Tweens' Things to Do... Crafts, Sing-a-long

Crafts for Tweens (Ages 9 to 13) and older

• Animated Knitting Techniques
  Knitting for dolls.
• artPad
  Digital paint brush and colour pallette gives you total freedom to draw onlin and save your masterpiece to show others. Read tips first. And then paint your own.
• Best Paper Airplane in the World
  Offers clear instructions and diagrams for the construction from a single sheet of paper. (Parental assistance recommended).
• Making Friends
  Dozens of craft patterns and how-to instructions.

• - Holiday Crafts
• - Making Friends Paper Dolls
• - Pony Bead Patterns
• - Yarn Bugs

• Draw and Color with Uncle Fred
  Gives step by step graphical instructions how to draw cartoons.
• The Impressionist: Paint Pictures Online
  Is a paint program that lets you create a painted representation of a photograph. Start with the smallest brush.

Music for Children and Parents

• CreateBand.com Make your own rock band online and listen to it play. 
• Making Music
  Is an evolving environment for online music creation and exploration.
• Playhouseradio.com
  Listen to music many different sorts of music including; classics, humor, educational etc. Listen and sing along while you play games or just want to hear some music!
• Sing-A-Long Midis and Lyrics for the Young at Heart
  Hand-picked music with lyrics. Fun for tweens and for oldters who are young at heart. Example: Hokey Pokey
• Sounds of Animals
  Explore the sounds of the world´s languages through the sounds of the world´s animals.