Easter Trace the Shapes for Preschoolers
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Learning shapes as part of preschool math can be fun, especially when you do hands-on activities. That is why I created these tracing shapes worksheets, which I hope will become a fantastic resource for you and your preschoolers. They don’t need much preparation, and they will help your children learn their shape names and practice forming them in such a fun way that they won’t even notice that they are learning.
These free printable shape worksheets are at the end of this post. You have to click on the bottom to download your PDF.
These types of activities can help your children develop their fine motor skills and drawing abilities, which will get the small muscles in your children’s hands, fingers, and thumbs ready for writing, mainly because tracing shapes involves pencil strokes similar to those needed to trace letters and numbers.
Easter Trace the Shapes
I wanted to create a complete activity that will help you and your students in a variety of ways. That is the reason I added what could be considered three activities in one.
This free Easter Trace the Shapes activity includes twenty-two pages with:
- Two with multiple shapes on them.
- ten pages with one traceable shape and shape name for each shape (rectangle, oval, triangle, pentagon, circle, square, star, hexagon, rhombus, and trapezoid), and
- 10 shape mats, one for each shape. The shape mats are primarily black and white to save on ink.
Making Reusable Tracing Printables
To reuse these printables, print them on cardstock and laminate them (or use a dry-erase pocket) to protect them. Doing this and adding it ,to your Easter printables collection will have this activity ready to go next year. That way, your planning time will be shorter and easier.
To get this Easter Print the Shapes activity ready, you will need these materials:
- The FREE Easter Trace the Shapes packet is found at the end of this post.
- printer
- White cardstock
- Scissors
- Laminator
- Laminator paper
- Dry-erase pouches
This Easter Trace the Shapes activity can be used as a small group activity, Math center option, Writing center option, take-home activity, or Quiet area option. You can also use it as a Literacy activity, to review the beginning letters and sounds and the names of the shapes. I suggest providing your children with dry-erase markers or playdough and encouraging them to say the name of the shape they are tracing.
Extension Activities:
I think it is vital to extend the activities you do. At least some of them. That will allow your preschoolers to learn what they need because not all children learn the same way.
Some of the ideas I can give you to extend this activity are:
- Have the children copy the shapes on a white sheet of paper using pencils.
- Match each shape with a plastic shape, a Tangram puzzle piece, or a wooden block.
- Find the shapes they are tracing in objects around the classroom.
- As a cutting practice, use safety scissors.
- You can print them on regular paper, have the children color the shapes with colored pencils, markers, or crayons, cut them out with safety scissors, and glue them onto construction paper.
- Paste stickers on the borders.
- Trace and erase activity: have the children trace the laminated shape with a dry-erase marker, then erase it with their finger.
- As a playdough mat, roll playdough into a long snake, then place the “snake” on the border of the shapes.
- Use other small manipulatives to “trace” the shapes, such as mini erasers, stickers, and buttons.
Some children might have a little difficulty at the beginning with some of these activities, but practicing will help them get it right and will give them another opportunity to work on their fine motor skills.
Pin It For Later
If you are in a rush and don’t have time to read the post and download the printable, but want to save it for later, pin this to your Math or Easter board on Pinterest.
In my humble opinion, you will never have too many activities to offer your children. Not all children learn the same way or are interested in the same things. Offering them choices will keep them all engaged and help them develop the skills they need to build a solid foundation for mathematical equations and the fine motor skills required for writing in Kindergarten.
Don’t forget to grab your free Easter Trace the Shapes printable! I hope you have found it helpful. Just enter your email address in the box to confirm the subscription, and the PDF file will open instantly for you to print and save. If you are currently a subscriber, you won’t be subscribed twice.
Then check out other Easter and St. Patrick’s Day activities with FREE printables below, and get them too, to expand your activities collection, and help your preschoolers have fun while learning.
Be happy, safe, and creative. I wish you well.
Love,
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