How to Draw a Circle and Its Centre Without Lifting Your Pencil
If you want to have some fun, pose this task as a challenge to your friends, then show them how it is done. Show them a figure like the one at the right. Easy, right? The challenge is this: draw it without lifting the pencil from the paper. If you think it can’t be done, read on to find out how.
In the middle of the paper, draw a large dot.
- Fold over the paper.Fold over the edge of the paper so that it touches the pencil. Don’t crease the paper. Don’t move the pencil off the paper.
- Draw up onto the fold.Move the pencil up onto the folded paper
- Draw a quarter cirle, Draw a quarter circle, bringing your pencil to the edge of the folded-over paper. Draw right down off the edge.
- Unfold the paper. You’re now right where you need to be.
- Draw the circle. Draw a circle with the dot at the center.
