Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Family: Make Believe Box
In this story, a family has fun gathering things for a make-believe box. Includes audio narration in 9 additional languages with text in English.
Tate
Tate Online: Case of the Mysterious Object
A clever and compelling interactive introduction to art appreciation and visual literacy. Parent and child or older child/younger child can pair up to solve an art gallery mystery. The object of this activity is to answer questions about...
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Family Art Guides
Even if you are miles away from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, these four-page downloadable family guides to the museum's collections make wonderful tools for teaching interesting things about art to children. Full-page illustrations...
Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Kids Web Japan: Let's Try Origami
Animated step-by-step instructions show how to make a paper airplane. Colorful graphics make it easy for even very young learners to follow along with this fun paper-folding activity.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Arts and Humanities: Art of Asia
A landing page for a course on the art history of Asia.
Children's Discovery Museum
Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose: Impressionist Bubbles
Go on a bubbly adventure and make some creative art.
National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts: Introduce Young Children to the Arts [Pdf]
Age-appropriate art activities designed to foster the imaginative powers and arts awareness of your children, ages 3 to 8.
Other
Avalon Arts Studio: Art Recipes
Simple recipes for craft material favorites cookless playdough, flubber, faux snow, and goop. The recipes are simple enough to make with children, and they (and you) will have great fun playing with the finished products.
Staten Island Children's Museum
Staten Island Children's Museum: Arty Camp at Home
Outdoor art activities for families to do together.
Children's Discovery Museum
Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose: Make a Cardboard Train
Show off your artistic skills by creating your own cardboard train using recyclable materials in your home.
Children's Discovery Museum
Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose: Egg to Go
Activity is based on Dr. Seuss's book, Horton Hatches the Egg. Decide on how you would keep your egg safe by devising an eggcellent carrier.
Children's Discovery Museum
Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose: Create a Shaker Percussion Instrument
Percussion instruments produce sound through vibration, so if you hit, scrape, rub, or shake the instrument, it makes a sound. Making your very own shaker to accompany your song is easy.
Children's Discovery Museum
Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose: Color Blending Top
Put a new spin on blending colors by creating your own spinning top. Mix colors through motion and make this optical illusion spring to life.
Children's Discovery Museum
Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose: Skele Fun With Skeletons!
Did you know that you have a skeleton inside your hand? Wiggle your fingers, can you feel the bones? What if you could see them too? Use colorful paint to draw your bones on your hand. It takes a lot of tiny bones to help our amazing...
Children's Discovery Museum
Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose: Fingerprint Art Bookmark
In this activity, you will make some fingerprint art into a bookmark, whether it's for yourself or a unique gift for a special person in your life!
Children's Discovery Museum
Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose: Nature Sculptures
Have you ever wanted to make your own sculpture? You can use materials readily available in your garden, neighborhood, and local park to design a nature sculpture.
Other
Staten Island Children's Museum: Bugs and Other Arthropods [Pdf]
Here are some fun family projects to do at home involving bugs.