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.
Families
Retrofit: Turning Today’s Clothes into Period Costumes (Lesson 1)
Create fantastical, faerie-inspired skirts and a matching magical wand.
Harlequin Puppet
Use cutting and gluing skills to make a stick puppet!
Paper Plate Guitar
Make your own playable four-string guitar.
Dinosaur Dancing Feet
Make your own wearable dinosaur dancing feet!
Torn Paper Skeleton Hand
Use paper-tearing and cutting skills to create your own skeleton hand.
Friendly Monsters
Use drawing and tool manipulation skills to paint your own friendly monster!
1st – 3rd Grade
Lovable Line Drawing
Creating a portrait of yourself with an animal friend using crayons and markers.
Rad Robot Puppet
Learning to create stability and movement with inanimate objects.
Watercolor Resist Self-Portrait
Create a self-portrait inspired by LEGO®s and featuring personality traits using crayons and watercolor paints.
Playful Paper Weaving
Use construction paper to explore color and pattern by weaving various compositions.
Recycle Robots
Create a robot sculpture using repurposed materials you have around the house!
4th – 6th Grade
Native American-Inspired Clay Bowls
Sculpt a clay bowl utilizing Native American pueblo pottery techniques and designs.
Pop Art-inspired Painting
Learn to use crayons or oil pastels with watercolors to create a unique “resist” painting.
Clay Creature Sculptures
Create an imaginative clay creature that combines unique features of many animals.
Creative Costume Design
explore the foundations of fashion design through exercises in shape, line, color, pattern and texture.
Awesome Assemblage Art
Create an original assemblage sculpture that features both 2D and 3D qualities.
Surrealist Scene
create a dream-like world filled with unusual creatures and other imaginary elements
7th – 12th Grade
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YA & Adults
Kannon Bosatsu
Japanese (Muromachi period, 1392-1573)
Nature and Landscape
Unkoku Toeki (Japanese, 1591-1644), Landscape, 17th century
Animals in Art
Chinese (Tang Dynasty, 618-907) – Dancing Horse
Le Comte d’Adhémar de Cransac
Lionel Noël Royer (French, 1852-1926)
Art of Architecture
Draw complex buildings and structures using one-point perspective techniques.
Scenes in and around Kyoto
Japanese (Edo period, 1615 1868), early 18th century