the Painting and Sculpture studios, learn how to make a sculpture or painting.  Learn how to look at works of art and become an art critic.  Meet famous artists.  Create an online portfolio of your own artwork. Teachers resources include…

Artist’s Toolkit

Learn about how visual elements and principles like line, color and shape are used as tools to build works of art. To do so Watch an animated demonstration Find examples of the concept in works of art from museums Create…