The dot art lesson

Fantastic dot activities to go along with the book "The Dot" by Peter Reynolds. STEAM inspired projects perfect for young kids.

Amazing things can happen with just one dot.

In my last blog post, I shared that my students were spending a couple of days rotating between four different art makin' stations. We spent two days doing that and ended up with a TON of dots! We are now assembling our dots in a large collage on 18"X24" inch paper. Here is the video I created to walk them through assembling their work: I love how they all turned out and the kids loved all the different stations they rotated to. You can check out the three videos I made of art makin' centers…

Hey, y'all! We are officially back in school and in full swing! Our first days of art were spent printing dots after reading The Dot! We used Gelli-Arts plates to print our dots because I found that I had about 20 brand new round plates in my storage closet (wow, the things you find when you clean). Here's the video I created for my students: If you cannot see this video then it's because you are looking at my blog from your phone. Super annoying, I know. It's a blogger thing, it's not you…

"The Dot" by Peter Reynolds is an amazing book to teach students about their own importance as well as growth mindset. This post shows how I use the book to build discussions about growth mindset as well as to let students be creative and explore using the book as a model. Growth mindset activities, growth mindset art, growth mindset projects, growth mindset lessons

Painting with kindergarten...ahhhh. It's kinda crazy to think that one can experience literally ALL OF THE EMOTIONS in one 30 minute class period: happiness, fear, chaos-management anxiety, bliss, fright, horror and so much more. I decided to dive into painting with my kindergarten for their second art project (you can see our first day projects here) and I thought I'd share a little of what my lesson looks like. If it strikes you as familiar, that is because it's not that different from how…

Used Julia's dot markers to make cute doodles.

Classroom Guide: The Dot and Ish by Peter H. Reynolds - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. The document discusses Peter H. Reynolds' books The Dot and Ish and how they aim to encourage creative expression and bravery in sharing ideas. The Dot is about getting started with creativity and exploring ideas in many ways. Ish is about defending one's ideas when facing criticism and allowing creativity to flow. Reynolds hopes the books will inspire creative…

There's no better day to read aloud The Dot than on International Dot Day! Join us for this celebration of creativity and courage.

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