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Little Drawing Adventures: Shapes & Pictures
£2.50
Nine playful shape-and-picture activities, including whole squares, an X-marks-the-treasure beach scene and a final colouring canvas. Includes a grown-up guide; save and reprint for practice with your own children, without buying a new book for every go.
Explore the companion Lines & Paths kit (£2.50), or get both kits in the Two-Kit Bundle for £4 — save £1 compared with buying them separately.
Why print at home?
Learning takes practice. With our printable workbooks, you can revisit a favourite activity, replace a lost or damaged page, or have another go whenever your child needs it—without buying the workbook again. Buy once, save your file, and print what you need for your own family.
Our books are reviewed by parents, teachers and educational psychologists.
Join Bunny’s balloon party, wrap presents for Mouse and help Bear make pictures. Nine illustrated activities move from circles and crossings to whole squares, optional diagonals and a colourful adventure of your child’s own.
Inside Shapes & Pictures
- Finish balloons and bubbles, then draw circles independently.
- Draw crossing ribbons and finish square picture frames.
- Try optional slopes and a triangle roof for Mouse.
- Turn simple shapes into pictures at the friends’ art show.
- Practise a whole square: trace all four sides, copy a model, then draw your own.
- Draw an X on a tropical beach, invent a treasure trail and colour the palm trees, sea and hills.
- Combine lines, circles, squares and a roof on a final drawing-and-colouring canvas.
Includes an A4 activity PDF with 9 activity pages plus 1 licence page (10 pages total), and a separate grown-up guide with 4 guidance pages plus 1 licence page.
Print, play and practise again
Buy once, save your PDF and reprint favourite pages whenever your child wants another go. The same exercises can be enjoyed over and over for practice: there is no need to buy a new activity book each time a page is filled. Try different colours, invent a new story or return to an easier movement. Printing is for your own personal use with your own child or children.
Notes for grown-ups
Choose by readiness. Designed with beginners around ages 3-5 in mind; age is only a guide. Start with scribbles and simple lines. Save corners, slopes, triangles and diagonal crosses until easier movements feel comfortable. There is no need to finish every page.
Set up for a little play. Use a comfortable seat and table, with feet supported where possible. Offer a pencil, washable felt-tip or crayon that makes an easy mark. Let your child choose their hand and steady the page with the other. A comfortable grip matters more here than a perfect grip.
Show, explore, try. Draw a separate example slowly, try the movement with a finger, then use a drawing tool. Read the short instruction aloud. Dotted trails are temporary support: move on to copying and freely chosen marks when your child is ready.
Keep it short and forgiving. Try one activity for 3-5 minutes, or stop sooner. This is a practical suggestion, not a research-established dose. If it becomes frustrating, change activities or come back later. Notice the effort: “You stopped at the dot.” Wobbles are welcome; there is no speed target or score.
Adjust the challenge. Make it easier with a finger first, a bigger example, closer dots or a wider road. Make it a little harder by copying without tracing or inventing a picture with the same movement. Change one thing at a time; touching a path edge does not end the game.
Make room for everyday play. Use these alongside playdough, blocks, finger painting, chalk, drawing with water and plenty of blank paper. Ask your child to tell you about their picture. These are playful practice pages, not a developmental test.
Printing and your download
PDF download; no physical book is posted. Print only the activity pages you want, in A4 portrait, single-sided, at actual size (100%). Black and white is fine. If your printer clips an edge, use fit to printable area. Print one page per sheet so there is room for beginner movements.
The included grown-up guide explains the activity sequence and its basis in public early-years and NHS practice guidance, with five clickable sources. These recommendations do not establish that this pack is better than other approaches. The activities have not yet been trialled with children.
Personal-use licence
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