“I want to paaaaaaaiiiinnt mom” was all I heard from my little Mckayla yesterday haha. I encouraged my little girl to re-phrase with “Mom, can we paint please?” and then of course we headed to the playroom (like 5 times yesterday). We hadn’t pulled out Dot Paint in a couple weeks so I thought it was time to re-visit it. My kids treat the dot paint sticks like drumsticks sometimes and just bang on the table, but there are plenty of uses for this art experience. So, I wanted to share some ideas with you. 🙂
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There are definitely days when I simply put all different types of paper on the art table and just let my kids jump around from one new creation to the next. Other days I use the printables I make specifically for these activities, and we focus on a few skills at a time. Today I’m all over the place y’all haha so bare with me… I felt like sharing my five favorite dot paint activities AND because one of those five activities involves using my home-made printables I am also going to share my five favorite dot paint printables!
So, my five favorite dot paint activities are:
1) Making faces using the dot paint on paper plates – this can be a great tool for discussing emotions.
2) Decorating white paper bags (you can teach your little one to make a pattern around the edge of the bags).
3) Practicing Number Recognition with my Simple Number Search Download.
4) Decorating one of my calendar templates (practice one-to-one correspondence by marking only one square at a time with only one dot).
5) And number 5 of course is filling in any one of my FIVE Bubble Skill Printables!
I have an upper case alphabet, lower case alphabet, numbers 1-20, color words, and number words set.
Here is a glimpse for you:
And the momma in me “needs” to share the pictures of my kids in action:
8 Comments on My 5 Favorite Dot Paint Activities
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My kids love painting with the dot bottles but I never had any ideas before. Thanks!
I have dot painting and my 3 year old loves to smoosh paint very where! I love your ideas and would be very happy to use your wonderful ideas with my son. Thank you for your generosity!
James would love to try dot painting! Thanks for sharing, your ideas are great! I will definitely grab some dot paints to play.
Camden does dot paint at school sometimes, but now I’m convinced I need to buy some 🙂
I would love to try dot painting! I think my little girl would love it!
Hi! Love the website.
Dot painting looks like so much fun! My 3 year old would love to try it!
I’m catching up on all my blog reading! Hope I’m not too late to get the freebie. I have dot markers and use them with my 3 year old. I am getting ready to try to let my 22 month old use them next week! Eek! I am not a neat freak, but that boy is high energy and I’m a little afraid the paint will get chucked across the room. Anyway, would love to use some of your printables for both of them 🙂