Educators, homeschooling families, and caregivers, we have designed a selection of art activities for you to infuse artistic play into your learning community. These imaginative and fun activities, paired with artworks from our collection, are intended for all ages as a creative way to think, feel, wonder, and create with art.
Art Activities
Actvities
We have a series of fun, family-friendly activities inspired by Rokni Haerizadeh’s Reign of Winter for you!
We have a series of fun, family-friendly activities inspired by Diane Severin Nguyen’s Tyrant Star for you!
We have a series of fun, family-friendly activities inspired by Doug Aitken’s film migration (empire) for you!
Design your own chair inspired by Shiro Kuramata’s How High the Moon in today’s art activity!
In this art activity, make an abstract artwork inspired by your favorite song!
Imagine a bird’s-eye view of the place where you live, inspired by the aerial photographs of Pittsburgh taken by famous photographer Margaret Bourke-White!
In today’s art activity, collect and compose objects you like in the style of Emmet Gowin’s moth compositions.
In today’s art activity, we are exploring ideas of fame through Ed Paschke’s artwork.
Create your own kaleidoscopic artwork inspired by Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes in today’s art activity.
Spend some time exploring objects that are connected to important memories in your life in this art activity.
Husband and wife design team Charles and Ray Eames are known for the innovative plywood furniture they started making in the 1940s. The LCW, the design our in our #chairchallenge, debuted in 1946.
In this art activity, let’s think about selfies and self-portraits and how we can use them to share information about who we are.
In this art activity, look closely at Samuel Rosenberg’s Picnic and use it as the starting point for an imaginary picnic of your own!
Look closely at Quentin Morris’ Untitled (January-February 1994) and take time to examine how implicit biases are present in your own thinking.
Spark some creative thinking with this art activity inspired by Edvard Munch. Use Girl Under Apple Tree as a prompt for a short story!
After looking closely at Cassatt’s artwork called The Banjo Lesson, take some time to write a thank-you to a person who has helped you learn something new.
Engage with this series of fun, family-friendly activities inspired by Rachel Rose’s dream-like video artwork Lake Valley.
This art activity dives into our collection and your own personal collections—inspired by TOPPS Trading Cards. Make your own trading cards today!
Compare two works depicting trees and see how different they are—then try your hand at your own creative interpretation of a tree in this art activity!
Are you working from home with a cat? Check out some of the feline friends in our collection for some cute Monday motivation and use them as inspiration to profile your own cat colleague for today’s art activity.
The world is full of beautiful patterns! Explore the patterns in our collection, find and re-create your favorites, and design one of your own in this art activity.
Pittsburgh-based artist Thaddeus Mosley makes art with natural materials. Find inspiration in Mosley’s work, Georgia Gate, to make your own sculpture!
Create your own miniature self-portrait to share with a friend or family member in this art activity.
Take a digital tour of four vases in our collection and explore the concepts of form and function in this activity!
Let’s get moving! This activity is focused on depicting motion in painting, inspired by a work by Carlo Carrà.
This art activity is all about composition. Make a still life photograph inspired by Johnstown, Pennsylvania-born photographer Luke Swank.
Take a close look at Robert Rauschenberg’s Goat Chow for this art activity. We’ll use it as inspiration to make our own artworks from everyday packaging.
Enjoy an art activity inspired by Joan Miró’s colorful work People and Animals. Think about the interaction of objects and make your own artwork inspired by Miró!
