Preschool Learning
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Check out the Dayton Art Institute’s Online learning library with art-making lessons, projects and educational materials for learners of all ages. Click a project to learn more and to download lessons. Check here often for updates and new lessons.
At Home Lessons for Preschool:
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.
Friendly Monsters
Use drawing and tool manipulation skills to paint your own friendly monster!
Art Vids for Kids: Flying Pup King
Yoshitomo Nara (Japanese, b. 1959)
Marvelous Mummies
Make a personalized mummy using cutting and drawing skills!
Jack-o-Lantern Pinch Pots
Young artists use rolling, pinching and painting skills to make Jack-o-Lantern clay pots.
Eerie Monster Eyes
Create wearable art in the form of eerie eyes.
Blueprints
Create your own artistic twist on a blueprint!