Can I sell the sheets I make?

Yes. The pictures are built here out of circles, arcs and straight lines, so there is no stock library behind them, no AI model, and nothing traced from anybody else’s artwork. Nothing needs licensing and there is no attribution to give. That is a deliberate choice about where the pictures come from rather than a promise about what you do with them once they are printed. It is worth being precise about why: the promise is not that you may sell whatever you make here, but that the picture itself carries nothing that could turn out to belong to somebody else. A tool that hands you a blank grid and lets you fill it can only promise the first half.

How many dots should a young child have?

Ten to twenty is usual for a child who has just learned their numbers, because the point is the counting as much as the drawing. Forty upwards suits a child who is confident to a hundred and wants the picture to be a surprise.

Will the finished picture actually look like the thing it says?

Yes, and that is checked rather than hoped for. The line you get by joining the dots in order is measured against the outline the dots were taken from, and a sheet where the two have drifted apart is never offered.

Can I print the same sheet again next term?

Type a word into the seed box. The same word always gives the same picture and the same numbering.

Connect the Dots Generator

A join-the-dots picture is a promise: start at one, keep going, and you will have drawn something. This makes the picture first and the dots afterwards, so the promise holds. The dots are placed on the corners before anywhere else — a roof with no dot on its point joins up into a shed — and the rest are shared out along the sides so the spacing stays even. Two dots close enough to be mistaken for one become a single dot, and two numbers that would print on top of each other are not allowed onto the page at all. The pictures themselves are drawn here from circles, arcs and straight lines rather than taken from a picture library or produced by an AI model, so a sheet you make is yours to print, hand out or sell without licensing anything or crediting anyone.

Picture

Difficulty

The ages are a rough guide to who a level suits. What the setting actually changes is how much of the shape is drawn — a harder sheet has more curves and corners to follow, not a smaller picture or a fainter line.

How many dots

Between 8 and 90. Fewer are used if the picture cannot carry that many.

Print the eyes, windows and other small marks

Seed (optional)

A word gives back exactly the same sheet.

Paper size

Print size

Margin

Millimetres of blank edge, 5 to 40.

Turn the paper sideways

How to print this, or save it as a PDF

There is no PDF to download, and there does not need to be. Open the print command in your browser and choose “Save as PDF” as the destination. The page addresses and dates a browser normally prints across the top and bottom are already kept off.
Set the scale to 100%, not “fit to page”. This sheet is already the exact size of the paper you chose, so anything that resizes it makes every measurement on it wrong.
Leave the paper size in the dialog set to the same one you chose here.

Your join-the-dots sheet will appear here.

What this generator does

Turns a line drawing into a numbered route around it, places a dot on every corner so the finished line keeps the shape, and prints the completed picture as an answer page.

How to use this tool

Choose a picture and how hard you want the sheet to be.
Set how many dots you want, anywhere from ten to ninety.
Make the sheet. The dots and their numbers appear on the page as they will print.
Show the answer if you want the joined-up picture on a second sheet.
Give a seed if you will need the same sheet again for another class.

Understanding the controls

Picture: Which drawing the dots go round. It changes the shape entirely, not just the label at the top.
Difficulty: How much of the shape gets drawn. A harder setting means more curves and more corners to go round, not a fainter line.
How many dots: Up to ninety. If the picture cannot carry that many without the numbers crowding, you get the most it will take rather than an unreadable sheet.
Print the small marks: Adds the eyes, windows and other details to the puzzle sheet so the finished picture has some life in it.
Seed: A word gives back exactly the same picture with exactly the same numbering, which is what you want for thirty copies.

Common use cases

Counting practice that ends in something worth keeping
A quiet activity for a child who has finished early
A party bag sheet that needs no cutting out
Number recognition beyond twenty, where a hundred squares gets dull
A waiting-room activity that needs only a pencil

Randomness and fairness

The figure and the placement of its dots come from your browser's cryptographic random source unless you give a seed, in which case the same seed redraws the same picture with the dots numbered identically — that is reproducibility, not cryptographic strength.

For how randomness is produced across the whole site, see how Generate Random works.

Limitations and good to know

These are geometric figures rather than portraits. A house, a star or a kite comes out well; nobody is going to get a recognisable dinosaur or a named breed of dog out of this.
The pictures are simple line drawings built from circles, arcs and straight sides. They are not detailed illustrations, and they are not characters from books or films.
A few pictures cannot be told in ten dots — a spiral is the obvious one — and at the easiest setting those come back and ask you to choose another.

Frequently asked questions

Can I sell the sheets I make?: Yes. The pictures are built here out of circles, arcs and straight lines, so there is no stock library behind them, no AI model, and nothing traced from anybody else’s artwork. Nothing needs licensing and there is no attribution to give. That is a deliberate choice about where the pictures come from rather than a promise about what you do with them once they are printed. It is worth being precise about why: the promise is not that you may sell whatever you make here, but that the picture itself carries nothing that could turn out to belong to somebody else. A tool that hands you a blank grid and lets you fill it can only promise the first half.
How many dots should a young child have?: Ten to twenty is usual for a child who has just learned their numbers, because the point is the counting as much as the drawing. Forty upwards suits a child who is confident to a hundred and wants the picture to be a surprise.
Will the finished picture actually look like the thing it says?: Yes, and that is checked rather than hoped for. The line you get by joining the dots in order is measured against the outline the dots were taken from, and a sheet where the two have drifted apart is never offered.
Can I print the same sheet again next term?: Type a word into the seed box. The same word always gives the same picture and the same numbering.