Art Education Apps

Faces iMake is creation based app that lets you make faces out of everyday household objects. It has an interesting feature called Faceworld that allows the children to showcase the artwork they made using the app. In FaceWorld, you can view pictures created by artists all over the world.

Devices: iPhone, iPad

Paul Klee might not be an artist that you have considered covering in the classroom. This superb app makes it clear that you should.

Devices: iPhone, iPad

Adobe Spark Post is an app that lets you create totally customized visual designs in a matter of seconds or minutes. The app offers you a wide variety of pre-defined designs that cover different topics (i.e. travelling, food, work) that you can customize to your preferences with just a few clicks.  

Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad

The Strip Designer application is an extensive app that allows users to create a comic style book using various templates and tools. This intuitive platform will make even the most novice of graphic artist’s design like a comic book whizz. The layout and graphics are completely customizable and the possibilities are endless. The application is free from in-app adverts and purchases and it suitable for 9 years of age and above. The app also works competently from a mobile device but for the best experience we would recommend a tablet.

Devices: iPhone, iPad

Useful app to help children learn to draw cartoons. The app contains seventy two different cartoon drawings, each of which is broken down into steps to make it easier to copy and follow the process.

Devices: iPhone, iPad

A neat app that harnesses technology to try and teach drawing skills.

Devices: Android

Opera Maker is a unique app suitable for 9-11 years of age that inspires children to appreciate and create their own opera. The app can be used in conjunction with creative arts, music or creative writing based subjects. Students can create their own video operas by directing, choosing the stage setting and costume characters. The app combines the art of storytelling by integrating classic operas such as Hansel & Gretel, The Magic Flute and William Tell. Features also include the ability to record your own voice and share your finished opera with friends. This app is available in iOS only but also in browser mode via the developers website.

Devices: iPhone, iPad

Using a well- designed mix of virtual tuition and real world practice, Color Smart teaches children not just about the history of art but how to apply the different principles of painting to allow them to more effectively unleash their creativity.

Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad

Tickles, Furnace and Ruby are three fun-filled characters with plenty to teach about art, its history and its techniques.  This app provides many informative videos to watch, activities to experiment with and lessons to put the knowledge into practise in the real world.

Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad

Charting Art is a truly cross-curricular app that links together art, history and maths with even a little bit of science thrown in too.  Watch educational animations, take part in fact or fib quizzes and engage in the suggested activities for the real world.

Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad

This is an app for those with a creative streak.  First your child designs a character to represent themselves and then they combine their artwork with a wide variety of animations.  Next they share it with the world and look at the art of everybody else.

Devices: iPhone, iPad

This is an app that asks children to complete a series of very simple tasks that will encourage logical thinking. The app receives an EAS Certification of 5 Stars and EAS Recommended Status.                                

Devices: iPhone, iPad

Common Core Quest is a free app that supports the content available on the OpenEd.io website. This provides teachers with the ability to create classes and set work based on the US common core Math and English Language Arts curriculum. There is an option for the teacher to subscribe to 50,000 Pearson formative item questions and 30,000 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Assess2Know bank questions. These questions can be then set to students. The app also marks the responses and gives each student some feedback. The student can invite teachers to join them via their settings and also they can join a classroom. The student can practice problems almost indefinitus.

Devices: iPhone, iPad

The Anti-colouring Book app is a unique concept by Susan Striker that steps away from the traditional colouring book pages and encourages the child to use their imagination and critical thinking skills rather than colour in a pre-conceived drawing.

Devices: iPhone, iPad

We were very impressed with this app. The illustrations are very beautiful and quirky. Children (and even adults) will be enthralled as they use the app. We can tell that a lot of care has been taken to create this app. The receives an EAS Certification of 5 Stars and EAS Recommended Status.                   

Devices: iPhone, iPad

Many museums and educational organizations create apps to accompany their exhibits and collections. It’s a great way to take a virtual field trip to the Museum of Modern Art. MOMA Art Lab features 9 different activities that explore the use of shapes and lines in unique ways. For example, create a virtual mobile and watch it move, or create a collage and shake your iPad to reconstruct the collage. MOMA matches an artist’s work with the activity to educate children about modern art while creating their own masterpieces. KinderTown really likes how the activity directions can all be read aloud to children making the app accessible to children as young as four. In addition, there is a light-bulb icon which provides ideas for creating your own artwork. The app allows children to save their work within the app. MOMA Art Lab is free, and appropriate for children ages 4-8.

Devices: iPhone, iPad

Start With Art By Madcap Logic, LLC is a great art educational tool that is curriculum based and offers high quality animated videos and learning activities through four lessons. The app features three fun characters – Furnace, Ruby and Tickles - that help children learn about the world of art and creativity. The app meets the National Standards for the Visual Arts,  and for all the content that you get it is very good value for money. We had a lot of fun with Start With Art and we highly recommended, therefore the 5 stars EAS Certification and the EAS Recommended status.

Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad

This is an interactive book that will captivate young readers to get in touch with the meaning of colour and how colour can take on a variety of different meanings. The app is suitable for very young Primary School children but will also be suitable for children who are a little older. We have given the app an EAS Certification of 5 Stars and EAS Recommended status. 

Devices: iPhone, iPad

PicCollage is a collage maker app that is simple to use with a bucket load of features for users to explore. The photo collage app lets you apply basic edits, stickers, doodles, effects and picture frames. Users can download the best free photo editor app for making your own unique creations with your pictures. PicCollage lets you instantly arrange your photos into frames - or get creative with freeform collages, cutouts, filters, borders, stickers, and text. Your friends will be amazed with what you can create. It's like photoshop with your fingers!

Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad