Help the frog get to its lily pad
One arrow, one dot. Follow the code from the animal down the grid, and the path ends at its own thing — miss a step and it ends at someone else's.
One arrow is one step to the next dot.
A directional coding worksheet generator, printable as a PDF. An animal stands at the top corner of a dotted grid, a code of arrows runs across the top, and along the bottom wait its own thing and four that belong to other animals: the kitten's yarn, the puppy's bone, the bunny's carrot. The child draws the path from dot to dot, one arrow a step; the first step is drawn, and a path that ends at the wrong thing shows a mistake on its own. The goals hang under every other column, so a miscount lands between two goals or on the wrong one, and the child sees it. Pick a 7 by 5 grid with a short code, up to 9 by 9 with 24 steps, and write the code as single arrows or as counted runs like 3 →, the graphic dictation of Eastern European workbooks.
1 token a sheet, fewer in batches.
US Letter PDF — prints on any home printer.
Start
Put your pencil on the dot by the animal.
Draw
For each arrow, draw a line to the next dot that way.
Check
Did the path end at the animal's own thing?
The grid
An animal at the top and its own thing among four others at the bottom — the frog's lily pad, the puppy's bone. One step off and the path ends at someone else's.
The code
Your worksheet lands here — download, print, or email it.