Arts and Crafts Resources

Links verified 02-23-11

1. Animal, Bugs, and Creature Craft Projects - Try these family projects from the About Network.
2. Animal Crafts - There are many categories from which to choose amazing craft projects.
3. Animal Crafts - This site has several pages of crafts and includes pictures of steps.
4. Art Activities - Ideas for art activities.
5. Art Ideas for Kids - Directions for many projects.
6. Bendable Magnetic Animals and People - Build bendable, fuzzy magnetic animals and people; simple to make and great to play with later - Remember to keep all magnets away from computers.
7. Color Online at Enchanted Learning Animals whose names start with A, click on another letter to go to some other part of this index.
8. Coloring Activities Page - from Lil' Fingers.
9. Coloring Pages - Color online with your mouse. Just click on start coloring! Over 100 pictures to choose from.
10. Craft Recipes - Make your own paint, clay, paste and more!
11. Crayon Resist Fall Leaves - A Kindergarten - 1st Grade art lesson. When the leaves your students create are dry, hang them together on a huge painted tree. The tree will look great and kids love to see all their leaves form one tree.
12. DLTK's Crafts for Kids - Crafts from household items and printables such as cards, bookmarks, birthday banners, name tags and others.
13. Easy Printmaking in the Classroom - The introduction of printmaking on Styrofoam is a cheap and easy way to initiate the process for all ages.
14. Egyptian Profile Portraits - A grade 2 art lesson. Students create portraits in the style of the Egyptians.
15. Elementary Art Lessons - Over 60 lessons, some with really great names; Emotion Commotion, Critters & Complementary Colours and Pitchy Patch Puppet to name a few.
16. First Palette - Fun,educational art activities, very visual, easy-to-follow, and includes supporting resources.
17. FreeCrafts - Craft sites for children that need something creative to do!
18. Harold and the Purple Crayon - Drawing activity, similar to the popular KidPix.
19. How to Draw (for Kids) - These step-by-step drawing exercises are designed for children. (35 currently listed - mostly animals)
20. KidzClub - In the Crafts area you will find quite a few printable activities.
21. Mix and Paint with Curious George - Select a picture, mix colors of paint and color the picture
22. Mr. Picassohead - Create your own face drawing like that by Picasso .
23. On-Line Coloring Pages - Drag colors from the palette to the outline drawing, kids can try to match a small thumbnail drawing or use their own creativity.
24. Paint By Number - The Art of "Pieceful" Imaging - Color by number in the digital age! Select a picture from the Easy section and enlarge it with the magnifier at the bottom if necessary. This activity is good for number recognition and mouse skills.
25. Pretend Picnic - A Teacher's Corner activity based on: Arthur's Cousin Catastrophe from PBS. You can also find a list of online games and an index of art activities .
26. Zoo Crafts for Kids - Roll the mouse over categories to see examples - from the San Diego Zoo.

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