Dot Art Flower

Claire loves Dot Art! And if Claire is happy, I'm happy! So when Claire asked to do Dot Art this morning, I said "Sure!". And to tie in our flower theme, I suggested that we make flowers.

First get yourselves some Do-a-Dots. I bought these with a 50% off coupon at Michael's!

I showed the Pea how to make a Dot Art flower.

And here is the little artist herself making hers. Isn't it spectacular?!

Then she wanted to make one for her swim teacher since we were going to her swim lesson later on in the morning. She chose blue dots. And then asked me to make a flower. Unfortunately we forgot to bring her Dot Art with her to swim class which caused a major meltdown in the pool. Notice the small cluster of blue dots that form a line. She did that herself! This took some serious fine motor skills! I have been trying to get her to make a straight line with Do-a-Dots for a while now, so this was kind of a big deal in our house. You can incorporate color names, parts of a flower, and making patterns during this activity.