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Follow the direction of children's natural interests in line patterns and trajectory movements to take their learning further across the curriculum, says Diana Lawton When provision is rich and open-ended, children will demonstrate their interest in lines in many different ways. This may include lining up objects; building up; using the body to move up and down or to move things through the air (for example, throwing or squirting water); following a path with a start and end point; and representing lines with language, paint or clay.