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Dotted Lines
A dotted line is made of small dots or dashes with spaces between them. Instead of one continuous mark, it is a series of small marks that your eyes connect together!
Dotted lines are used in many places. On maps, dotted lines show trails or borders. On paper, dotted lines show where to cut with scissors. In drawings, dotted lines can show something invisible, like the path a ball takes through the air or the trail left by a bug.
To draw a dotted line, touch your pencil to the paper, lift it up, move a tiny bit, and touch it down again. Try to keep your dots the same size and the same distance apart. You can make dots, small dashes, or even tiny circles!