Australian Aboriginal Dot Art Crafts & Writing Activities | NAIDOC, Sorry Day

❤️Looking for fun and creative ways to celebrate Australian Aboriginal Heritage, NAIDOC Week, or Sorry Day in your classroom?

❤️Your students will love learning about Indigenous dot art and its significance to the Aboriginal People of Australia, while making beautiful writing craft painting projects!

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✏️Use the cultural guide and symbols guide to teach (social studies & history) about dot art and its importance in Australian Indigenous cultures.

✏️Students can choose from 20 animal templates to create their personalized dot art paintings!

✏️Crafts are differentiated! Students can also choose from a variety of writing projects, and writing sheet options (dotted vs. single lines etc.)

✏️Dive deeper with reading comprehension, true or false, vocabulary, and sentence-fixing worksheets!

✏️Use the arts and craft writing projects to meaningfully decorate your bulletin board, classroom, or hallway, while displaying your students' creativity!

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⭐️Great for centers (literacy, writing, art, social studies), whole group lessons, independent work, partner work, indoor recess, sub tub, intervention programs, and more!

⭐️This resource is low prep and will save you time! Simply print and go!

⭐️Create a writing bulletin board, door, or hallway by displaying craftivities!

⭐️Check out the preview and video for more details!

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✅ Includes: (97 pages)

Teaching Materials: (9 pages)

☑ Dot art information (2 pages)

☑ Aboriginal art symbols guide (5 pages)

☑ Aboriginal art symbols cards (2 pages)

Craft Project: (45 pages)

☑ Craft directions (5 pages)

☑ Craft templates - level 1 (20 pages)

☑ Craft templates - level 2 (20 pages)

Writing Projects: (31 pages)

☑ Brainstorming graphic organizers (4 pages)

☑ Animal name tracing - dotted lines (5 pages)

☑ Animal name writing - blank dotted lines (2 pages)

☑ Animal name writing - blank solid lines (2 pages)

☑ "I chose the ________" - blank dotted lines (3 pages)

☑ "I chose the ________ because" - blank solid lines (3 pages)

☑ "My Australian Animal" - dotted lines (1 page)

☑ "My Australian Animal" - solid lines (1 page)

☑ "My Dot Art Story" - dotted lines (1 page)

☑ "My Dot Art Story" - solid lines (1 page)

☑ "All About Dot Art" - dotted lines (1 page)

☑ "All About Dot Art" - solid lines (1 page)

☑ "Animals in Australian Aboriginal Cultures" - dotted lines (1 page)

☑ "Animals in Australian Aboriginal Cultures" - solid lines (1 page)

☑ "Aboriginal Art Symbols" - dotted lines (1 page)

☑ "Aboriginal Art Symbols" - solid lines (1 page)

☑ Blank sheet - dotted lines (1 page)

☑ Blank sheet - solid lines (1 page)

Worksheets: (12 pages)

☑ Reading comprehension (3 pages)

☑ True or False (3 pages)

☑ Vocabulary words (3 pages)

☑ Fix the sentences (3 pages)

✅ Bonus: (102 pages)

☑ What you need to know (1 page)

☑ Table of contents (4 pages)

☑ Black and white set (97 pages)

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✅ Animals included (20):

☑ brolga

☑ cockatoo

☑ crocodile

☑ dingo

☑ dolphin

☑ echidna

☑ emu

☑ flying fox

☑ goanna

☑ kangaroo

☑ koala

☑ magpie

☑ platypus

☑ shark

☑ sugar glider

☑ Tasmanian devil

☑ tiger snake

☑ tree frog

☑ turtle

☑ wombat

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If you have any questions, please contact me: 

kimberly@kimberlysclassroom.com

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look. Wishing you a wonderful school year!

❤️Kimberly