Mirror Drawing

Drawing with a pencil in each hand at the same time, the two hands making mirror images. In patterns, each row starts either side of a dashed line down the middle and runs out to the edges: waves, humps, zigzags, castle walls and loops, the left one the mirror of the right, between two faint rails. In halves, a picture that is the same on both sides is turned into a dot-to-dot with both halves numbered alike: both pencils start on dot 1 at the top and join the dots down both sides at once, and the picture appears when they meet at the bottom. Mirror movements are the easiest way for two hands to work together, so start here. The answer page shows the finished pictures.

Age

ages 5–9

Answer key

Included, free

Skills

fine motorpencil controlconcentration

What you can change

• Draw

  Mirror patterns, Dot-to-dot halves

• Patterns

  A mixture, Curves, Corners

• Rows

  2–7

• Picture

  A different one each page, Heart, Butterfly, Fir tree, House, Rocket…

• Pictures

  1–2

• Dots on each side

  5–16

• Every page also takes the book's language, page size, theme and pictures.