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The Arts

Music

• NPR Classics for Kids - podcast about famous musicians.
• Music Quizzes and Games - Online quizzes to test your music skills.
• Instrument of the Orchestra - You may hear the instrument play and learn more about it.
• George Meets the Orchestra - A YouTube video.
• Free Online Piano Lessons
• Ricci Adams' Music Theory Net - Learn to read music, and learn about scales, and keys.

Listen to Some Classical Music played by orchestras

• Hear the story of Peter and the Wolf
• Star Wars Theme - Orchestral music by John Williams.
• A Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra - Written by Benjamin Britten. You can see the orchestra playing.
• A Young's Person's Guide to the Orchestra - this is animated. See which one you like best

Art

• Artcyclopedia - Find paintings by an artist or take a virtual trip to an art museum.
• The Timeline of Art History - By the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
• Art History Resources on the Web - Links to art of all time periods and countries.
• Crayola Creativity Central - Lots of activities, coloring pages, and e-cards.
• DLTK's Printable Crafts for Kids - Crafts, coloring pages, e-cards, recipes and lots more.
• Hands On Crafts for Kids - Craft projects for Kids of ages 7 - 12.
• Crafts for Kids - Lots of them from Enchanted Learning.
• How to Make a Paper Snowflake - From Enchanted Learning.
• Christmas Crafts - From Enchanted Learning.
• Homemade Halloween Costumes - Some clever, money saving ideas here. This site also has some costume ideas for wheelchair users.

World Art

Visit some of the world's greatest museums. Some even have special web sites just for young people.

• Google Art - Visit some of the greatest art museums in the world without leaving home.
• The National Gallery of Art Kids Page - Go to the art zone to create your own art.
• The National Museum of African Art - Explore African art at this Smithsonian museum.
• The State Hermitage Museum - in St. Petersburg, Russia. Once this was the palace of the Russian rulers. Now it has an incredible collection of art. See if you can find the Faberge Easter eggs. Also try the Virtual Visit.
• The Freer and Sackler Galleries - Asian art at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.
• The Louvre Museum - Famous French art museum. Home of the Mona Lisa - see if you can find her.
• The National Gallery - in London, England.
• The Philadelphia Museum of Art
• Claude Monet - This is a good site to look at the art of the French painter, Claude Monet. You may learn about his life and where he lived, and look at many of his paintings.

American Art

America has produced a lot of great artists. Take a look at some of the different ways these men and women portrayed America.

• American Art Museum - of the Smithsonian Institution. You can look at a lot of American paintings here.
• Thomas Eakins - Eakins was born in Philadelphia, PA, and taught at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He is considered to be one of the best American artists.
• Mary Cassatt - Cassatt was born in Pittsburgh, and grew up in Philadelphia. She spent most of her adult life in France. She painted wonderful pictures of women and children.
• Edward Hopper - Hopper painted the life of people in cities.
• Art by African Americans - In the Museum of American Art in Washington, DC
• The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts - An excellent and very historic art school and museum of American art here in Philadelphia.

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