It should not be complicated: Create an application which runs through a path in a illustrator file, adds spots at the end of each subpath and adding increasing numbers for each point. The result would be a new illustrator file which small kids could then use to play with.

Here is a manually created example. The example is a rough Oh, and if this sort of “drawing path” has a name which you know, please write it in a comment – you see I don’t know a name, not even in my Danish