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Ellen McHenry's Basement Workshop

Welcome to Ellen's world of EDUCATIONAL INVENTIONS!

Ellen McHenry has been building and inventing educational things for the past 20 years. These "things" include educational games, projects, songs, activities, skits, plays, textbooks, hands-on science exhibits, and published books.

Ellen McHenry's Basement Workshop

Shoo Rayner - Author/Illustrator

Shoo Rayner

Children's Author/Ilustrator site includes drawing lessons and more.

PC Crafter

PC Crafter - We put the art in clipart

The home of the most irresistible clipart on the web.

Films On Art

The Roland Collection Of Films On Art, this website looks very interesting. The following has been taken directly from the website:

Access To Art As Never Before!

The Roland Collection of films on art offers inexhaustible worlds of history, culture, philosophy, emotion, human document, celebration, protest, moral challenge and imaginative liberation - all embodied in the forms of art.

Anthony Roland, film maker and art expert, has created a unique archive of international talent in film-making and contemporary writing: the work of 230 film directors from 25 countries and 116 authors in conversation, in this award-winning collection of 500 films covering prehistory to the present day.

Discovering Great Artists

A very popular book among homeschoolers, Discovering Great Artists, Hands On Art for Children. The following excerpt has been taken from the books website.

Children ages 4-12 experience and enjoy painting, sculpting, drawing, and building works of art in the styles of the great masters such as Van Gogh, Michelangelo, and Rembrandt. 150 art ideas divided into five main chapters introduce children to over 80 great masters from the Renaissance to the present. Chapters include: Long Long Ago (Renaissance and Post Renaissance), Sunny and Free (Impressionists and Post Impressionists), Wild and Wacky (Abstract and Surrealists), Art Today Everyway (Pop, Op, and Modern), Make It and Play It (Games and Activities Kids Can Make), and a detailed Resource Guide (Indexes, lists of artists' birthdays, and many more things kids will love).

The website also has an online supplement for the book which you can see here and an online teaching supplement. Also check out this part of the site for some great art activities as well.

Atelier Art Curriculum

How about a DVD Based Art Curriculum? Atelier sounds very interesting so if you are on the lookout for an Art Curriculum keep it on your list.

Artistic Pursuits

This is a much loved Art Program for Preschoolers through to Senior High. Artistic Pursuits covers Art History, Art Appreciation, Getting Know The Artists Themselves, along with all of the creative elements of art.
We have personally used some of the junior program in our house and love it. It is easy to use, with all of the hard work done for you. You just need to gather your supplies and if you ensure you always have them on hand, then a great art lesson is really very simple to put together.

The program continues all the way through to Senior High. Be sure to have a look at Artistic Pursuits.

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Art Attack

Check out Art Attack for seriously fabulous and funky art and craft tutorials. All of the step by step details are listed to created loads of crafty things

Like 3D Picasso Faces from recycled boxes.


Curly Pictures.


Handmade Dough Faces.


There really are a lot of fabuous ideas here and enough to keep you busy for a long time to come. I hope you enjoy the site.