Camping Dot Painting - A Fine Motor Art Activity

Students fill dot-painting outlines of camping objects such as tents, compasses and marshmallows, pairing art practice with labeled vocabulary.
Grades
Preschool–2, Elementary
Pages
15
File type
PDF
Preparation
Print ready

Updated Jun 05, 2024

Subject
ELA, Creative Arts, Reading, Vocabulary, Language Development, Art
Topic
Fine Motor Art, Fine Motor Skills
Resource types
Activities
Preparation
Print ready
Standards
L.K.5

Product description

From the author

Practice fine motor skills while creating a camping dot art painting with these fine motor q-tip dot painting sheets. This summer themed art activity is a perfect anytime craft for preschoolers and early elementary students to practice hand eye coordination.

The following dot painting pages are included in this set:

backpack, binoculars, camping, compass, fire, forest, hiking (girl and boy), map, marshmallow, smore, tent, trail

Each page is designed with a different camping item for students to practice their fine motor skills and create a fun art picture to display in the classroom or in their home. Students will have fun choosing their colors to make their pictures their own unique masterpieces.

When to Use these Dot Painting Pages

  • Art Center or a Fine Motor Center - Simply place the pages inside the center with paints of various colors and cotton swabs for students to complete.

  • Craft Activity - These dot painting pages also make a great whole class art activity where each student paints at their own desk their chosen dot art picture.

  • Early Finishers - When students finish their work, they can complete this dot painting activity while waiting on their classmates to finish their assignments.

  • Quiet Time Activity - Students who have trouble napping can complete one of these dot painting pages while their classmates nap.

  • Displays - These dot painting pictures can be displayed on classroom bulletin boards, doors, or hallways.

All of these dot painting pages are no prep. They just need to be printed and given to students to decorate. The teacher will simply need to provide paints of various colors and cotton swabs.

An alternative to using cotton swabs and paint is to have students decorate their pictures with dots of colored glue. Older students may want to try creating their pictures this way for a more tactile way to complete this art activity.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Name twelve camping words from their pictures: tent, forest, s'more, camping, map, trail, fire, marshmallow, compass, hiking, binoculars and backpack

  • Sustain hand and finger control across a full picture page, one small mark at a time

Teaching tips

  • Choose a few pages for a short camping-themed art session.
  • Demonstrate filling a printed dot before students work independently.
  • Display finished pages with their labels for a word-and-picture review.

Skills covered

  • Fine motor control — each sheet is a single picture worked mark by mark, which keeps the hand in small repeated movements for the length of a page.

  • Camping vocabulary — twelve words are named one to a page, mixing familiar ones such as map and fire with less common ones such as compass, binoculars and marshmallow.

  • Word-and-picture matching — the printed label sits on the same page as the picture it names, so a pre-reader ties the word to the image while working.

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Which camping words does the set cover?

Twelve: tent, forest, s'more, camping, map, trail, fire, marshmallow, compass, hiking, binoculars and backpack. That runs to thirteen picture pages, because hiking is given two separate pages of its own.

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Curriculum

Standards, concepts & topics

Standards

  • L.K.5

Core concepts

  • Fine motor skills

  • Camping vocabulary

  • Dot painting

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