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This category lists art-related sites appropriate for children and teenagers. It includes sites that are designed to help young people increase their appreciation for the arts, expand their knowledge of the arts, and develop their own artistic abilities.

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Resources in This Category

• American Folklife Center's Collections and Special Presentations

  http://www.loc.gov/folklife/onlinecollections.html
  An amazing collection of folk music, stories, photographs, and traditional artwork from across America.

• Aol. Kids Creative Games

  http://kids.aol.com/games/creative-games/
  Online coloring, designing, drawing, music and fashion games.

• ArtisanCam

  http://www.artisancam.org.uk/
  Combines interactive activities with games, workshops and video footage of artists at work.

• Artissimo

  http://www.gallery.ca/en/learn/artissimo.php
  Simple games and a gallery of art and stories created at the Artissimo kiosk in the National Gallery of Canada.

• Arts Alive

  http://www.artsalive.ca/
  The National Arts Centre of Canada presents music, dance, and English and French theatre. In English and French.

• BlackDog

  http://blackdog4kids.com/
  Kids free on-line games, puzzles, mazes, screen savers, stories, postcards, and holiday fun.

• Blast

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/blast/
  A BBC initiative encouraging 13-19 year olds throughout the UK to get involved in dance, film, art and music.

• Chateau Meddybemps

  http://www.meddybemps.com/
  You'll meet amusing characters, try some fun learning activities, read original stories, and encounter some pretty humorous ideas.

• Creative Art Space for Kids

  http://www.creativeartspaceforkids.org/
  Features children's art work from CASK, children's art exhibitions, and art classes.

• Fairy Godmother

  http://www.fairygodmother.com/
  Wishes and stories about how to make ordinary moments magical.

• Funology

  http://www.funology.com/
  Offers lots of fun, creative activities, games, jokes, and trivia.

• Get to Know

  http://www.get-to-know.org/
  Nature art contest for youth (kindergarten - grade 12) to go outside (or to a zoo, aquarium, or museum), and then to share their experience with the world by creating an original work of art, photography, or writing.

• HaringKids.Com

  http://www.haringkids.com/
  Interactive activities designed to inspire a love of learning and art.

• KidLit

  http://kid-lit.net/
  Allows kids to share their original artwork and writings online.

• Kids Who Care

  https://www.kidswhocare.org/
  An international performing arts organization that provides training in theatre, dance, music, and art. Site includes information on classes, camps, and touring company.

• KidsPsych

  http://www.kidspsych.org/
  Games and activities, offers a maze, online coloring and games, fun with shapes, I Spy, plus cute animations and sounds.

• KidsWorld

  http://www.artsmia.org/kidsworld/
  Games and a coloring page based on works of art.

• Mount Spressmore - CYKE

  http://www.cyke.com/artcave.swf
  Provides a playground for kids where they can find art galleries and submit works of art that will be added to the "Art Cave."

• National Gallery of Art NGAkids

  http://www.nga.gov/kids/
  Includes interactive discussions of paintings and sculpture in the National Gallery of Art, educational activities, and an animated musical story.

• Notebook

  http://www.noteaccess.com/
  Offers visual arts and art history references and resources.

• The White Boxer Chronicles

  http://www.wtboxers.com/
  The photographic adventures of two real white boxers, Charles-Clyde and Mavis. Includes holiday fun, projects, coloring pages, calendar, and boxer cartoons.

• The Zinglers

  http://zinglers.com/
  Offers stories, music, color pages, and online activities.

• Web Gallery of Art

  http://www.wga.hu/
  Virtual museum of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1100-1800). With commentaries on pictures, biographies of artists, and guided tours.

• Women Artists in Canada

  http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/women/index-e.html
  Works of women artists in diverse media, plus biographical information about the artists, essays, and a bibliography.

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