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Follow the line, collect the code

Each picture has a line that zigzags down through rows of digits, crossing the others. Keep your eye on yours, and the digits it touches spell its code.

How it works
Ages5–9TypeFocus

Keep your eye on one line.

A visual tracking worksheet generator, printable as a PDF. A row of pictures — counting things, vegetables, sea creatures, space or farm animals — and under it rows of boxes with a digit in each, joined by straight lines that cross on the way down. Follow one picture's line, write down the digit in every box it reaches, and the code goes in the table at the bottom. Choose 4, 5 or 6 lines and codes of 3, 4 or 5 digits; no line ever goes straight down, so every one crosses others, and every code on a sheet is different. With an answer key.

Make a sheet

1 token a sheet, fewer in batches.
US Letter PDF — prints on any home printer.

A Follow the Lines sheet
1

Pick

Start at one picture at the top.

2

Follow

Trace its line down — a finger helps where lines cross.

3

Write

Each box it reaches gives one digit of the code.

Lines

More lines, more crossings to keep track of.

Code length

Number of sheets

Your worksheet lands here — download, print, or email it.