Let your little ones practice their creative skills this St Patrick’s Day with this pack of 5 do a dot St Patrick’s Day printables!
As your little learners grab their dot markers, they’re not just coloring, they’re mastering fine motor skills with each gentle press and developing their hand-eye coordination one colorful dot at a time.
Dot markers, also called bingo markers or daubers, are not the only things your children could use. If you don’t have a marker to hand, they could also use:
- stickers
- stamps
- pom-poms
- buttons
- glass gems
- small pebbles
Or they could just color them in the old fashioned way! However they do it, I hope they enjoy!
And if your little ones love coloring, you can check out more cool coloring pages here.
What Skills Can Your kids Learn When Dot Marking?
Now you may not think it, but there’s actually quite a lot of skills that can be practiced and developed when your children are happily marking away.
These St Paddy’s dot coloring pages can help your children practice and develop their writing skills, such as:
- Hand-eye coordination – to be able to understand what they are seeing and get their hands to go where they want them to go
- Hand and finger strength – the ability to be able to apply enough pressure to make marks on the page and hold the pencil firmly
- Hand dominance – developing and strengthening the skill of one of their hands
- Crossing the mid-line – this is the ability to cross the imaginary line running down the center of your body – it means they won’t have to switch hands if they want to color on the other side of the page
- Pencil grip and control – holding the marker correctly to allow for a full and fluid range of movement
These are all vital skills that will set them up to be brilliant at writing in the future! But let’s not forget:
- Creativity – coloring is a great way to promote a child’s creativity.
Do a dot pages can also be great for children’s focus when they’re trying their hardest to fill in all the dots, and I’m sure as anyone out there who’s ever picked up an ‘adult’ coloring book – they can also be a great way to relax and have a moment of calm.
How To Prepare These St Patrick’s Day Do a Dot Printables
First you need to download them by clicking on the download box at the bottom of the page.
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If you print them all out, you could then staple them to make a do a dot coloring booklet to keep them all together.
That’s pretty much it – just need to grab some dot markers and they’re good to go!
Enjoy!
