Unleash your creativity and draw whatever you’d like on this blank canvas. Using this pixel art application, you can draw a landscape, block letters, or an animal!

To use pixel art, simply choose a color and start drawing! The pencil will draw lines and dots, while the paint can is perfect for filling in spaces. To erase your canvas and start over, press the trash can button.

Pixel art is a special kind of art that uses small dots or squares. Doodling with pixels is a great way to explore creativity or practice other skills. Challenge students to create pictures related to what you’re studying, or have them use the pixel art tool as a whiteboard for writing letters, words, or even math problems. Here are a few ideas for using pixel art in the classroom:

• Draw a house that would have been common in the period of history you’re studying.
• Draw an animal’s habitat
• Write a block letter
• Copy a famous artist’s style
• Draw a cityscape
• Copy a pixel art example (to do this, students will have to count and practice visual discrimination)

Want to doodle, color, and explore even more art? Try these fun art games!

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Are you ready to throw down some amazing beats? Now you can, with our virtual beat box.

Start by throwing up some tiles on the board. The beat will start playing when you press the play button. Stop the beat by pressing the stop button. Start over by pressing the trash can button. You can remove tiles from the board by dragging them off the board and releasing them. The beat moves from left to right. Tiles that are in the same vertical column will play at the same time.

As you experiment, you’ll notice that the different colors have different sound qualities to them. While the green tiles sound like an organ, the yellow keys are drum or percussive beats, and the blue tiles sound like a horn. The letters and numbers on the tiles represent the same notes on the virtual piano. In other words, the C1 is the lowest note, while the C4 is the highest “C.”

See what beat you can come up with! Can you make a scale? Can you write your own song? Or recreate “Mary Had a Little Lamb?” Experimenting with the virtual beat box is fun and informative for music students.

Need more music games? We’ve got you covered with lots of fun digital music tools.

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