Art

Grade Range: Any Summary: It's a drawing app, but the drawings happen on a black background and writes in neon. Great for sensory breaks!
 * Glow Coloring**

Grade Range: Any Summary: This is an app that turns a drawing into an animation. Create a drawing, add a page, and the previous drawing is transparent against the background so a student can trace over it and create an animation.
 * Animation HD**

Grade Range: 3-5 Summary: Fun! Squares of a "zoomed in" image must be matched to coordinating squares of a masterpiece. Nice Art history lesson or to get kids to look closely at a particular piece.
 * Pix Pop Art**

Grade Range: 5-6 Summary: Very cool! Somewhat complex- but awesome! Allows you to create a cartoon with a setup, conflict, challenge, climax and resolution- record voice, the whole bit.
 * ToonTastic**

Grade Range: Any Summary: Fun and cool to look at. Nice intro for a lesson on installation Art. Not a whole lot of educational value though.
 * Light Painting**

Grade Range: 3-5 Summary: Maybe my favorite app so far! Allows endless options for fonts, size, color, variability. Students can draw an image using only text. Great exercise for working with typography. This is a project that I can't imagine doing without an ipad. I don't think it could be done with a traditional paper/pencil. Great way for kids to practice scale, texture, color, etc.
 * Type Drawing**

Grade Range: 1-2 Summary: Great app for intro to the iPad. Can make photos a background, draw on it, label, make posters...
 * Doodle Buddy**

Grade Range: 4-5 Summary: Amazing app for older students who are learning to draw with a grid. It allows you to skip the grid drawing (great for time purposes, bad if kids need practice with rulers) and lay a grid over a photo. This helps drawing with accuracy.
 * Accudraw**

Grade Range: Any Summary: Great app for an extra-time activity or Art History lesson. Scrambles a masterpiece and let's you put back together
 * ArtPuzzle**

Grade Range: Any Summary: Awesome app! Direct correlation to one of today's popular artists- Hanoch Piven. What a great way to teach about his work and let the kids experiment without having to have access to pictures of a million items!
 * Faces iMake**

Grade Range: Any Summary: Works just like on the computer. Awesome! Gives you access to several museums, lets you select artwork and zoom in to see all details- for example, Van Gogh's brush stroke marks in Starry Nights.
 * Google Art Project**

Grade Range: Any Summary: This app is your electronic sketchbook. It allows students to create sketches as well as works of art in various mediums as well as creating various layers and historical techniques.
 * Sketchbook Lite/Pro**