101 Frugal Ways To Share Art With Kids
Sharing art with children can be not only fun, but inexpensive as well. Here are 101 frugal (or free!) ways to help a child come to love the world of art and crafting as much as you do.
Participate In Community Resources
1. Free Days At Museums
2. Art Badge from Scouts (PDF)
3. 4H Projects (sewing, photography)
4. Free Library Programs
Read Great Books (free if from the library)
5. You Can Draw Marvel Characters
6. Draw Your Own Manga by H. Nagatoma
7. How To Draw People by Susie Hodge
8. Landscapes by Ian Sidaway
9. Ed Emberley’s Drawing Book
10. How To Draw Animals by Susie Hodge
11. Oodles of Doodles by Mike Artell
12. Kids Draw Dinosaurs by Christopher Hart
13. Experiments With Impressionism
14. Priscilla Hauser’s Decorative Painting
15. Let’s Rock! by Linda Kranz
16. Pablo Picasso by Andrew Langley
17. Pastels by John Blockley
18. You Can Paint Pastels by Marie Blake
19. Edgar Degas (Getting to Know Artists)
20. Painting With Tempera by Paige Henson
21. Easy Origami by Didier Boursin
22. Under the Sea Origami
23. Step by Step Origami by Clive Stevens
24. Origami Toys
25. Crochet by Jane Davis
26. The Busy Mom’s Book of Quick Crafts
27. Little Hands Create! by Mary Dall
28. Big Book of Kids’ Crafts (BH & G)
Learn By Doing
29. Study Cartooning
30. Fold Some Origami Projects
31. Build With Cardboard
32. Learn to Sew
33. Decorate Cakes & Cupcakes
34. Paint With Watercolors
35. Make Some Handmade Paper
36. Create Paper Mache Projects
37. Learn To Draw With Tutorials
39. Design A Flower Garden
40. Craft With Recycled Plastic
41. Draw With Colored Pencils
Explore Interactive Sites
42. Learn About Color
43. The Dancers And Degas
44. Art Safari Learning Activity
45. C’zanne’s Awesome Apples
46. Odyssey Learning
47. Gilbert Stuart: Making Faces
48. Be An Architect Activity
49. Childe Hassam Activity
50. The Unicorn Tapistry
51. The Dutch House Online
49. Lizzie Visits A Sculpture Garden
50. Design A Greek Pot
51. Explore A Victorian Painting
52. Learn About Landscapes
53. Destination Modern Art
54. Bottlecaps To Brushes
55. Buffalo Hide Painting
56. Aaron’s Awesome Adventures
57. African Life Through Art
58. Renaissance Connection
59. A. Pintura Detective
60. Go West, Young Artist
61. Inside Art Learning Activity
62. Landscape Adventures
63. The Art Of Crime Detection
64. Leonardo’s Workshop
65. Colory Theory
66. Out Of This World Design
67. Face To Face Interactive
68. Line And Shape
69. Color Learning Game
70. The Land That Design Forgot
71. Learn About Portraits
72. Mr. Picasso Head
73. How Van Gogh Made His Mark
74. Detail Detectives
Download Free Art Software
75. Stykz Animation Program
76. Paint.NET (Photoshop clone)
77. StylePix Graphic Editor
78. TuxPaint (drawing program)
Play With Free Art Toys
79. Etch-A-Sketch
80. Build Your Own Kaleidoscope
81. The Scribbler
82. Create Your Own Flowers
83. Snowflake Toy
84. Spin Art Online Game
85. Artpad (favorite)
86. The Artist’s Toolkit
87. Still Life
88. Brushster Online Activity
89. Jungle Interactive
90. Flow Interactive Activity
91. The Swatchbox
92. RiverRun Interactive Toy
93. Wallover Toy (favorite)
94. PaintBox Interactive
95. 3-D Twirler Interactive Toy
96. Collage Machine
97. Interactive Mobile
98. Pixel Face Interactive Toy
Watch Some Videos
99. Arts And Crafts Videos
100. YouTube (search: crafts for kids)
101. Kaboose Craft Videos
Read More : Crafts For Kids
Not a bad list! Getting kids to do crafts can sort of be a hit or miss at times I think… sometimes they love it, sometimes they want nothing to do with it!
What a great list of resources! Thanks!
Wow, what a great list. And FREE is always one of my favorite ways to save money.
Thank you for this excellent resource. 
I’m an origami fan and paper airplanes is one of my favorite forms of the art. It challenges not just your folding skills but also teaches you about aerodynamics. I remember a software called “The Greatest Paper Airplanes”. It teaches how to fold 50 different paper airplanes step by step with instructions and videos. Too bad the software is no longer distributed but there’s a website that teaches how to fold those 50 paper airplanes.