Arts Free
for kids
Explore 13 trusted free arts resources selected for curious kids, with clear ages, access details, and parent context.
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Smithsonian Distance Learning Resources
Smithsonian Learning Lab brings museum collections, lessons, educator collections, caregiver guides, and grade-linked resources together for online learning.
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National Children’s Museum STEAMwork
National Children’s Museum’s STEAMwork presents short activity videos that invite children and families to explore science, technology, engineering, art, and math through playful projects.
JiggyJoy
JiggyJoy is a free kids site with browser games, printable coloring pages, worksheets, and age-organized math, literacy, creativity, and space activities.
Poetry Foundation Educators
The Poetry Foundation’s educator hub offers poem guides, teaching articles, student-facing poetry materials, videos, and classroom ideas.
Smithsonian Educator Resources
The Smithsonian Institution’s educator hub connects teachers and families with learning resources, collections, lesson materials, and Smithsonian programs across subjects.
Tiny Players
Tiny Players is a free browser library of learning, puzzle, typing, math, science, reading, art, music, and nature games for children, with printable activities and age/grade browsing.
Columbus Museum of Art Educator Resources
Columbus Museum of Art offers creativity frameworks, young-child studio resources, K–12 activity plans and ARTful Reading lesson plans.
National Gallery of Art Teaching Resources
The National Gallery of Art provides free teaching resources, lesson units and Art Tales materials that help educators and families explore art with children from early learning through secondary school.
Smithsonian American Art Museum K–12 Resources
Smithsonian American Art Museum teacher guides and resources use works of art to support K–12 classroom learning, discussion and cross-curricular connections.
The New Children’s Museum Educator Resources
The New Children’s Museum offers lesson plans and school-visit resources supporting creative learning and arts education.
Art Institute of Chicago Ryan Learning Center
The Art Institute of Chicago’s Ryan Learning Center offers family activities, collection exploration, art-making prompts, and ways to learn from works of art.
Poetry Foundation Education
The Poetry Foundation’s education hub connects children, teens, educators, and families with poetry resources, guides, teaching materials, and ways to explore poems.
DuPage Children’s Museum Educator Resources
DuPage Children’s Museum provides STEAM lesson plans, early-learning facilitation guides, field-trip social stories and sensory maps for educators.
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