Dot Day Ideas

Each September 15th (ish), educators read The Dot, by Peter H. Reynolds and implement Dot Day activities and ideas to inspire their students to discover and share their creativity.

Design a Dot

If your students are new to technology, have them simply design a dot that reflects who they are.

The DOT author, Peter H. Reynolds, gave us permission to include his beautiful frame in a Wixie template your students can use to showcase their Dot art.

Dot Day Frame Template

Personification Stories

After students design their dot, have them give it eyes, a mouth, and other human features to personify it. Then have them write a story about their dot's adventures.

Wixie Storyboard Template

Adapt a Dot story

Make it a Dot Week by reading even more books about dots, like Ten Black Dots by Donald Crews. Then, ask students to adapt it by illustrating an object that has a specific number of black dots.

Ten Black Dots Template

Paint with Pointillism

Explore paintings by Georges Seurat and Paul Signac that employ Pointillism and use individual dots of color to create the illusion of shapes and even colors in their own masterpiece.