Dot-to-Dot: Magic Potion
Toddler · 2–3A potion bottle in 28 dots: a round belly and a narrow neck with a stopper. Most of the page is one long easy curve and the detail is all at the top, so a younger child gets most of the way through before meeting anything fiddly. Then color the potion whatever colour it ought to be. Free printable, ages three to six.
Easy for most of the way
The round belly of the bottle is one long gentle curve and takes up most of the twenty-eight dots. All the fiddly bits — the neck and the stopper — are at the very top, so a younger child gets most of the way through before meeting anything hard.
Then decide what is in it
The colouring is the open question on this page rather than the drawing, and it is worth asking what the potion does before they pick a colour.
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 potion bottle 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.