Hard dot to dot printables
50 outlines at the hard and expert counts, the densest levels on the site. Every card reports its real number of dots and sharp corners.
36 printable sheets ·
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Nora Quill
Trees, leaves and the outdoors
Bare winter tree, leafy tree, big maple leaf, bundle of wheat, wheat sheaf, sunflower with a ladybird, bicycle with a basket and a spinosaurus. This group spans the whole range of the page: the bare tree has 67 sharp corners and a 977 mm path, the sunflower 63, while the leafy tree has only 8. The two wheat pictures sit between them at 41 and 33.
Halloween figures
A standing skeleton, a dancing skeleton, a witch on a broom and a hanging bat, each joined from 80 dots. Sharp corners stay between 13 and 21, so the four sheets are evenly matched. The standing skeleton is the longest route at about 452 mm, and the witch on her broom the shortest at about 338 mm.
Christmas trees and gingerbread
Two gingerbread men and two decorated trees, one with a cat and one with an owl. The gingerbread men are the smoothest outlines in the expert tier, with only 4 and 3 sharp corners over about 300 mm. The tree with a cat turns 20 times and the tree with an owl 17; the owl tree is also the only sheet here at 78 dots.
Hard flowers, animals and autumn
Twenty more hard outlines that were not yet on this page: flowers, cats, dinosaurs, autumn leaves and a few holiday figures, each at the hard point count.
About 80 dots, one step past the hard tier
The 50 outlines here use the expert tier, the most dots per outline anywhere on the site: 80 dots on every sheet except the Christmas tree with an owl, which closes at 78. That is a full step above the 58-dot hard tier used for the adult page and for the top level of the main collection. More dots on a picture of the same size means shorter hops between numbers and a longer sequence to keep in order.
Does a higher dot count always mean a harder sheet?
No. Every sheet here has about 80 dots, yet the effort varies widely. The smiling gingerbread man turns sharply only 4 times and the one with icing swirls 3, so the pencil glides. The bare winter tree turns 67 times along roughly 977 mm of line, and the sunflower with a ladybird 63. Read the sharp-corner figure before printing.
Trees, Halloween or Christmas: picking a group
The outdoors group holds both ends of the scale: the bare winter tree and the ladybird sunflower are the toughest sheets on the page, while the leafy tree, with 8 corners, is one of the calmest. The Halloween figures sit in a narrow band of 13 to 21 corners, which makes them an even middle choice for October. The Christmas group is the gentlest overall, led by the two gingerbread men, and the trees with a cat and an owl add a little more angle.
Who should print the expert tier
Someone who has finished the 58-dot pictures for adults and wants longer sequences, or an older child who counts confidently to 80 and has a steady hand. Younger counters will do better on the mixed-level dot to dot page, where the shortest sheets have about 22 dots. Anyone after holiday pictures at gentler counts can use Christmas dot to dot.
Printing dense outlines
With 80 numbers on one A4 page the labels sit close together, so print at actual size or 100 percent. Don't use fit to page, and don't shrink the sheet onto smaller paper. A minimum gap is kept between consecutive dots, but there is little room to spare. The 15 mm margin keeps the file whole on US Letter. The dots come first in each PDF and the finished outline is the last page, so checking the picture takes one glance. Each description ends with a puzzle number tied to that exact sheet, so a favorite is easy to find again.
How to use these sheets
- Pick a sheet and press Print. The file is a PDF sized for A4 and Letter paper.
- Print it in black and white at normal quality. None of these sheets need colour ink except the colour by number pages.
- Keep the answer page for yourself, or print it too if you want to check the work later.