Dutch primary schools are using Montessori pegboards to introduce children to coding work. The colours and numbers of the code reveal a pattern.

Pupils must work the code, line by line, to build the surprise picture.

Since not every classroom has pegboards, I鈥檝e reworked the principle as a 鈥減aper-and-coloured-pencil鈥� activity for individuals or pairs.

P.S. I protested to my resident IT guru that it seemed a stretch to call this 鈥渃oding鈥� as it looked more like a knitting or weaving pattern to me. 鈥淲ell,鈥� he answered, "The punch cards of the Jacquard loom were direct ancestors of those in early computers鈥�.

I stand corrected!