Easter Trace the Shapes Activity 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 are I hope will become a wonderful 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 can be found at the end of this post. You just have to click on the bottom to download your pdf.
Benefits of This Activity
These types of activities can help your children develop their fine motor skills and drawing abilities, which will get the small muscles on your children’s hands, fingers, and thumbs ready for writing, especially because tracing shapes involves pencil strokes similar to those needed to trace letters and numbers.
Easter Trace the Shapes Activity
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 it
- 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 mostly black and white to save on ink.
Making Reusable Tracing Printables
To be able to reuse these printables you just need to print them out on cardstock paper and laminate them (or use a dry-erase pocket) to protect them. Doing this and adding it to your Easter printables collection will allow you to have this activity ready to go for 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 name of the shapes. I will suggest providing your children with dry-erase markers or playdough and encouraging the children to say the name of the shape they are tracing.
Extension Activities
I think it is important 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 where the children trace the laminated shape with a dry-erase marker and 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 for later.
Getting It All Together
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 will help them develop the necessary skills they will need to create a solid foundation for mathematical equations and the necessary fine motor development to write in Kindergarten.
Don’t forget to grab your free Easter Trace the Shapes printable! I hope you havefind it useful. 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 the rest of my 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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