Homeschooling Suddenly: the Arts

For those of you who have rapidly become teachers, I'm breaking down my resources into their own posts. So whether you're in the market for a full curriculum, just a few unit studies to tide you over, or simply some freebies or discounted printables to get a little educational fun to your kids- here ya go!

Resources for the Arts

Culinary Arts

• Willfully Serving His Kingdom - baking studies!  Fairy Tale Baking Study FREEBIE

Performing Arts

Freebies & Discounts 

• Green Urban Mama - affordable Etsy store with ballerina resources perfect for a unity study
• SQUILT Music has a complimentary music lesson on Facebook with free lesson packet download, their listening calendar is a $5/month download for a clickable PDF with youtube links for a new piece of curated music everyday! OR join their Membership Program for $20 a month for a full monthly music curriculum!
• Classics for Kids - FREE lessons, music, games, composer studies, and more! New FREE activity sheet on a composer & music each month. Advice & resources for being a new music teacher too!
• BroadwayHD - free 7-day trial and $9/month to stream tons of Broadway performances
• PBS Learning Media - videos about all sorts of music topics
• Key'ndergarten - offering 4 FREE printables for teaching music basics

Virtual Field Trips

• Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra digital concert hall
• The Met virtual operas shown nightly (pre-recorded)
• YoYo Ma live Facebook performances he has dubbed#songsofcomfort
• The Kennedy Center virtual stage performances from their Video Library
• Livestreaming upcoming concerts - list updated daily
• The Show Must Go On(line)- weekly YouTube livestreams of Shakespeare readings, Thursdays @ 3pm ET

Art
Freebies, Shops, & Discounts 

• Deep Space Sparkle - FREE art classes each week and a collection of past classes- our personal favorite art classes!
• FREE Emergency Kit- from Deep Space Sparkle, an art teacher E-learning lessons, resources, and tips 
• The Masterpiece Studio - 3 FREE lessons, 30% off with code: STAYHOME in their shop through June, creatively learn about the globe, letters, numbers, books, art, food
• You ARE an Artist! - various free live chalk pastel art lessons, previous video art lessons can be found throughout their blog as well as on their sister site Hodgepodge
• 52 Drawing Tutorials - a year of weekly tutorials for $10!
• Adventure-in-a-Box - drawing prompts and paper dolls!, FREEBIES
• MiniNatureExplorers - super adorable nature-themed FREEBIES (click the link in their profile) and SHOP (20% OFF code if you sign up for her emails! link in her profile) 
• Crayola Collection - a FREE Art curriculum!
• Art at Home - great Google doc of so many online art resources, from contests to tours to live art

FREE Coloring Pages

• Madison Safer - really adorable whimsical FREE coloring pages (right click > Save As to download)
• Wee Gallery - seriously adorable FREE coloring pages and paper masks
• The Disney Nerds - Disney coloring page FREEBIES
• #ColorOurCollections - over 100 museums and institutions have created FREE coloring pages to accompany their collections, REALLY neat, ranging from cute to historical to eclectic to anatomical 
• Papio Press - brand new free coloring page every Monday
• Cheery Human Studios- one of my favorite independent artists has adorable art freebies, be sure to share them with her on Instagram too!

Fun Extras

• Daily lunch doodles with Mo Willems - all 15 episodes are archived and available to do at home! Use the left and right arrows to scroll through the episodes.
• Deep Space Sparkle - FREE weekly FB live art lessons at 1pm ET
• Khan Academy's Disney Imagineering - stretch your design skills with this FREE course in how to design amusement park rides!
• Khan Academy's Pixar in a Box - stretch your creative skills with this FREE course in how to design animated features!
• Daisy Yellow does a yearly Index Card A Day Challenge! While it doesn't start until June, scroll down to find the prompts for 2019 and give it a go! She outlines HERE tips for kids joining the challenge.
• Jarrett J Krosoczka - the author/illustrator offers 6 weeks of daily YouTube drawing instruction, the archive of these is linked
• Grace Lin - a series of read alongs and draw alongs on YouTube!

Virtual Field Trips

• The Guggenheim art museum virtual tour 
• The Louvre art museum virtual field trip
• National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. virtual tour 
• Musee d'Orsay French art museum virtual tour
• National Museum of National and Contemporary Art Korean museum virtual tour
• Uffizi Gallery in Italy virtual tour
• Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam virtual tour
• Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam virtual tour
• The Kennedy Center virtual stage performances from their Video Library