Dot

Coffee filters on top of the paper

Paper without coffee filters

      This dot project can be created using many different mediums such as watercolor paint, crayons, and markers.  The book Dot by Peter Reynolds is a great story to begin the class period with before starting the project.  After the story, the students will need a coffee filter and a white sheet of paper to put their coffee filter on as they paint and color it.  Then the students will create their dot using many different designs and colors.  They can color it with markers then use a wet paint brush and blend it in or write a message using their white crayon before painting it.  An extension activity for this project could be creating a solar system for science class.  Each student would be assigned a planet to create and then put all the planets together to make the solar system. 

Coffee filters by themselves