Inspired by DOT DAY

Today is International Dot Day - go here to find out about it! So today we focused on things DOTTY!

First up was a discussion about what International Dot Day is - " a celebration of creativity". So I posed the question:

WHAT IS CREATIVITY?

Here are the kids responses...

We had a quick discussion about whether something is creative even if it is not original - they decided YES it can still be creative as long as you are using SOME of your own ideas along with the inspiration you got from someone else. They were pretty clear that creativity was to do with 'imagination, uniqueness, has an element of fun to it, and is the making of something'. So a great way to start a Monday. 

I explained our first activity - 30 circles to draw as many 'circular inspired pictures' as possible in 60 seconds! (we cheated and extended our time to 3 minutes as after 60 seconds not many had much!) Are they not as creative as they thought?

Had some original ideas this time which I had not seen before like Jasmine's Japanese lady 'with baby' in crib..

No one had ever done a set of earphones before- well done Emily...

The two people kissing from Sophie caused hysteria!...

Although I have seen the pan of bacon and eggs before - I still love it Kristina...

Jackson's puffer fish was a new one too...

Mya's lollipop and girl next door was cool...

I thought Waimarama's panda was a mouse - either way it was cool...

And lastly, I couldn't select ONE from Connor so took a photo of most of the page! Some wonderful 'planets', an eyeball, and a cat with a 'speech bubble'...

All in all a neat little DOT DAY activity to celebrate everyone's varying levels of creativity!