Today's web site comes from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, which has an excellent kids' site. Through the interactive art component, a child can create his own still life, abstract painting, virtual mobile, or geometric sculpture, etc., while learning about various art forms.

Elsewhere on the site are other activities, such as counting the colors in a Kandinsky painting.

You never know; your young artist might become another Marla Olmstead, the 4-year-old prodigy whose paintings were featured in last year's film "My Kid Could Paint That."

Do you have favorite art-making sites? Please tell us in a comment below.

(Sun file photo of "The Painting Ocean," by Marla Olmstead)