Dot-to-Dot: Magic Crown
Toddler · 2–3A crown in 28 dots, and the sharpest shape in the set: five points, each one a pencil stop and a change of direction. Stopping cleanly at a corner is harder than drawing a long line, and this page is almost nothing but corners. Cut it out when it is colored. Free to print on A4 or US Letter, ages three to six.
Almost nothing but corners
Five points, and each one is a full stop and a change of direction. Stopping cleanly at a corner is harder than drawing a long line — it is the same skill that separates tracing a square from tracing a circle — and this page is corners from end to end.
What to look for
Whether the pencil actually halts at each point, or rounds it off. Rounded crown points mean the hand is still moving through the corner, which is ordinary at three and worth noticing rather than correcting.
Frequently asked questions
- Why does every page go up to 28?
- So there is no easy page and no hard page to sort first. A child who can count to twenty-eight can do the crown and every other picture in the set.
- Why are these all objects rather than animals?
- Because joining dots gives you an outline, and an animal's outline is a lump — what makes an owl an owl is its face, which sits inside the shape. A key, a crown or a stocking is recognisable from its edge alone.