Messy Literacy: Dog's Colorful Day


Dog's Colorful Day: A Messy Story About Colors and Counting is one of those books that just begs for an activity to go with it.  Dog is a white dog with a black spot on his ear.  Throughout his messy day more colorful spots are added.  First he has some red jam dropped on him at breakfast, resulting in a red dot.  Next, he gets a splatter of blue paint. This continues until he has 10 spots of 10 different colors.  At the end of the day, he gets a bath.




For this activity, I started by tracing a picture of Dog on white paper and then we just followed along with the book.  Whatever spots Dog got in the book, we put on our own Dog.


If you look closely, you can see where my 4 year old actually licked the chocolate off his paper.

I should have laminated our papers so we could have given Dog a bath at the end, but I didn't think of it in time.

Adventures In Reading with Kids has some great painting, counting, and addition activities for this book and Miss Courtney Meets Bobo has done a cute activity involving treats!

20 comments:

  1. Looks like a fun, messy time. Thanks for linking our activities!

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  2. That's a crazy art project. Really fun though. I bet he had fun coloring it.

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  3. Cute! It would definitely keep even older kids interested.

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  4. What an awesome activity for this book! I think it's hilarious that your son licked the chocolate off, and love your idea of laminating the page so the dog can be given a bath at the end!

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  5. What a perfect activity to go along with the book!

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  6. What a great way to explore fun alternatives to paint!

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  7. So cute and great fun. Love exploring.

    Thank you for sharing on Kids Get Crafty!

    Maggy & Alissa

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  8. Adorable. Looks like you had a great time!

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  9. Stopping by from Kids Co-Op. What a great activity, and ties so well to the book!

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  10. Yum, great ideas. I love the orange juice idea. When do you ever tell your kids it's o.k. to squeeze the juice box? Bobo would love it!

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  11. Oh my! That is just such a fabulous activity. I love that your 4 year old licked off the chocolate. It's something both my kids would do too!

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  12. This is a fabulous idea- I love it! And I especially love the mental image of your 4 year old licking the chocolate!

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  13. How fun! Thanks for sharing!!!

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  14. Thank you so much for linking up to Read.Explore.Learn.

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  15. How fun! Just wanted to invite you to stop by and link up your Children Book inspired post (New or Old) in our 6 Week Summer Reading Adventure http://inspiredbyfamilymag.com/2012/06/12/summer-reading-adventure-week-1-tickle-monster/.
    Have a great week!
    Mari
    www.inspiredbyfamilymag.com

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  16. This is wonderful!! My Made by Little Hands post is here: http://likemamalikedaughter.blogspot.com/2012/06/enchanted-childhood-playschool-summer_16.html

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  17. Thanks for linking up to Learning Laboratory!

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  18. What a fun, hands on, sensory activity. I love it!

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  19. what fun, i'd never heard of that book, I'll have to look it out. Thanks for sharing on Kids Co-op

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  20. Haha! Love that your kiddo licked off the chocolate - too funny =-) Thanks for linking up to TGIF - have a GREAT week,
    Beth =-)

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