Tracing (Lines, Curves, Shapes)

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, majority of the people around the world are being told to stay home to stop the spread.

For parents and educators around the world, please feel free to download some tracing worksheets (i.e. tracing lines, tracing curves, tracing shapes) for your children to work on as needed.

Personally, I tend to teach children to trace lines before moving on to curves and then moving on to shapes.
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Tracing Straight Lines

Sample of tasks in the tracing straight lines worksheets.

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Tracing Curved Lines

Sample of tasks in the tracing curved lines worksheets

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Tracing Shapes

An example of a common error children tend to make when tracing. One of ways of teaching them to follow the line can be seen in the above example where the child is taught to join the lines separately.
Sample of tasks in the tracing shapes worksheets

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Happy tracing! Please comment below if more tips or ideas on free worksheets/ materials that would be useful are needed! Stay safe!

3 thoughts on “Tracing (Lines, Curves, Shapes)

  1. Thank you so much for your incredible website.

    I was wondering how you would create a goal for tracing without it leaning into the academic field?

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    1. Hi Ettil, it’s great you find the content useful! Tracing can be done in other ways without a pencil, such as getting the individual to trace on sand, or use their fingers to trace an image or shape instead. By placing the simple shapes lines and curves together, we can teach the individual to trace flowers, bees, cars, etc. which would be a more interesting way of tracing. If you are looking more at a copying skill, (see and do) rather than pencil and paper, you might be looking at the imitation skills of the individual instead.

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