The first thing my kids notice is how bright and colorful the carvings were. We also talked about how the design featured a lot of dots.

Plan and Paint

To duplicate the effect, we used a base of white to keep the colors bright and toothpicks to make our dots.

My kids quickly learned how important it was to plan their designs ahead by tracing their llamas and practicing their design. I found the students that did not practice first we unhappy with their results.

Here’s one idea I played with:

I also encourage practicing making dots with both ends of the toothpick for different dot sizes.