Dot Day

Celebrate creative ideas with circle gardens, round cities and playful patterns. Print, color and add your own marks for International Dot Day or any creative afternoon. Choose the five large flowers for broad coloring spaces, or the treehouses, tram and pond garden for more small details. The nine pattern circles offer waves, leaves, grids and stripes to compare.

A pattern sampler or a circle garden

Choose one circle to complete, or turn round shapes into flowers.

Nine patterned circles in three rows, with waves, leaves, spirals, a grid, stars and stripes.

Nine pattern circles

Stripes, waves, grids and leaves offer different motions. One circle is enough for a short task.

Dot Day Pattern Circles →
Five round flowers with dots, rings and petals, beneath a small sun.

Circle garden

Five flower heads combine dots, rings and petals. Choose it to connect repeated circles with stems and leaves.

Dot Day Circle Garden →

Make a two-color rule

Print the original line drawing linked below. The numbered areas match the color key and steps; use the colored example as a starting point, then choose your own colors if you prefer.

Digital coloring example

Nine patterned circles, with only the lower-right circle colored in alternating blue and yellow diagonal bands.
A digital color suggestion, not a photograph of a printed result. Open the original line drawing to print and try your own colors.
  • 1. Blue bands
  • 2. Yellow bands
  • 3. Leave other circles white
  1. Color one diagonal band in the lower-right circle blue, then every other band.
  2. Fill the bands between them yellow, keeping the printed lines visible.
  3. Leave the other circles white for a finished small task, or try the same two colors in another circle.

One striped circle is complete when blue and yellow alternate without a missed band.

Make your own circle garden

With paper and pencils, draw three circles. Add stems and leaves, then choose dots, rings or petals for each flower. Repeat the same two colors and give your garden a name.

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