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
Art Vids for Kids: Circe Mulling Wine
Gioacchino Assereto (Italian, 1600-1639)
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.
1st – 3rd Grade
Art Vids for Kids: Lost and Found
Alison Saar (American, b. 1956)
Art Vids for Kids: Circe Mulling Wine
Gioacchino Assereto (Italian, 1600-1639)
Retrofit: Turning Today’s Clothes into Period Costumes (Lesson 1)
Create fantastical, faerie-inspired skirts and a matching magical wand.
Art Vids for Kids: Flying Pup King
Yoshitomo Nara (Japanese, b. 1959)
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.
4th – 6th Grade
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7th – 12th Grade
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YA & Adults
Chief Massasoit
Cyrus Edwin Dallin (American, 1861-1944)
Portraits & Poses
Consider pose and composition.
The Clock Tower, Venice
Francesco Guardi (Italian, 1712-1793)
Abstraction: Op Art
Create abstract designs and optical effects.
Retrofit: Turning Today’s Clothes into Period Costumes (Lesson 3)
Create low-sew Rococo-inspired overdress, hip padding, and stomacher from everyday clothing.
Couple (Amina and Maurise)
Mary Beth McKenzie (American, b. 1946)