Best Online Art Classes for Kids to Take at Home

Art, in its broadest sense, is a form of communication. It means whatever the artist intends it to mean, and this meaning is shaped by the materials, techniques, and forms it makes use of, as well as the ideas and feelings it creates in its viewers . Art is an act of expressing feelings, thoughts, and observations!

Artbeat Classes allows you to extend your little one a creative outlet! The child gets to interact online with teachers & fellow students. Their online course is designed keeping in mind the resources available at your home. Artbeat Classes is powered by Google classroom, to impart convenient and hassle free art classes. It’s easy to navigate and use. Art Beat has been using Google Classroom for almost a year to teach kids at our art school. Artbeat Classes offers art classes for 6 years to 11 years old kids with 8 Instructional videos: per month, through 4 Live sessions per month, using 16 Worksheets per month.

They work using the following mediums:

Graphite, Colour Pencils, Watercolor pencils, Oil and Soft Pastels and Poster Colours on the following subjects: 

Sketching & Shading, Acrylics, Charcoal, Indian Traditional Art Forms, Water Colours, Poster Colours, and Pastels!

Udemy

Whether you are looking to build your child’s confidence, keep them occupied after-school time, or simply teach them the delights of art, Udemy has a course for every child. No matter your child’s experience with art, Udemy’s instructors will provide a quality art education at an affordable price. With a number of courses, such as drawing, painting, mixed media art, watercolor painting, acrylic painting, art therapy, calligraphy, collaging, or lettering,

Udemy makes a great choice for kids and parents alike, offering multiple paid and free courses in three different language subtitles – Chinese, Spanish and English. Videos lessons offered are 1-8 hours long and cost $6.26 -$30.81. All courses also have a 30-day money-back guarantee! 

Skillshare 

With 13, free online art classes for kids, offering doodling in an hour-long class, a drawing lesson with 25 steps, or courses that simply teach how to draw one giraffe, step by step in 15 minutes, Skillshare an online learning community intends to inspire and multiply a kind of creative exploration that furthers expression, learning and application in kids. The courses teach kids how to draw a basic kitty cat and a puppy dog. They play around with different materials, like acrylic and watercolors creating a fun filled, enjoyable lesson for kids. If you’re a new user, you can start with a free 14-day trial and are required to upgrade later to a Premium $13.99 or $32 monthly subscription, depending on the course and plan chosen.

Sparketh’s Kids Classes

At Sparketh’s, kids aged 6-18 can enjoy up to 1,000 free bite sized online art classes, with talented teachers for 30 days. Students can work at their own pace and create artwork based on their own interest, that is uploaded to one Central location in Sparketh portfolio. Students’ progress is tracked via their individual accounts. Kids can take nature drawing classes, animal drawing classes, learn how to draw and paint portraits, and more. There are dozens of courses on Sparketh, so any kid could find just about anything they want to create. Sparketh course costs $250 annually.

Lunch Time Doodles with Mo Willems

This perhaps is the best course on my list! At 1 p.m. ET, Brooklyn-based artist Mo Willems, illustrator of Knuffle Bunny, and the television series Sheep in the Big City of Cartoon Network, hosts a free live class where he creates a new doodle each day. Kids (and adults, both) are invited to join along and doodle with him. The course is less ‘instructional’ and more focused on open-ended, creative play. It’s less of a class and more of a great post-lunch brain break than a lesson in mastery of basic art principles. The last class was uploaded on May 31 due to the pandemic —but there are 20 awesome classes to choose from. Yiu will get more at YouTube.

Multibhashi 

Multibhashi is an ed-tech platform that offers live, interactive art classes, 3 days a week, with the flexibility of small batches, and convenient timings! You would find courses such as Calligraphy, Gond Art, Worli Art, Madhubani paintings, Tanjore paintings for the senior students. It also holds a 12 week program for young kids where they get to explore various art forms including impasto spoon painting sketching, painting using glitter, spray, oil pastels etc, origami, clay modelling, bead craft, bread craft etc. using some really easy techniques and resources found at home. After the successful completion of the course, children get a study completion certificate. 30 classes at Multibhashi are competitively priced at $37.12.

Let your child’s creativity show up. Let him not get drowned in classes online where he doesn’t get chance to talk and express himself/herself. This is not only a great escape for the kids art is also known to improve mental health. While the adults are lost in protecting their families from the pandemic, let the kids’ childhood not get lost behind the confines of a home. Allow them all possible avenues to express themselves, feel better, prepared and energized for every new day!