Pencil Practice: Free Line & Shape Tracing Worksheets
14 pages
Print at 100% (actual size). A4 for India, the UK and Europe; US Letter for the US and Canada.
Free to download and print for personal, home and classroom use. Not for resale or redistribution.
Pencil Practice is a pack of pre writing worksheets for toddlers: 11 activity pages full of dotted lines and simple shapes to trace. It is busier than Pencil Fun, with denser rows and longer patterns, so it works well as the next step.
What's inside: rows of wavy lines, scallops and waves, little boats above bumpy lines, zig-zags and loops, curly lines with arrows, overlapping fish-scale rows, wiggly paths that start from small bugs, chains of circles and diamonds that lead to fish, and fish followed by wave, loop and square-wave patterns. One page has six shapes to trace: a square, circle, triangle, hexagon, crescent moon and star. Every page says "Trace the dotted lines, then colour!" and has Name and Date lines. The book ends with a "Super Star Learner!" certificate.
Age: the cover says Age 2–4. Rows can be long for a two-year-old, so it is fine to trace just one row.
How to print: choose the A4 PDF (or US Letter in the US and Canada), print at 100% scale ("actual size"), and use colour or black and white. The lines print clearly either way.
Tips for parents:
- Let your child colour the boats, bugs and fish after tracing; it makes a good reward.
- Short and happy beats long and tired. Praise the effort.
Find more on our tracing books page, start with Pencil Fun if this feels too busy, or try Smiley Shapes. The app guide Little Messages is another small activity to share. Get the Chunnu Ji app on Google Play.
Questions parents ask
Should we do Pencil Fun or Pencil Practice first?
Pencil Fun first. Its lines are fewer and run from a green dot to a star. Pencil Practice has denser rows and longer patterns.
Does Pencil Practice include letters?
No. It has lines, patterns and simple shapes only, with no letters or numbers.
Which shapes are in it?
One page has a square, a circle, a triangle, a hexagon, a crescent moon and a star to trace.
