Description: This is a project based on the book by Peter H. Reynolds called The Dot. It is a story based on a kid who said he wasn't creative, and yet made artwork out of different types of dots. For our project, we used coffee filters, and a variety of other mediums of art (markers, crayons, water colors, oil pastels, ect) and created our own dot. I used a white crayon to create a secret message that appeared after I covered it with purple paint.
Extension Activity: With the Dot activity, you could include a social studies element with it. Every student has a coffee filter, and they use a white crayon to write their signature on it. Then you will collect all of them and mix them up. The history element goes back to John Hancock and signing the Declaration of Independence. Talking about the importance of a signature and what it really means to put your name on this document. Then the students will have to design the dot to reveal whose name is on the paper, and then give it back to the right owner.
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