Arts and Recreation class sign-ups and guides for the following cities:

• The long address for the City of Ventura’s “E-Recreation” guide
• The Adobe pdf file download of the City of Oxnard’s Summer recreation classes
• Pleasant Valley Recreation & Park District, Camarillo
• Conejo Recreation & Park District, Thousand Oaks
• City of Moorpark, Community Services and recreation
• Summer recreation online brochure for Ojai community services

Music:

• For older kids, encyclopedia of musical instruments from the University of Michigan
• The site of the Sound Project, a collaboration between the Minnesota Orchestral Association and the Science Museum of Minnesota, cool explorations of sound
• The San Francisco Symphony’s site for kids
• The New York Philharmonic’s site for kids
• Educational site about classical music
• Bash the Trash home page - make musical instruments from familiar objects
• Educational site about jazz music

Visual Arts:

• Terrific visual art games and activities from Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York
• Bottlecaps to Brushes - fun stuff from the Smithsonian
• kids’ visual arts page from University of Florida
• Fun Art Detective game
• If you can ignore some of the sales pitches, lots of terrific information, ideas and activities for creating visual art
• A very educational visual arts site from Britain designed for kids and parents together. Also for arts teachers or home schoolers with complete curriculae and project print-outs

Arts & Crafts and other fun

• Clip art and other stuff for your projects
• Coloring pages and other projects
• More coloring pages
• literary arts for your young poets and writers
• Explore lots of educational stuff from music to art to literature

Just For Parents:

• VH1’s Save the Music Foundation for keeping music education in schools
• California PTA’s project for keeping arts education in schools