Each year, on September 15-ish, students at my school, along with countless others around the world, celebrate International Dot Day. We wear dots on our clothes and we paint dots with watercolors, draw them with crayons, and color dots with markers -- but we also create using our computers. For my "littles" it's a great way to introduce our drawing program, Kid Pix Deluxe.
I love using this book as an introduction to Kid Pix Deluxe for my "littles" because, many times they have trouble clicking and dragging to create the lines on the page. They get frustrated. They don't believe that what they are drawing is good enough. I remind them that Vashti kept trying -- she experimented with color and size. She was BRAVE (see my Brave post from August 20)!!

LARGE DOTS, little dots, overlapping dots, see-through dots....ALL kinds of dots.
After the kiddos have created their masterpiece, we print them out and they sign them. These masterpieces join the countless others lining the hallways of my school in celebration of Dot Day. My kids learn early that they have the power within to MAKE THEIR MARK!
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