Circle Wreath Craft for Dot Day

A simple circle wreath work great for a circle craft and for Dot Day. Three sizes of circles decorate this simple circle wreath.

Kids will have a blast placing dots around the paper plate to make this fun wreath. And it is really loads of fun to make. And it does not take much time to set it up.

A great craft to make for kids in preschool, prek, and kindergarten for Dot Day.

Circle Wreath Craft for Dot Day - a fun paper plate wreath with different colors of circles glued on the wreath - 3Dinosaurs.com

The Circle Wreath Craft is a great addition to the Shape crafts and the wreath crafts on the site.

What is a Wreath Craft

A wreath is a collection of items around a circle. It can be used as a seasonal decoration around a house.

Circle Wreath Craft

The circle wreath is a fun craft to make for Dot Day! This is a simple wreath with different colors of circles around a paper plate.

You use paper, paper plate and glue to make the wreath.

A Book to Read with this Circle Wreath Craft

The Dot is a great circle book to read. And it goes great with Dot Day. And adds something fun to reading this painting activity for kids.

What we used to make the Circle Wreath Craft

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paper plate
construction paper – a mix of different colors
glue
1 1/2 circle punch
1 inch circle punch
5/8 inch circle punch

How we made the Circle Wreath Craft

You can see the steps below that we used to make the circle wreath craft for kids.

Step 1: Punching out the Circles

You can do 3 or 4 pages of colors at a time. You can also let kids do the punching and see how creative they can be.

You can see we made on several colors of paper at one time.

You can see the circle shape that is makes. Now you are going to want to repeat this a few times to different colors and all three sizes.

You can see the size of the circle we have made. You might need to do more as time goes along but you might want some shapes to start with. You can put the three sizes in little containers as well.

Now you are reading for gluing the circles on the wreath.

Step 2: Glue the 1 1/2 Inch Circles on Paper Plate

We started with the biggest circles that we punched out. You can see that we just places them around the wreath and glued them in different places. Kids will have fun picking out colors and placing them around the wreath.

It is okay if kids only use one color or just a few when doing the circle wreath. Let them make this their own wreath.

Step 3: Glue the 1 Inch Circles on Paper Plate

Next we moved to the 1 inch circles around glued them around the paper plate. We have some with their own space and some overlapping the larger circles on the wreath. It is fun to see how this layers on the paper plate.

And kids can be picky about colors so let them pick their colors that they want to use.