As we welcome our students back to school for this quarantine school year, we have to adapt how we teach creatively. I have compiled a list of 40 websites that you can use as supplemental resources for your students to keep them engaged in your virtual art classroom. 

1. Crayola Monster Mixer This is a fun website geared toward kids developed by Crayola. There are multiple art activities and games for elementary students to play. The Monster Mixer is my favorite; it allows students to make their own monster coloring pages.

2. Art Puzzles  If you are looking for a quick time filler, send your kids to do some art puzzles which features paintings by famous artists.

3. Tate Paint This is a very user friendly program for kids to let them paint in their web browser.

4. Street Art The Tate Museum has this fabulous paint engine on their website that lets kids spray paint. The Tate Museum also has a wonderful selection of engaging videos and art lessons on their website. I encourage you to check it out.

5. Quick, Draw This is a really fun engine that will keep your students engaged for hours. Students have 20 seconds to draw and let the computer artificial intelligence guess what it is.

6. Auto Draw This platform is a bit more dynamic than  ‘Quick, Draw’, its artificial intelligence sister. Students draw what they would like and the program transforms their drawings into vector based computer graphics. It is fun to play with and provides a lot of clever imagination! 

7. Pixil Art  is still one of my favorites and my students are obsessed with it. Students have the opportunity to paint their own pixel art from scratch. It includes a bunch of different tools for kids to fiddle around with. I have to admit, even as an adult I find this very entertaining. 

8. Kelidescope If you are trying to teach symmetry or have introduced your students to mandalas, your students will have a lot of fun with it. 

9. Intelaware is a fun website if your students want to play around with abstraction. What I like about this website is that it provides options for symmetry and it is also very visually stimulating to work with.

10. Rock Art If you teach little ones PBS offers some really nice resources including pattern and color games. The rock art game is one of my favorites. 

11. Symmetry Painter is another great resource on PBS’s website.

12. Nature Art Box I think that this game can be fun for kids to play with. The only thing that I do not like about it is that each step features an annoying ‘loading’ page which could be frustrating for students.

13. Sand Art Spectacular  lets your little ones play with symmetry through sand.

14. Nature Sketch Pad Out of the two nature related games on PBS, this is probably the best.

15. Tessellate If your students are learning about MC Escher, this site is worth checking out. My only criticism of it however is that it is not very user friendly and will probably require some guided direction.

16. Beautiful Curves My students, and even my teaching assistants, seem to really like this one. The fun organic vines are really unique to the site.

17. Color with Leo This is a cute resource for your little ones. It has several interactive sketch pads and games for your students to play with.

18. Color by Number is very much so more fun and less academic but you may have some students enjoy it.

19. Relaxing Coloring is another color-by-number website to check out.

20. Giffy Have your students create their own gifs (animated photos) using Giffy. This would be an appropriate option for middle and high school.

21. Paint Online This is a simple paint website that your students will find easy to use.

22. Bomono Scribbler Your more techy students will enjoy this one. Drawing on it works on an algorithm that students can play with.

23. Collage Builder is definitely one of my favorites! It is simple to use but lets your students create some really dynamic collages in their web browsers.

24. Picasso Head is another one of my favorites. Students can play around and make their own Picasso portraits!

25. Jackson Pollock Painting this probably is not the best website out there but it is straight forward and on it, anyone can be a Jackson Pollock.

26. Keith Haring Kids There are a few different resources on this website for both students and teachers. Lesson plans and games celebrating Keith Haring can be found here.

27. Virtual MET Tour Take your students on a virtual trip to The Metropolitan Museum of Art!

28. Scribbler is another vector style program. Students can actually make some really sophisticated artworks on here. This is appropriate for all grade levels.

29. Paper Critters is for students who like to do more hands-on projects. Students can print out a paper animals and fold and glue them together.

30. Sesame Street Art Maker is a creative program offered by Sesame Street that is appropriate for your little ones.

31. Pixel Art 3D This is a fun one for your students who like Minecraft or Roblox. 

32. Paper Sculptures If you have students who like to do more hands-on projects, this is a cool option. Students can print out a paper animals, famous monuments, and other fun things and fold and glue the paper into three-dimensional paper sculptures.

33. Make A Meme When I was teaching exclusively high school, I had my students make memes as part of their warm-up activities on a few occassions. I could not decide if my students or I had more fun with it. I had my students create memes based upon famous artworks of their choosing. The results were hilarious.

34. Spin
Art 

is yet another one of Tate’s interactive games on their website.

35. Keith
Haring Coloring 

This is my favorite activity featured on the Keith Haring Foundation website. Students can hilariously create their own Keith Haring artworks.

36. SketchUp
3D Modeling (for advanced students) 

For your more gifted students, consider sending your students to SketchUp. This is a program owned by Google that offers free 30 day trials. Students can become architects by designing their own computer modeled buildings. 

37. Animate This is an amazing resource for art teachers wanting to teach animation. The visual interface is very easy for kids of all ages to use.

38. Virtual Tour of the Louvre Take your kids on a virtual field trip to the Louvre! See the Mona Lisa hung up on the wall as if you were standing in the same room in Paris as her. This exhibition features three large exhibitions to explore. 

39. Google Arts & Culture If you have never used Google Arts and Culture before in your art classroom, you have been missing out. This is an absolutely fabulous resource for teachers. On it you can find 360° tours of major museums all around the world, explore famous artists, paintings, and collections. You will even find some history resources and articles on it.

40. Virtual Tour of the British Museum Send your students on yet another field trip to the British Museum. Explore thousands of years of history and art on the website’s unique three-dimensional timeline that students can click on and explore. Connect it with one of your lessons to make it even more dynamic for learning. To find a listing of other museums that you can explore virtually, I recommend checking out a listing on this website.