Dot Day

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 For international Dot Day, we read the book "Dot Day," and talked about what it meant. We then took circular coffee filters, and set them on tin foil. We made designs in markers, oil pastels or crayons, and then water colored over them, and the oil pastel and crayon resisted the water color, leaving cool designs. Once they dried, all students will have their own dot that they created, and can be hung up in the classroom. 

Extension activity: We didn't have much creative direction when doing this, so more instructions could be applied. If talking about warm/cool colors, there could be a direction that students have to only use warm or cool colors, or they could do something special with what they have to draw on the dot. Maybe students have to draw a character in a book they are reading, and decorate their dot for that character. 

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