Baby Art
All cultures throughout history have produced art, although the forms vary by both culture and historical era. The impulse to create, to realize form and order out of mere matter, is universal and perpetual. Such artwork can include visual art, literature, music, dance, and other forms. Children's arts, be they games, music, or stories, are the arts of everyone. Most contemporary readers understand that both our lives and our literature are shaped by the shifting dynamics of many factors -- especially race, ethnicity, class, gender, nationality and cultural differences. The links offered on this page should attract even the youngest devotees of the arts.
Centrum, Israel: Violin Making Guide
Learn the steps in making a violin from this master violin maker. Ask your folks to help you read it, then listen to violin and cello music.
Crafts 4 Kids: Easy Tatting Guide
Tasks like tatting can improve children's hand-eye coordination, while giving the child great pride in the result. Make lace a fast, fun way.
Early Childhood: Harvest Art Guide
Gardener's kids and children's craft groups, learn to use leftover harvest items, such as gourds, to create animals and other artistic objects.
Early Childhood: Magnet Art Guide
Playing with magnetism creatively: Kids dip metal objects in paint and then use magnets to move them around and create their masterpiece.
Early Childhood: Make Your Own Stickers
Kids love stickers, as any mother who's scraped them off the furniture knows. Learn to make your own stickers and special "sticker glue".
Early Childhood: Snow Painting Guide
This clever and effective technique allows even the youngest child to use salt crystals and paint to create the effect of snow on paintings.
Early Childhood: Udder Art Guide
Spread out that big plastic dropcloth, and have a ball; let the kids make a fake udder with rubber gloves and "milk" the paint onto the paper.
Inky Fingers: Antique Phonograph Gallery
This site has a wonderful collection of pictures of old phonographs and other neat items. A great place to find old images for a collage.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California: Kandinsky Art Exhibit
An exhibit of this modern artist’s works, from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.. The text is hard to read, but the pictures are great.
Museum of Southeast Texas: Oil Patch Dreams Exhibit
An exhibit from the Museum of Southeast Texas, featuring sixty pieces by famous artists which illustrate and illuminate the Oil industry.
Skinnamarink Television Spinner
Enter the fun world of Canadian Public TV. Play the Skinnamarink puzzle game by pushing the big red button. Game teaches matching of shapes.
Time Warner Corporation: Warner Brothers: Looney Tunes Karaoke Guide
Hey, who says cartoons aren’t art? Let your young ones sing along with this Looney Tunes karaoke, and learn the words to all the songs.
University of California, San Diego: They Still Draw Pictures
This remarkable collection offers more than six hundred drawings which were created by Spanish school children, during the Spanish Civil War.