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Arkansas Arts Center Museum of Art, Children Theater
The Arkansas Arts Center Museum of Art collection is noted for drawings from the Renaissance to the present and craft objects including teapots, baskets, and toys designed by artists. Thumbnails that include detailed information on the...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: World Cultures Collection
Explore the world with PBS LearningMedia! This collection focuses on food, folktales, and other aspects of cultural heritage. With your class, hear stories, play through situations, and learn how to make crafts from cultures near and far.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Sesame Street
Do you know how to get to Sesame Street? This collection is designed to engage preschoolers in everyday learning by teaching core skills in Math, Literacy, STEM, and Social and Emotional Development. Here you'll find hundreds of videos,...
Art Cyclopedia
Artcyclopedia: The Arts and Crafts Movement
Artcyclopedia gives a brief history of the Arts and Crafts Movement, focusing on William Morris and artists working for the William Morris Company.
Museum of Modern Art
Mo Ma: Stencil Portraits
The Museum of Modern Art presents this classroom or group activity for making stencil portraits. Requires Adobe Reader. [PDF]
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Up to Ten: Make an Insect Kite
"Make a giant insect kite that you'll be able to fly around your garden or the local park."
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Silicon Valley Art Museum: New Clothes: Self Portrait Lesson With Crayon Rubbing
Silicon Valley Art Museum presents this printable pdf activity "New Clothes: Self-Portrait Lesson with Crayon Rubbing" which teaches the technique of making rubbings.
Other
The Toymaker
Dozens of beautiful paperfolding toys for you and your students to try. Just print, cut, fold, and glue. Many would work well with class themes including animals, flowers, and holidays.
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National Gallery, London: Take One Picture Craft, Design & Technology
Some exciting ideas from the National Gallery in London on incorporating various crafts into a fun art lesson.
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Doll Classes and Craft Classes Online Crafty College
This site offers on-line classes on many different types of doll making. It has close up pictures and a name for each doll. You can view the dolls for free,but must sign up for a class to get full details on how to make it.
Other
Primera Escuela: First School
A diverse variety of fun activities for toddlers, preschoolers and kindergarteners. Among other subjects you'll find: alphabet, animals, holidays and events, coloring pages (for fairy tales, holidays, vocabulary, etc.) crafts and more....
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Ocean Crafts
Colorful examples and directions are given for ocean crafts designed for kindergarten and elementary school children.
Native American Art and Technology
Native Tech: Native American Technology and Art
Informational site discusses the technology of Native American crafts and the meaning of those crafts. Touches on everything from pottery to clothing.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Mangbetu
The Mangbetu live in the northeastern corner of Zaire. They are the founders of one of the few centralized political systems in Central Africa. The Mangbetu achieved a very high level of technological and material development, as...
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Arts and Crafts
This encyclopedia article from Wikipedia details how the term "arts and crafts" came into existence and lists a wealth of links to other encyclopedia articles on different types of arts and crafts. Links are provided for additional...
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Family Collage Craft
Children can make a great family collage by cutting out pictures of family members and gluing them to poster board. Older kids can write descriptions to accompany their collage.
Other
California Museum: Discover: Fun With Crafts: State Symbols of California
Instructions and templates for creating the state symbols of California out of paper and other easy-to-find materials.
Other
Doll Making: Find Free Doll Making Patterns
This site provides links to pages that provide free patterns for doll making.
Other
Legends & Lore: It's All About Puppets
This Legends and Lore site offers fun and entertaining crafts activities involving the making of puppets.