Digital Resources
Looking for projects or resources to make and use at home? Welcome to our 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
The Dayton Art Institute recognizes and celebrates the contributions of women artists. Click Here to learn about selected artists from our collection!
Families
Fabric Color Collage
Create a colorful fabric collage!
Clay Color Creation
Make homemade clay and experiment with color mixing.
Q-tip Painting
Use Q-tips to make a painting!
Fingerpainted Pets!
Learn about letters & construct with clay!
Squiggly Story Drawing!
Learn about letters & construct with clay!
Stamped Stars Painting
Make a stamp to create a star painting.
1st – 3rd Grade
Cardboard Tube Sculpture
Create an abstract sculpture!
Watercolor Pop Art Portrait
Create colorful portraits!
Pathway
John Safer (American, 1922-2018)
Shimmering Madness
Sandy Skoglund (American, born 1946)
Art Vids for Kids: Buffalo Slit Drum
Lobala people (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
Assemblage Sculptures
Create a work of 3D art!
4th – 6th Grade
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
Watercolor Still Life Collage
Create a watercolor painting inspired by two still life artworks in the museum’s collection.
7th – 12th Grade
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YA & Adults
Stylized Animals
Draw a stylized animal
Mwana Pwo Mask
Chokwe people, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Hands
Learn to draw hands
Arrival of the Three Kings
Sadao Watanabe (Japanese, 1913-1996)
Sculpture and Pattern
Draw repeating patterns
Embroidery from Uzbekistan
Janet Fish (American, born 1938)