Types of Lines Posters Pack

Twelve or more named line types — bumpy, curved, zigzag, wavy, loopy, spiral, dotted, dashed, slanted, vertical, and horizontal among them — are displayed as labelled examples across colour and black-and-white poster versions plus two practice worksheets.
Year groups
Years 3–6 (Key Stage 2)
Pages
53
File type
PDF
Preparation
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Updated Sep 27, 2026

Subject
Art, Creative Arts
Topic
Art, Graphics
Resource types
Posters, Worksheets & Printables
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About this resource

This 53-page PDF includes illustrated art-line posters in colour and black-and-white layouts, additional line-vocabulary references and tracing/drawing practice. Select one-type or two-type pages for display and use the blank drawing grid for students’ examples.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Identify and name common line types, such as curved, zigzag, wavy, spiral, and dotted lines.

  • Draw an example of a named line type on a practice worksheet.

  • Distinguish between related line-type vocabulary, such as vertical vs. horizontal or thick vs. thin.

Teaching tips

  • Choose the colour poster set for wall display and the black-and-white, one-type-per-page version for individual student reference sheets or colouring.

  • Use the "Let's Practice Lines" drawing worksheet as a follow-up task right after introducing the poster set, since it reuses the same line-type vocabulary.

  • Introduce the bonus terms (short, long, thick, thin, diagonal) as a second lesson once students are comfortable with the core poster vocabulary.

Skills covered

  • Line-type identification — students name and recognise lines such as zigzag, wavy, spiral, and dotted from labelled visual examples.

  • Fine motor drawing practice — students draw their own examples of named line types on a practice worksheet.

  • Vocabulary matching — students connect line-type words to their visual representations.

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Concepts & topics

Core concepts

  • Types of lines

  • Art vocabulary

  • Fine motor skills

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