Art
Tate Kids
Kids paint, draw and spray digital street art, play art games and quizzes, and find projects to make at home.
Tate Kids is the young people’s corner of Tate, the group of British galleries that includes Tate Modern, and most of it seems geared toward making things. Tate Paint and Tate Draw offer brushes, stamps and colors for digital pictures; Street Art hands over a virtual spray can and a wall; Pixel Draw builds blocky images one square at a time. Games such as Art Parts and Sculpture Chaos play around with famous works, and quizzes ask what kids know about artists. The Make section lays out step-by-step projects for away from the screen – sculpture, collage, art outdoors. Short videos and artist pages explain painters, sculptors and photographers in plain language, and kids can submit pictures to the Tate Kids Gallery. Younger visitors may gravitate to the paint tools, older ones to the quizzes and artist pages.
- Ages
- Ages 4–12
- Works on
- Web browser
- Topics
- Art, Creative play
- Languages
- English
- Listed
- 2026-10-18
What kids do
- Paint a picture in Tate Paint
- Spray a wall in Street Art
- Play Sculpture Chaos or Art Parts
- Try a hands-on project from the Make section
- Send a picture to the Tate Kids Gallery
Who it suits
Ages 4–12. The publisher provides this age guidance.
Notes for parents
Run by Tate, the UK’s national gallery of British and modern art. Many Make projects call for everyday household supplies, and the games appear to run on computers, tablets and classroom whiteboards.
What you need
- Web browser
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