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Amazing Paper Airplanes  
URL:http://www.amazingpaperairplanes.com/
Category:Craft & Design 

Includes instructions for folding a range of aeroplanes and even a space shuttle, as well as information on real aircraft.

Animal Crafts  
URL:http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/animals/
Category:Craft & Design  Art 

Animal Crafts for kids. Kindergarten, preschool, and elementary school crafts. Make simple animal crafts with things found around the house.

Architect Studio 3D  
URL:http://www.architectstudio3d.org/AS3d/index.html
Category:Design, Make & Appraise  Craft & Design 

Design a house with Frank Lloyd Wright and share it with the world on this interactive architectural design Web site.

Art Zone  
URL:http://www.nga.gov/kids/zone/zone.htm
Category:Design, Make & Appraise  Activities and craft 0-8 years  Craft & Design  Online games & activities 

NGA Kids from the National Gallery of Art (USA) provides several tools that allow kids to create art interactively. The site includes a Collage Machine; PixelFace, an interactive portrait maker and drawing board; Cubits, a geometric sculpture maker; 3-d Twirler, for designing and texturising three-dimensional shapes; Diamonds; and RiverRun where 'young children orchestrate a flowing array of colorful shapes and patterns.'

Artist's toolkit: Visual elements and principles  
URL:http://www.artsconnected.org/toolkit/index.html
Category:Craft & Design  Online games & activities  Art 

This website from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts explores the tools that artists use including line, colour and balance. The site also provides the opportunity to create your own works of art and watch videos of artists at work. Teachers can also make a custom menu for students to work with specific demonstrations, topics and themes. Suitable for primary aged students.

Arts and Crafts Movement in Australia - Stories from Australia's Culture and Recreation Portal  
URL:http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/articles/artsandcrafts/
Category:Craft & Design 

This article explains the origins, ideals and realisation of the Arts and Crafts movement in England, and how the movement eventually spread to Australia. It gives examples of the style in Australian furniture and architecture. Links to relevant online resources are provided.

Australian Design - Stories from Australia's Culture and Recreation Portal  
URL:http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/articles/design/
Category:Craft & Design 

Australian design has been documented for a relatively brief time and the industry has always struggled to achieve a commercial and creative balance. However the work of architects, interior designers, landscape architects, graphic designers, jewellers, industrial designers, fashion designers, furniture makers and textile artists is increasingly being recognised as an important aspect of Australian culture. Links to relevant online resources are provided.

Blender  
URL:http://www.blender.org/
Category:Software sites  Craft & Design  Media Studies 

Blender is an open source, cross platform suite of tools for 3D animation creation.

The Chairman Smiles - Posters from the Former Soviet Union, Cuba and China  
URL:http://www.iisg.nl/exhibitions/chairman/
Category:Visual Arts & Craft  Political Science & Policy  Craft & Design  Senior secondary history  International cultural institutions  Graphic & Design 

This is a selection of 145 political posters drawn from the collection of the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. The collection can be accessed through lists, by country. Background data is provided about each image as well as information about designers, collecting and collectors, poster conservation and postcard reproductions.

Chinese New Year Craft  
URL:http://crafts.kaboose.com/holidays/chinese-new-years/chinese-new-years-crafts.html
Category:Days, Weeks, Months  Activities and craft 0-8 years  China  Craft & Design 

This Kids Domain site contains detailed instructions of how to create many of the traditional Chinese New Year decorations, with varying degrees of difficulty between activities. Included in the decorations are snakes, dragons and Chinese lanterns