Tate Kids

Take a look at the games and activities on Tate Kids. You can watch videos about art and send in your own work. Get inspired to create art work in the style of famous artists.

Google Arts and Culture

Explore museums from around the world and zoom in on artworks at incredible zoom levels.

Art UK

The UK's national collection of oil paintings. Discover over 200,000 artworks from 3,000 venues.

Coins in the Classroom

Explore the world of coins, their history, design and manufactures. Each lesson pack, designed for classrooms in England and Wales, comes complete with teachers’ notes, lesson plans, fact files, worksheets and whiteboard resource.

Artyfactory - the online Art and Design workshop

Artyfactory offers free art lessons on African masks, Egyptian art and hieroglyphs, pencil portraits, perspective drawing, logo design and colour theory.

Starfall Art Gallery

A delightful site for Key Stage 1 pupils about six famous artists and their work. It also promotes reading skills. There are literacy exercises. A good non-fiction text. More detailed biographies for Key Stage 2 pupils.

Landscape Van Gogh Style

The site discusses the techniques that Van Gogh used on a featured landscape painting and then you can make a picture yourself in his style. It lends itself well to an interactive whiteboard and there is an option to download the site to your hard drive.

How to Draw - Step by Step lessons and Videos

Tips and techniques for improving your drawing. It looks at cartoon drawing, drawing faces, perspective and more.

Primary Art

Step-by-step instructions on video how to create themed pictures. Great ideas which you can put together to make murals or use on their own. Designed by the BBC for children between 9 and 11 years, but ideas could be used by younger children.

Smarthistory

Smarthistory is an engaging free multi-media web book about art history for use in art history courses. A definite enhancement to the traditional art history textbook!