Connect the Dots: Car with a Guide for 4-Year-Olds

Vehicle fans, start your engines: ten numbered dots and a pale dashed guide line turn into a car with a sloping roof and two wheels, for four-year-olds.

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All printables: Dot-to-dot

Connect the dots: car

How to use this worksheet

Place the crayon on the big dot 1 at the bottom left of the car.
Go up to 2, climb the slanting side to 3 and drive along the roof to 4.
Come down through 5 and 6 on the right; 7 is the bottom of the right wheel.
Dots 8 and 9 run between the wheels and 10 is the left wheel; close with 10 to 1.

What this worksheet teaches

The roof is a long straight line across the top, the sides are slanted and each wheel is a small point below the body: three different kinds of stroke in one familiar object. Many children who love vehicles stay focused longer on a car than on an abstract shape. The dashed guide lets a four-year-old practice the order of the numbers 1 to 10 while the drawing takes care of itself.

Play idea

The wheels are pointed, so draw two round wheels over dots 7 and 10. Add windows, headlights and a road underneath. Then drive a toy car along the road you drew and count the dots again as it passes each one.

Questions and answers

Questions from parents

Why are the wheels pointed?

In the easy version each wheel is a single dot below the body. Drawing round wheels over them afterward finishes the car.

Is there a harder car?

Yes, the car for ages 5 to 6 has fifteen dots, a raised cabin and boxy wheels, with no guide.

What if my child starts at dot 10 instead of 1?

Point out the biggest dot: number 1 is always larger than the others, so the start is easy to find.