An Arts and Crafts Activity
This is an interesting twist on standard painting or drawing activities that will open up a whole new world of color and design awareness for your child.
Materials Required:
- Paper
- Drawing implements
Instructions:
This is an interesting twist on standard painting or drawing activities that will open up a whole new world of color and design awareness for your child.
The rule is simple. Whether painting with a brush, sketching with a pencil or pen, or drawing with crayons, your child can use one pattern and one pattern only: dots.
Some children may be more comfortable if a design is sketched in lightly before the dot session begins; alternatively, you can use the designs in a preprinted coloring book. (Art history buffs will recall that Georges Seurat got pretty good results with this technique.)
One twist you can introduce if color is involved is to ask your child to use only primary colors (red, blue, and yellow) and “mix” them by planting various color dots in close proximity.
Close up, those look like separate blue and red dots – but back up a few feet, and you’ll see a luminescent purple!
This Childrens Activity is sponsored by Zane Education – the home of online Visual Learning.
