A pack of a 1000 color coding dots from the office supply store costs just a few dollars and gives kids lots of imaginative options for creating their own sticker critters. Decorate greeting cards, notebooks, picture frames, and any other surface you can apply a sticker to. Although a stack of sticker circles may seem to limit your creative options, once you start you’ll start thinking of more and more things that you can form with circles.
Craft Materials
Color coding dots usually come in bright or neon colors. Keep in mind that you can always color over dots with crayon or marker. One pack gives you a lot of dots to work with; most of the stickers you create will require more than one dot.
You’ll also want to work with
- Markers, colored pencils, or crayons
- Black fine-point marker for drawing details
- Paper punch
- Scissors
- Construction paper to work on (or whatever surface you want to decorate)
Ways to Work with Stickers
Don’t feel limited by the colors or the shape of the stickers. You can color over stickers or cut them to change the shape. Avoid trying to turn the circles into complex shapes. Cut them in half or quarters and add those shapes to your sticker options.
- Color a black or brown marker, crayon, or colored pencil over a red or yellow sticker to give fur or hair a warm tone.
- Color a tan, peach, or brown color over a red or yellow sticker for skin tone.
- Color gray over blue stickers to create shaded gray fur.
Note: Cut or color the sticker dots while they are still attached to the sticker paper; the stickers will be easier to work with when the dots aren’t sticking to things you don’t want them stuck to.
Sticker Craft Ideas
Click on the photos below for examples of the stickers you can make out of dots.
Frog – Overlap two green dots, head and body. Cut one dot in half and apply each half to either side of the body to create legs. Cut a second dot in half. Cut one of the halves into quarters and apply to the base of the legs for feet. Take the free half and use the paper punch to make two small circles. Apply those two small circles to the top of the head for eyes. Use the black marker to draw on the face.
Flower – Start with a yellow dot in the center and surround with bright circular petals. (Overlap the dots for another option.) Cut two green circles in half for leaves. With a green marker, draw a stem below the flower; add the petals along the stem.
Bee – Draw black stripes along a yellow dot. Color white over a yellow dot and cut that dot in half for wings you attach to the body. Draw on a head, a stinger, eyes, and antennae.
Snake or Caterpillar – Connect multi-color or single color dots in a long strand.
Snail – Place the sticker dots in a spiral. Draw on the eye stalks and the single foot.
Let the color dots inspire your creativity as you think up other types of animals and things that you can make with simple circle stickers.
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