While the web is full of action, mystery and role playing games, there is also plenty of art for your child to become engaged in. Online you can find art lessons, coloring pages, and even art galleries that your child can put his/her artwork in too. These games and activities are perfect for rain and snowy days and also useful ideas for groups of children as well.
For Crayola fans, there is a website that offers plenty of fun for the little ones and also even some tips for parents too. At the Crayola website, there are plenty of coloring pages for the kids to enjoy for long car rides, parties, sick days or just those bad weather days. Some of the categories that are offered to print pages from include Disney, cars and trucks, holidays, learning, seasons and cut and color activities. Also available is a certificate maker and E-card maker too. Teachers can also find curriculum and lesson plan ideas all the way up to grade twelve and also early child development. Crayola lesson plans could also assist those who home-school their children. There is a section devoted to parents to help inspire them with ideas for parties, crafts and travel. Top games for children to play online at the Crayola website include Rainbow the Spouting Trout, Fireworks Spectacular and Vehicle Mixer.
At TheKidzPage website, there are more fun coloring pages available for your child. There are online “coloring books” that your child can choose to a page from. Some of the coloring books that are available are people, Easter, creatures, vehicles, fun stuff and birds. If you would rather not print out a page, some of the coloring books even offer online coloring. To color online, you pick your tip size for your brush, the color you would like to use and then use the mouse to fill color in the lines. Some of the activities available to print and do online are word searches, anagrams, mazes and crossword puzzles. If you are in search of a free clip-art images, there is also over 2,000 images to download that you can use on websites, cards, flyers or anything else you may need clip-art for. Clip-art categories that you can choose images from include animals, alphabet, computers, birds and flowers.
Kids who are interested in drawing will benefit from the step by step art lessons at the artistshelpingchildren.org website. Children can learn how to draw their favorite cartoon characters like SpongeBob or Alvin and the Chipmunks. Other lessons include drawing a cartoon baby, baby chicken, birds, cats, dogs, fish and lighthouses. Future crafters can even learn how to make jewelry, book covers, Bible crafts and crafts from cereal boxes.
So if you are looking to inspire your little future artist, find craft projects or art lessons or ways to help your child learn more about art, there are plenty of websites available that will help. Art can inspire children to use their imagination, put their creativity to work and bring culture to their lives.