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At-Home Art Activities for Kids & Families

The Buffalo AKG Art Museum's Learning and Creativity Department has developed at-home art activities for families and kids of all ages. (We also have at-home activities for adults.) We also encourage you to check out artist Julia Bottoms's art activity for kids, What Is a Protest?

Inspired by Collection Works, Public Art, and Special Exhibitions

Family Activity Inspired by Hervé Tullet: Shape and Color

A collage of dark green, light green, red, and yellow pieces of paper on a blue background

Family Activity Inspired by Esperanza Cortés’s Work in Comunidades Visibles: The Materiality of Migration

A paper collage of a white daisy

Family Activity Inspired by Raúl de Nieves’s Work in Comunidades Visibles: The Materiality of Migration

A drawing with the word "PEACE" in the center and doves, flowers, and hearts all around it

Family Activity Inspired by Ronny Quevedo’s Work in Comunidades Visibles: The Materiality of Migration

A collage on black paper with the letter "M" made of small strips of red and blue paper

Family Activity Inspired by Comunidades Visibles: The Materiality of Migration

A hand holding up a paper sculpture

Family Activity Inspired by Swoon’s Tree of Life in Swoon: Seven Contemplations

Drawing of a tree

Family Activity Inspired by Jun Kaneko's Dangos

Paper dango

Family Activity Inspired by Swoon’s Medea in Swoon: Seven Contemplations

A drawing of a heart broken into different parts illustrating different emotions

Family Activity Inspired by Betsy Casañas’s AK Public Art Mural

Gifts wrapped in brown paper decorated with colored drawings

Family Activity Inspired by Swoon’s Cosmos in Swoon: Seven Contemplations

Three paper sculptures fastened together to make a large paper sculpture

Family Activity Inspired by Rufino Tamayo's Women of Tehuantepec

Cuts outs of different fruits arranged on top of a blank sheet of white paper

Family Activity Inspired by Keir Johnston and Ernel Martinez's Welcome Wall

A colorful drawing with shapes and words in different languages

Family Activity Inspired by Linda Stark's Rainbow Rotation

A tree branch with colored circles hanging off of strings attached to it

Family Activity Inspired by Karel Appel's Cats

Two people painting cats

Family Activity Inspired by Sandra Cinto's Tempest in Red

A person coloring a blue background around a shiny silver foil tree

Family Activity Inspired by Fernand Leger's The Walking Flower

A cardboard cutout of a walking flower

Actividad Familiar: Fernand Leger's La Flor Andante, 1951

Paper sculpture of a walking flower

Family Activity Inspired by Tam Van Tran's Untitled

A boy gluing paper shapes to a piece of cardstock

Family Activity Inspired by Norman Lewis's Street Music

A person painting with watercolors on an oil pastel drawing

Family Activity Inspired by Shantell Martin's Dance Everyday

A drawing of orange lines and words

Family Activity Inspired by Ingrid Calame's #313 Drawing (Tracings from Buffalo, NY)

A white sheet of paper with different colored and textured crayon rubbings all over it

Family Activity Inspired by Giacomo Balla's Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash

A colorful paper dog puppet on a popsicle stick

Family Activity Inspired by Rogelio Polesello's Pintura (Painting)

Overlapping circles in the shape of a diamond, all colored in

Family Activity Inspired by Anne Arnold's Charlie

A cardboard sculpture of a cat

Family Activity Inspired by Marisol's Tea for Three

A collage of a person with a cat

Family Activity Inspired by Max Bill's Field of 32 Parts in 4 Colors

An artwork made of triangles and rectangles in different colors

Family Activity Inspired by Kenneth Noland's Wild Indigo

Four artworks featuring different colored stripes

Family Activity Inspired by Henri Matisse

An elaborate paper crown

Inspired by Books

(Please note: While these activities are inspired by books, you do not need to read the books to do the activities.)

Storytime & Artmaking: Yayoi Kusama: From Here to Infinity

Pumpkins and other fruit decorated with dots and arranged on a green piece of construction paper

Storytime & Artmaking: Starting Over in Sunset Park

A drawing of three windows, one with a person, one with a girl, and one with a cat

Storytime & Artmaking: When Julia Danced Bomba

A maraca made out of a paper tube with a decorative paper taped around the outside

Storytime & Artmaking: Alma and How She Got Her Name

The name "SAM" written in big block letters and filled with pictures and symbols

Storytime & Artmaking: My Papi Has a Motorcycle

A drawing of a mural on the side of a house. The mural features an older man and woman in colorful sweaters.

Storytime & Artmaking: Even Superheroes Have Bad Days

A paper mask with a drawing of a person going on an outdoor walk

Storytime & Artmaking: Already a Butterfly

A white oval with blue lines, green shapes, and a yellow dotted line

Storytime & Artmaking: Pilar's Worries

A drawing of a person lying on a beach with blue wavy lines above them

Storytime & Artmaking: Last Stop on Market Street

Drawing of a person sitting at a table, cars, sunglasses, and a window

Storytime & Artmaking: Our Class Is a Family

A postcard with colorful flowers in green grass against a blue sky with a big yellow and orange sun

Storytime & Artmaking: Just Ask! Be Different, Be Brave, Be You

An accordion book with colorful flowers and the words "creative," "kind," and "funny"

Storytime & Artmaking: Tar Beach

A collage of special places with a drawing of a person flying over them

Storytime & Artmaking: Julián is a Mermaid

Paper dolls - a person, a shirt, and a mermaid tail

Storytime & Artmaking: Henri’s Scissors

A paper collage of yellow flowers in a blue and white striped vase on a red background

Storytime & Artmaking: Uncle Andy’s Cats

A drawing of four cats on a white paper - one black and white cat, one all-white cat, one white cat with brown spots, and one black cat

Inspired by Past Exhibitions

(Please note: While these activities are inspired by past exhibitions, you do not need to have seen the exhibition to do the activities.)

Activities Inspired by Swoon: Seven Contemplations (PDF)

Activities Inspired by Open House: Domestic Thresholds by Heather Hart, Edra Soto, and Rodney Taylor (PDF)

Activities Inspired by Anthony McCall: Dark Rooms, Solid Light (PDF)

Activities Inspired by We the People: New Art from the Collection (PDF)

Activities Inspired by Humble and Human: Treasures from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and the Detroit Institute of Arts (PDF)

Activities Inspired by Out of Sight! Art of the Senses (PDF)

Activities Inspired by We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85 (PDF)