Use your laptop to create cool art online. Be sure to send me a copy, link or snippet of your creation with your first and last name and homeroom teacher for our gallery!
Tate Kids
British based art games, creating and tutorials. Interactive facility to create your own street art. It also includes a number of other artistic games, with added art history education along the way, and the ability to create your own gallery choosing favourite works from the Tate collection, or allowing children to upload their own work to share with the world.
Artisancam
http://www.artisancam.org.uk/
Includes a whole range of art and craft activities. There are games to create your own pop art and cartoon art, a children’s book to create, and lots of other entertaining online creative activities.
Within Artiscam:
http://www.culturestreet.org.uk/activities/superactioncomicmaker/
Comic strip template and designing
Wordle
http://www.wordle.net/
An online facility for creating Word Art in the form of word clouds.
Haring Kids
Keith Haring coloring page that you make
Culture Street
http://www.culturestreet.org.uk/
Create a simple scribble, and then sit back and watch it ‘develop’ further – it’s quite entertaining to see what’s created from your original scribble.
How to Draw Tutorials - basic
http://artprojectsforkids.org/category/view-by-theme/drawing-tutorials/
Simple step by steps instructionals
Canvastic
http://canvastic.net/net.html
Another simple online drawing tool.
Bomomo
http://bomomo.com/
A more advanced drawing and composition tool.
Studio Ludens
http://www.studioludens.com/repper/lite/
This online application allows you to create your own repeating patterns, good for backgrounds, collaging, etc..
Google Cultural Institute
https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/u/0/project/art-project
Google Cultural Institute. Discover exhibits and collections from museums and archives all around the world. Explore cultural treasures in extraordinary detail, from hidden gems to masterpieces.