We have not painted with dot markers (bingo markers) since the girls were probably three and four years old. I remember them both loving them – bouncing the markers up and down to make dots, and sliding them around to make stripes and swirls. The dot markers aren’t terribly messy either, which is always nice for those days when you don’t feel like a big, messy production!
Do your kids like to play with these type of markers? I remember having the Do-A-Dot
from Discount School Supply.
The three of us girls had a great time playing and experimenting with the dot markers! We tried some crayon resist with a white crayon:
Natalie and I also had a really fun time using the ideas in Ed Emberley’s Great Thumbprint Drawing Book
I was happy to discover that my girls are not too old to enjoy creating with dot markers – and neither am I!
Here are a few fun resources, in case you feel the need to make dots!
- Thumbprint Art at Ed Emberley’s site (really cool website!)
- Bingo Marker Activity Pages at Making Learning Fun
- Bingo Dauber Art and Fingerprint Art Ideas at DLTK
I’m sure some of you have done some neat things with dot/bingo markers – please share!
Happy Playing!
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that is a great idea for using dot markers! we will try it! my kids love the dot markers, too! but, i must say our creativity runs low with them!
Fun! I love the drawings with the birds, bees and fish! So cute.
So fun ! now I have to dig out my ed emberly books!
I love these ideas. My girls would love making little animals with our set of what they call “dot dots”.
We have the Do-A-Dot markers and my kids (5 and 3) really enjoy using them. We’ll have to try the crayon resist –cool! Your daughter’s dot animals are SO cute.
We will have to try these! I have a 4 and 2 yr old who would have fun w/ this. Love your ideas!
We were just playing with the Do-A-Dot markers this morning! I like to set out some sort of activity that my girls can do independently at the big table in the morning, while I sit with them and read the newspaper and drink a mug of coffee in peace.
I love these! So bright and cheerful. Looks like fab fun for all ages!
How fun! My boys, 23 months and 3 1/2 years love do a dot markers. There are lots of free printables at Make Learning Fun (http://www.makinglearningfun.com/index.html) that we like to use. We are going to try the crayon resist today!
We haven’t played with ours in a long time too. Thanks for the reminder! I think I’ll get them out soon! I love Ed Emberley.
Looks like you guys had great fun! How cute! We tried this last year ( http://happybirdycake.blogspot.com/2009/11/ed-emberley.html ) and my daughter loves those type of markers! great for little hands! and how could you not love Ed Emberley? we’ll have to try that crayon resist! ~birdycake
My little girl loves the bingo dotter markers. I recently made up a bunch of letter worksheets that can be used with them:
http://totschool.shannons.org/?p=2112
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