Kid Made Art Frame to Celebrate your Child’s Artwork

This kid made art frame is a fun solution for finding a way to highlight your child’s artwork that celebrates their creativity and uniqueness.

Here’s how to make your own frame.

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Celebrating Dot Day With the Book The Dot

One of our favorite illustrators is Peter H Reynolds, his artwork can be found in numerous popular children’s picture books.  One of my most favorite which highlights creativity is called The Dot .

Grab a copy of The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds 

As you read the book The Dot you’ll discover how with a simple, witty story and free-spirited illustrations, Peter H. Reynolds entices even the stubbornly uncreative among us to make a mark – and follow where it takes us.  It inspired actually a whole movement about the book called International Dot Day on September 15ish.  

You can sign up to join the fun and grab a free Dot Day Guidebook for celebrating. At it’s latest check there were 182 countries celebrating and over 16 Million people.

Are you joining the fun for Dot Day?  

Kid Made Art Frame Inspired by The Dot

In the book Vashti’s teacher placing her dot in a special gold swirled frame behind her desk.  We thought it might be fun to make our own art frame to highlight the artwork that my child creates in our house.  

Then we can use these tips for storing Art Work digitally one it’s had it’s time in the spotlight.  Here’s how we made our own Art Frame with my daughter.

Materials

• Dabber Dot Markers
• White Display Foam Board 
• Razor Knife  (Adults Only USE)

Directions

Making this kid friendly art frame is such an easy project and takes very little time until completion.  Just take your white foam board of your desired dimension of frame and cut it out with a razor knife.  

(This is an adult task and use caution around little fingers.)  

We chose to do a swirly type frame to try to model after the frame in the book.

Next you simply encourage your child to “Make their Mark” just like in the story and use the Dabber Dot Markers  to make a special design around the frame. Before we started I did talk a little bit with my 5 year old about spacing things about and allow room for white space too.

We plan to hand it up with a ribbon on my daughter wall in her bedroom to a special art display spot.  Can’t wait to see what she brings home from school and what she makes after school to hang in it.

One of my favorite resources for exploring art with kids is Jean from The Artful Parent.  Here’s her lesson about Circles inspired by The Dot.

You may also enjoy making this adorable Easy DIY Pom Pom Frame to celebrate Dot Day with your child.

Author and Illustrator Peter H Reynolds

We recently have been connecting with the author Peter H. Reynolds through his videos that were shared by KidLit.TV. {Watch Here} We discovered that we can watch them on youtube on our Smart TV . Which I’ll be honest we’ve not been using very much so I’m thrilled to know that our afternoons now can have a special time for watching StoryMakers and Ready Set Draw from KidLit.TV. We’ve been watching on our ipad or iphone which is fun too.

I’ve attached them below so you can watch here too and get to know more about Peter H. Reynolds.

Resources for Celebrating International Dot Day

Take a moment to watch with your child or even your class these videos featuring the talented Peter H. Reynolds.  I’ve previewed them all so that I can assure you they are kid friendly versions to view.  

My child’s favorite is the Ready Set Draw-ish from KidLIt TV.  The artwork he makes live in front of the camera is inspiring and simply gorgeous at the same time.

Here’s how we set things up with our Smart TV to watch KidLit. TV on YouTube.

The kids had such fun seeing things happening in person with an author they love.  Did you notice my pictures have their own art flair? I’ve been experimenting my own artwork a bit with the app called Prisma.  

Here’s a few examples using the Candy Filter. Digital artwork brings things to a whole new level with our images. Have you tried it out yet?

Watching Artist Peter H. Reynolds “Make a Mark and See Where it Takes You” as part of our after school activities.

Books by Peter Reynolds

Here are the rest of Peter H. Reynolds  books in his Creatriology!

Ish (Creatrilogy) by Peter H. Reynolds 

Sky Color (Creatrilogy)  by Peter H. Reynolds

Be You! by Peter H. Reynolds

Say Something by Peter H. Reynolds

The Word Collector

I Am Human: A Book of Empathy (I Am Books)

Books Illustrated by Peter Reynolds

I Am One: A Book of Action (I Am Books)

I Am Human: A Book of Empathy (I Am Books)

I Am Peace: A Book of Mindfulness (I Am Books)

I Am Yoga (I Am Books)

The Dot Day Song by Emily Arrow and Peter H. Reynolds

Putting a book to music is such fun. Emily Arrow bring it to a whole new level with her adorable and inspiring version of The Dot.

I’ve included her motions guide to the The Day Song an also the words to the song.  You can find a printable of them here.

Interviews with Peter H. Reynolds

Watch the Book on Video

Inspiring Creativity in Children with Art

Reading his books and watching this videos of Peter H Reynolds has made such a big impact with my children and how much more confident they are in simply starting to “Make a Mark” and see where it takes you.  

BUY NOW: Make Your Mark Gallery: A Coloring Book-ish

I hope it inspired your child and students too!  Can’t wait to see what we put in our Art Frame next!

How will you be celebrating Dot Day? Share below