Trace the Shapes Worksheets is a set of twenty free printable shape tracing sheets for preschool and kindergarten. Every page is filled with twelve dashed shapes in neat rows, ready for little hands to trace. Children work through circles, squares and triangles, then move on to trickier shapes like trapezoids, parallelograms, kites and quarter circles.
Each sheet has a space for the child’s name and grade at the top, and the same clean layout on every page, so children can settle in and trace with confidence. Print the sheets in any order and repeat favourites as often as you like.
Shape Tracing Practice for Twenty Shapes
Tracing shapes builds the curves, corners and straight lines that letters are made of. A circle becomes the letter o, a triangle’s point leads to the letter a, and steady straight lines prepare children for letters like l, t and h. With twelve shapes on every page, this set gives plenty of repetition without ever feeling like hard work.
Start with the round shapes, circles, ovals and semicircles, then try the corner shapes. Stars, hearts, crosses and arrows keep practice playful, and the full set covers the shapes children meet in preschool and kindergarten maths. Every set in this family sits inside our wider shapes worksheets collection, where the tracing and colouring sets live side by side. You will find this set in our preschool worksheets collection, alongside the other sets made for ages 3 to 5. You will find this set in our kindergarten worksheets collection, alongside the other sets made for ages 5 to 6. Every one of these trace the shapes worksheets is a free printable PDF, ready for pencils, crayons and little hands.
