Length: Thirty minutes to an hour.
Parental Involvement: Explain "dots-only." Let the kids have at it.
Kids Should Be Able to: Use markers or crayons.
This is such a great idea – if you'll excuse a brief moment of self-congratulations — that we're surprised we haven't suggested it before.
Thank you again for bearing with our tooting of our own horns. And now, down to business:
If your kids are anything like mine, they draw and color practically every day. My kids just love their markers and crayons! They also love it when I give them a specific activity to do with their art stuff. And they even like when I give them some "rules."
Today's rule is: dots only! No other type of drawing will be permitted.
What kind of art can your child produce while doing just dots? Well, quite a bit, actually. (Check out the work of Seurat, the acclaimed French master of "dots-only" art.
You can challenge your older kids by asking them to produce "complicated" images using just dots. Also, you can "commission" specific works of art.[more] Can your child use some dots to whip up an image of a moose? A sunset? How about a self-portrait? I think I'd like my kids to draw a picture of a group of people giving me delicious, freshly baked chocolate chip cookies.
If your kids excel at pointillism, how will they fare with something I like to call short-line-illism? (That is, drawings using only many little lines.)
Please let us know how your dots-only efforts go!
(Thanks to SanFranAnnie for the image above!)
