ACTIVITY: DOT PAINTING

“Painting should educate and enrich. Modern painting merely offers a split-second emotion: You see it, you have an instant reaction and move on. Instead, real painting can be looked at over and over again and each time it has something new.”

Dot Paintings are created by making several small dots of paint to create a cohesive whole — either depicting an image or a pattern. This is a great conversation starter with kids — how often we cannot fully understand the appearance of anything without knowing the story behind it, and how artwork can represent something more meaningful than it actually seems.

Kids kept dotting with ear buds until their scrap book with outline of patter page is filled. This activity was held both in DPS-JC and DPS - KIDS. This took some patience, because kids needed to dip their ear buds in the paint after every two or three dots. But it was a great innovative work of innocent minds. This is also a great fine motor craft, allowing children to practice precision and develop finger and arm strength in the dotting movement. Students were given full freedom to exhibit their innate ability of design with the help of their teacher in charge.