23 of Mrs. K's Favorite Artsy Websites
1. Animated Art Principles: This website animates the principles of art. The visual representation of these principles allows for greater student understanding.
http://www.wildlifeart.org/Rungius/intro_movie.html
2. Build your own Kaleidoscope: This interactive website allows student to choose the shapes, colors and images that will be duplicated within the kaleidoscope.
http://www.zefrank.com/byokal/kal2.html
3. The Collage Machine: This website allows students to combine shapes, photographs and signs. The image can be manipulated through rotation, change in size, or transparency.
http://www.nga.gov/kids/zone/collagemachine.htm
4. The Collage Machine II: This website also allows students to combine images. Numbers, letters, animals, and shapes are featured within the collages. The images can be manipulated through rotation, change in size, or transparency.
http://www.nga.gov/kids/zone/collagemachine2.htm
5. Dreezle Java Paint: This website allows students to stamp, draw, color and paint.
http://www.dreezle.com/
6. Fibers Studio: This website allows students to explore basketry, quilting and weaving.
http://www.handsoncrafts.org/002.htm
7. MOMA – Destination Modern Art: This website allows elementary students to tour the Museum of Modern Art in a fun, interactive way! Games, animation, and sounds enhance this museum tour.
http://www.moma.org/destination/
8. Mr. Picassohead: Students can assemble, color, and manipulate a Picasso inspired face they create on this site. Once finished, students can post their creation in the online gallery.
http://www.mrpicassohead.com/create.html
9. Potter’s Studio: Students can explore the potter’s studio. Face jugs, coil pots, slab methods, and the throwing of clay are presented in a fun, animated way.
http://www.handsoncrafts.org/index.htm
10. The Artist’s Toolkit: Students explore the tools artists use on this interactive website. The elements and principles of art are utilized to build works of art.
http://www.artsconnected.org/toolkit/
11. The Official Eric Carle Website: Eric Carle is one of the most famous and appreciated children’s book authors of our time. His biography, his books, and videos of his methods of creation are featured on this website.
http://www.eric-carle.com/home.html
12. Wallovers: This website allows students to draw symmetrical, repeating patterns on a virtual wall. Colors, sizes, and shapes can be altered to create a tessellating design.
http://www.nga.gov/kids/zone/wallovers.htm
13. Paintbox: This website allows students to alter picture or photo backgrounds. Stokes, symmetry, size, transparency and color can be used to create change to the existing background.
http://www.nga.gov/kids/zone/paintbox.htm
14. Scribbler: This website allows students to draw something on the drawing pad. Once complete, students press the “start scribbler” key. Their drawings transform into scribble, spider webbed versions of the original.
http://www.zefrank.com/scribbler/
15. Albright Knox Art Games: This museum website offers art games for children. Students can explore artworks, create artworks and learn about art through engaging, interactive games.
http://www.albrightknox.org/artgames/index_launched.html
16. Your Mama!: This website is a humorous face animation website. Students animate the eyeballs, eyelids, mouth, and eyebrows of the cartoon face. Once they have recorded their choices, the animation can be played altogether from start to finish.
http://www.zefrank.com/yourmama.html
17. Zoo Alphabet: This alphabet website allows students to choose a letter. That letter then moves to the left the screen where it becomes the beginning letter of an animal. The letters that spell the animal’s name then move about the screen until the letters themselves form the picture of the animal they name.
http://www.bemboszoo.com/Bembo.swf
18. Build Your Wild Self!: This site allows you to create a self-portrait that is a bit on the wild side! You can add tiger stripes, butterfly wings, lizard tail, and much more. Then you can title your work and print it for yourself.
www.buildyourwildself.com
19. Google Art Project: Tour museums throughout the world. Zoom in so close on your favorite works of art that you can see artist’s brushstrokes.
www.googleartproject.com
20. Tagxedo: turn words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning word cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text.
www.tagxedo.com
21. Wordle: a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide.
www.wordle.com
22. Meet me at Midnight in the Smithsonian: A fun, interactive, mystery game tour through the Smithsonian
http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/online/midnight/default_flash.html
23. Build a Mummy!: Ever wonder what steps were taken when the Ancient Egyptians built a mummy?
http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/online/midnight/default_flash.html
1. Animated Art Principles: This website animates the principles of art. The visual representation of these principles allows for greater student understanding.
http://www.wildlifeart.org/Rungius/intro_movie.html
2. Build your own Kaleidoscope: This interactive website allows student to choose the shapes, colors and images that will be duplicated within the kaleidoscope.
http://www.zefrank.com/byokal/kal2.html
3. The Collage Machine: This website allows students to combine shapes, photographs and signs. The image can be manipulated through rotation, change in size, or transparency.
http://www.nga.gov/kids/zone/collagemachine.htm
4. The Collage Machine II: This website also allows students to combine images. Numbers, letters, animals, and shapes are featured within the collages. The images can be manipulated through rotation, change in size, or transparency.
http://www.nga.gov/kids/zone/collagemachine2.htm
5. Dreezle Java Paint: This website allows students to stamp, draw, color and paint.
http://www.dreezle.com/
6. Fibers Studio: This website allows students to explore basketry, quilting and weaving.
http://www.handsoncrafts.org/002.htm
7. MOMA – Destination Modern Art: This website allows elementary students to tour the Museum of Modern Art in a fun, interactive way! Games, animation, and sounds enhance this museum tour.
http://www.moma.org/destination/
8. Mr. Picassohead: Students can assemble, color, and manipulate a Picasso inspired face they create on this site. Once finished, students can post their creation in the online gallery.
http://www.mrpicassohead.com/create.html
9. Potter’s Studio: Students can explore the potter’s studio. Face jugs, coil pots, slab methods, and the throwing of clay are presented in a fun, animated way.
http://www.handsoncrafts.org/index.htm
10. The Artist’s Toolkit: Students explore the tools artists use on this interactive website. The elements and principles of art are utilized to build works of art.
http://www.artsconnected.org/toolkit/
11. The Official Eric Carle Website: Eric Carle is one of the most famous and appreciated children’s book authors of our time. His biography, his books, and videos of his methods of creation are featured on this website.
http://www.eric-carle.com/home.html
12. Wallovers: This website allows students to draw symmetrical, repeating patterns on a virtual wall. Colors, sizes, and shapes can be altered to create a tessellating design.
http://www.nga.gov/kids/zone/wallovers.htm
13. Paintbox: This website allows students to alter picture or photo backgrounds. Stokes, symmetry, size, transparency and color can be used to create change to the existing background.
http://www.nga.gov/kids/zone/paintbox.htm
14. Scribbler: This website allows students to draw something on the drawing pad. Once complete, students press the “start scribbler” key. Their drawings transform into scribble, spider webbed versions of the original.
http://www.zefrank.com/scribbler/
15. Albright Knox Art Games: This museum website offers art games for children. Students can explore artworks, create artworks and learn about art through engaging, interactive games.
http://www.albrightknox.org/artgames/index_launched.html
16. Your Mama!: This website is a humorous face animation website. Students animate the eyeballs, eyelids, mouth, and eyebrows of the cartoon face. Once they have recorded their choices, the animation can be played altogether from start to finish.
http://www.zefrank.com/yourmama.html
17. Zoo Alphabet: This alphabet website allows students to choose a letter. That letter then moves to the left the screen where it becomes the beginning letter of an animal. The letters that spell the animal’s name then move about the screen until the letters themselves form the picture of the animal they name.
http://www.bemboszoo.com/Bembo.swf
18. Build Your Wild Self!: This site allows you to create a self-portrait that is a bit on the wild side! You can add tiger stripes, butterfly wings, lizard tail, and much more. Then you can title your work and print it for yourself.
www.buildyourwildself.com
19. Google Art Project: Tour museums throughout the world. Zoom in so close on your favorite works of art that you can see artist’s brushstrokes.
www.googleartproject.com
20. Tagxedo: turn words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning word cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text.
www.tagxedo.com
21. Wordle: a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide.
www.wordle.com
22. Meet me at Midnight in the Smithsonian: A fun, interactive, mystery game tour through the Smithsonian
http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/online/midnight/default_flash.html
23. Build a Mummy!: Ever wonder what steps were taken when the Ancient Egyptians built a mummy?
http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/online/midnight/default_flash.html