Connect the Dots: Duck with a Guide for Age 4
From tail to bill and around the belly: nine dots and a pale dashed guide show four-year-olds how to draw a duck facing right.
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Connect the dots: duck
How to use this worksheet
- Start at the large dot 1, the tip of the tail on the left.
- Draw along the back to 2, up the neck to 3 and over the head to 4.
- Dot 5 is the tip of the bill and 6 is just beneath it; then go down the chest to 7.
- Dots 8 and 9 make the round belly; close with 9 to 1.
What this worksheet teaches
The duck's head rises steeply from its back, so the child meets a clear change of direction early on. The bill is a sharp point between 4, 5 and 6, a short out-and-back movement that needs a careful stop. Tracing the dashed guide through nine dots gives four-year-olds a whole animal to finish without the worry of losing their way.
Play idea
Put the duck on a pond: draw wavy water under its belly, a round eye near dot 4 and a few little ducklings following in a line. Say "quack" at every number while retracing the outline with a finger.
Questions and answers
Questions from parents
Which way is the duck facing?
To the right. Dot 5 is the tip of its bill, and the tail is at dot 1 on the left.
Is there a harder duck?
Yes, the 13-dot duck for ages 5 to 6 has no guide, a more detailed head and bill, and an answer key.
My child cannot yet say all the numbers. Is that okay?
Yes. Read each number to your child as the crayon arrives; hearing and seeing them together is how the numerals are learned.