Art

Art and drawing apps for kids

Drawing, painting, animation and design tools, plus art lessons to follow along with.

Ages 2–5

PBS KIDS Games: Games and videos from PBS KIDS programs, gathered in one browser destination.
Art for Kids Hub: Art for Kids Hub has step-by-step drawing videos for kids, with a parent and child drawing the same subject side by side.
National Gallery of Art Paint ’n’ Play: A digital painting tool with brushes and palettes based on artists in the National Gallery of Art collection.
Getty Drawing With Kids: A short Getty article with five drawing ideas tied to artworks in the museum’s collection.
Tux Paint: A children’s drawing program with a penguin mascot, sound effects and an open canvas.
Crayola Crafts: A library of Crayola craft projects that can be searched by materials, theme and age.
ABCya: ABCya has a large catalog of short browser games for kids, covering math, reading, art, typing and other elementary subjects.
Sesame Street: Sesame Street’s website mixes character games, videos and printable coloring pages for preschoolers.
Education.com: A searchable library of games, worksheets, lesson plans and hands-on projects.
Sheppard Software: A broad collection of short learning games across early concepts, math, geography, animals, science and language arts.
Tate Kids: Tate Kids is a place to paint, draw and spray digital street art, play art games and quizzes, and find art projects to make at home.
Aqua – Adobe for Kids: Kids draw, color, design outfits, make comics and turn drawings into 3D objects on a map of creative islands.
CBeebies Get Creative: Little ones paint, doodle, build with blocks, invent toys and make music alongside CBeebies characters.
KiwiCo DIY Projects: Kids build, tinker and experiment through step-by-step projects that mostly use materials found around the house.
Ozobot: Kids draw lines and colored codes with markers for a tiny robot to follow, then try block coding on a screen.
Hey Duggee: The Big Badge App: Kids pick a Squirrel and play six quick games with Duggee, earning a badge for each one they finish.
Hungry Caterpillar Play School: In Hungry Caterpillar Play School, kids trace letters, count, paint, make music and listen to stories with Eric Carle’s caterpillar.
Sesame Street Games Club: Preschoolers appear to bake with Cookie Monster, climb a beanstalk with Elmo and tinker with the Mecha Builders.
Miffy’s World: Toddlers guide Miffy through her day, from bath and breakfast to gardening, painting and bedtime.
PAW Patrol Academy: Preschoolers work on letters, numbers, shapes and feelings during missions with the PAW Patrol pups.
Budge World: Kids hop between more than 100 games, from ABCs and early math to coloring, cooking and dress-up with familiar characters.
The Kid Should See This: Kids and grown-ups wander through a huge, hand-picked collection of short videos on science, nature, art and how things get made.
Natural History Museum: Activities for All: The Natural History Museum’s Activities for All page lists ways to explore nature at home or close by.
DK Learning Activity Packs and Worksheets: DK Learning’s activity packs are downloadable projects and worksheets on nature, STEM, history and creative subjects.

Ages 6–8

PBS KIDS Games: Games and videos from PBS KIDS programs, gathered in one browser destination.
Art for Kids Hub: Art for Kids Hub has step-by-step drawing videos for kids, with a parent and child drawing the same subject side by side.
MoMA At-Home Art Activities: Art-making ideas from MoMA, each starting from a work in the museum’s collection.
National Gallery of Art Paint ’n’ Play: A digital painting tool with brushes and palettes based on artists in the National Gallery of Art collection.
Jarrett Lerner Creative Activities: Printable comics, story starters and drawing prompts from author-illustrator Jarrett Lerner.
Exploratorium Tinkering Projects: Hands-on tinkering projects from the Exploratorium built around motion, balance and chain reactions.
Getty Drawing With Kids: A short Getty article with five drawing ideas tied to artworks in the museum’s collection.
V&A Make & Do for Kids: Design activities from the V&A, from a fantastic creature to a patterned tile or a story setting.
Tux Paint: A children’s drawing program with a penguin mascot, sound effects and an open canvas.
Crayola Crafts: A library of Crayola craft projects that can be searched by materials, theme and age.
New Victory Arts Break: A video activity in which children make a paper puppet of themselves and take it on an adventure.
ABCya: ABCya has a large catalog of short browser games for kids, covering math, reading, art, typing and other elementary subjects.
Toy Theater: Short learning games mixed with virtual manipulatives, creative tools and classic puzzles.
Education.com: A searchable library of games, worksheets, lesson plans and hands-on projects.
Sheppard Software: A broad collection of short learning games across early concepts, math, geography, animals, science and language arts.
Tate Kids: Tate Kids is a place to paint, draw and spray digital street art, play art games and quizzes, and find art projects to make at home.
Aqua – Adobe for Kids: Kids draw, color, design outfits, make comics and turn drawings into 3D objects on a map of creative islands.
KiwiCo DIY Projects: Kids build, tinker and experiment through step-by-step projects that mostly use materials found around the house.
Ozobot: Kids draw lines and colored codes with markers for a tiny robot to follow, then try block coding on a screen.
Quick, Draw!: Kids sketch a named object in 20 seconds while a computer tries to guess what it is.
Monument Valley: Kids rotate and shift impossible buildings so a silent princess can walk paths that only line up from the right angle.
Osmo Genius Starter Kit: Kids move real tangram pieces, number tiles and letter tiles in front of a tablet, and the games react to what they build.
Hungry Caterpillar Play School: In Hungry Caterpillar Play School, kids trace letters, count, paint, make music and listen to stories with Eric Carle’s caterpillar.
Sesame Street Games Club: Preschoolers appear to bake with Cookie Monster, climb a beanstalk with Elmo and tinker with the Mecha Builders.
Budge World: Kids hop between more than 100 games, from ABCs and early math to coloring, cooking and dress-up with familiar characters.
StoryJumper: Kids write and illustrate their own storybook, record their narration and can turn it into a printed book.
MakeBeliefsComix: Kids build comic strips from ready-made characters, speech bubbles and story prompts.
The Kid Should See This: Kids and grown-ups wander through a huge, hand-picked collection of short videos on science, nature, art and how things get made.
Smithsonian: Fun Stuff for Kids and Teens: The Smithsonian’s kids and teens hub gathers activities from across its museums for use at home.
Natural History Museum: Activities for All: The Natural History Museum’s Activities for All page lists ways to explore nature at home or close by.
DK Learning Activity Packs and Worksheets: DK Learning’s activity packs are downloadable projects and worksheets on nature, STEM, history and creative subjects.

Ages 9–12

Art for Kids Hub: Art for Kids Hub has step-by-step drawing videos for kids, with a parent and child drawing the same subject side by side.
Stop Motion Studio: An app for making stop-motion films by photographing small movements one frame at a time.
MoMA At-Home Art Activities: Art-making ideas from MoMA, each starting from a work in the museum’s collection.
National Gallery of Art Paint ’n’ Play: A digital painting tool with brushes and palettes based on artists in the National Gallery of Art collection.
Jarrett Lerner Creative Activities: Printable comics, story starters and drawing prompts from author-illustrator Jarrett Lerner.
Exploratorium Tinkering Projects: Hands-on tinkering projects from the Exploratorium built around motion, balance and chain reactions.
Getty Drawing With Kids: A short Getty article with five drawing ideas tied to artworks in the museum’s collection.
V&A Make & Do for Kids: Design activities from the V&A, from a fantastic creature to a patterned tile or a story setting.
Piskel for Kids: A pixel-art editor for drawing small characters and turning them into animated sprites.
Tux Paint: A children’s drawing program with a penguin mascot, sound effects and an open canvas.
Crayola Crafts: A library of Crayola craft projects that can be searched by materials, theme and age.
ABCya: ABCya has a large catalog of short browser games for kids, covering math, reading, art, typing and other elementary subjects.
Toy Theater: Short learning games mixed with virtual manipulatives, creative tools and classic puzzles.
Education.com: A searchable library of games, worksheets, lesson plans and hands-on projects.
Sheppard Software: A broad collection of short learning games across early concepts, math, geography, animals, science and language arts.
Tate Kids: Tate Kids is a place to paint, draw and spray digital street art, play art games and quizzes, and find art projects to make at home.
Aqua – Adobe for Kids: Kids draw, color, design outfits, make comics and turn drawings into 3D objects on a map of creative islands.
KiwiCo DIY Projects: Kids build, tinker and experiment through step-by-step projects that mostly use materials found around the house.
Pencil Code: Kids steer a drawing turtle with code to make pictures, tunes and games, flipping between blocks and typed text.
Ozobot: Kids draw lines and colored codes with markers for a tiny robot to follow, then try block coding on a screen.
GDevelop: Kids build their own 2D and 3D games from events and ready-made behaviors, then export them to share.
Quick, Draw!: Kids sketch a named object in 20 seconds while a computer tries to guess what it is.
Monument Valley: Kids rotate and shift impossible buildings so a silent princess can walk paths that only line up from the right angle.
Osmo Genius Starter Kit: Kids move real tangram pieces, number tiles and letter tiles in front of a tablet, and the games react to what they build.
StoryJumper: Kids write and illustrate their own storybook, record their narration and can turn it into a printed book.
MakeBeliefsComix: Kids build comic strips from ready-made characters, speech bubbles and story prompts.
The Kid Should See This: Kids and grown-ups wander through a huge, hand-picked collection of short videos on science, nature, art and how things get made.
Smithsonian: Fun Stuff for Kids and Teens: The Smithsonian’s kids and teens hub gathers activities from across its museums for use at home.
Natural History Museum: Activities for All: The Natural History Museum’s Activities for All page lists ways to explore nature at home or close by.
DK Learning Activity Packs and Worksheets: DK Learning’s activity packs are downloadable projects and worksheets on nature, STEM, history and creative subjects.

Ages 13+

Stop Motion Studio: An app for making stop-motion films by photographing small movements one frame at a time.
MoMA At-Home Art Activities: Art-making ideas from MoMA, each starting from a work in the museum’s collection.
National Gallery of Art Paint ’n’ Play: A digital painting tool with brushes and palettes based on artists in the National Gallery of Art collection.
Exploratorium Tinkering Projects: Hands-on tinkering projects from the Exploratorium built around motion, balance and chain reactions.
V&A Make & Do for Kids: Design activities from the V&A, from a fantastic creature to a patterned tile or a story setting.
Piskel for Kids: A pixel-art editor for drawing small characters and turning them into animated sprites.
Education.com: A searchable library of games, worksheets, lesson plans and hands-on projects.
Sheppard Software: A broad collection of short learning games across early concepts, math, geography, animals, science and language arts.
KiwiCo DIY Projects: Kids build, tinker and experiment through step-by-step projects that mostly use materials found around the house.
Pencil Code: Kids steer a drawing turtle with code to make pictures, tunes and games, flipping between blocks and typed text.
Ozobot: Kids draw lines and colored codes with markers for a tiny robot to follow, then try block coding on a screen.
GDevelop: Kids build their own 2D and 3D games from events and ready-made behaviors, then export them to share.
Quick, Draw!: Kids sketch a named object in 20 seconds while a computer tries to guess what it is.
Monument Valley: Kids rotate and shift impossible buildings so a silent princess can walk paths that only line up from the right angle.
The Kid Should See This: Kids and grown-ups wander through a huge, hand-picked collection of short videos on science, nature, art and how things get made.