DOT Day Exploration

For this activity, we experimented with Dot making. This type of painting is inspired by Peter Reynolds, who originally made the Dot artwork. With this activity, we were asked to make a unique dot project using a paper plate and tissue paper. For my project, I used watercolors, markers, water, and paint to make mine stick out. In this picture I had a combination of different colors, lines and shapes that were created suing watercolors and paint; the water that was used help to combine colors and make the many different color shades that are created on the tissue paper. And in the center of the tissue paper, there is a dot that is the main part of the activity that can be created in a number of ways by the students.


An extension activity that I think would be a good one would be a language arts project, where students can make their one dot painting, but they would have to display some sort of message in the middle of the dot. For example, students might read a book in class and are asked to find a word in the book that stands out to them or is a big part of the story, and that word can be written within the dot to make it stand out as their own.





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