Digital Resources
Looking for projects or resources to make and use at home? Welcome to our new Digital Resources page!
The Dayton Art Institute’s growing Learning Library Online offers art-making lessons, projects and educational materials for learners of all ages. Connect with your museum through art experiences you can do at home … or anywhere! Click a project to learn more and to download lessons. Check here often for updates and new lessons.
Special Resource: Women Artists in the DAI Collection
In honor of Women’s History Month, the Dayton Art Institute recognizes and celebrates the contributions of women artists. Click Here to learn about selected artists from our collection!
Families
Daruma Sculpture
Make a tiny sculpture and a wish!
Chalk Nebulas
Make a drawing inspired by nebulas!
Painting with Rubber Bands
Make a painting!
Number Creatures
Create a creature from numbers!
Paper Plate Truck Painting
Paint a truck made with paper plates!
Watercolor Hands
Create watercolor hands!
1st – 3rd Grade
Clay Figure Sculpture
Create a figurative clay sculpture!
Musashi Plain
Artist unidentified (Japanese, Edo period, 1615-1868)
Stained-Glass Inspired Painting
Create a stained-glass inspired painting!
Portrait of Julia Shaw Patterson Carnell
John Christen Johansen (American, 1876-1964)
Colorful Cardboard Collage
Create a dimensional collage!
Ovala Marea
Therman Statom (American, born 1953)
4th – 6th Grade
Clay Figure Sculpture
Create a figurative clay sculpture!
Stained-Glass Inspired Painting
Create a stained-glass inspired painting!
Colorful Cardboard Collage
Create a dimensional collage!
Mythological Clay Relief Creature
Create a mythological clay creature!
Papier-Mâché Abstract Airplane
Sculpt an abstract airplane
Mixed Media Monotypes
Create painterly prints!
7th – 12th Grade
Leaf Texture Collage
Create a monochrome leaf texture collage using tree leaves and collagraph printmaking techniques.
Shaping Peace Together: Collaborative Chalk Mural
Create a collaborative chalk mural.
Charcoal Portrait Drawing
Learn traditional techniques to make a charcoal portrait drawing.
Wearable Art: Cosplay Armor
Build 3-D arm bracers while learning the foundations of armor design.
Plein Air Landscape Painting
Experience the outdoors in creative ways and create your own personalized landscape.
Lyrical Poster Illustration
Create a personalized illustration inspired by song lyrics.
YA & Adults
Door with Flayed Lion
Artist unidentified (Tibetan)
Abstracted Flower Study
Draw flowers in a relief printmaking style!
Snuff Bottle
Artist unidentified (China, Qing Dynasty, 1644-1912)
Colorful Fruit Still Life
Draw a fruit still life!
Self-Portrait in Black Sweater
Peri Schwartz (American, 1951–2021)
Idealized Landscapes
Draw a landscape!