This activity was one of my favourites in primary school. Pictures created using lines were really popular at the time; they could be drawn, sewn using card and thread or created with nails and thin wire.
As a tutor, I have used the activity to support my students with learning the multiplication tables. The activity is good practice for drawing lines with a ruler and develops the fine motor skills.
Use the templates and images below to create your own curved stitching patterns. You can adapt them so that the student draws a line from dot 1 to dot 1 or use a multiplication table, e.g. 1 to 4, 2 to 8, etc.
Straight
Lines to Curved Lines 1
Straight
Lines to Curves Lines 2
Straight
Lines to
Curved
Lines 3
This pattern has been created by drawing a line to every fifth dot. When I was at school we would continue to count - 15, 16, 17, 28, 19, 20 ... (sometimes writing the numbers by the dot) so that we were drawing lines to the next multiple of 5.
