Spring Shape Tracing for Preschoolers

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These FREE Spring Shape Tracing activities will Bring something different to your preschool classroom during this season, to help your kiddos work on the development of the small muscles of their hands working on pre-writing skills, reinforcing shape recognition, shape discrimination, fine motor skills, and the children’s concentration and focus.

The pack includes ten shapes: circle, triangle, square, rectangle, oval, star, rhombus, pentagon, octagon, and hexagon. You can get it at the end of this post.

How to Prepare the Spring Shape Tracing Activities

This low-prep Spring Shape Tracing activity pack will only require:

Free Spring Shape Tracing activities pack (find at the end of this post).
Printer.
White paper or cardstock.
Laminator or dry-erase pockets.
Pencils, crayons, or markers, or dry-erase markers.

If you want to use these activities individually, print them on white paper, and have the children use a pencil, crayon, or marker to trace the shapes and words. But, if you want them to be used multiple times, I suggest printing them on white cardstock and laminating them, or placing them in a dry-erase, and having the children use a dry-erase marker to trace them.

Give the child one worksheet at a time, and have him/her name the shape, trace the different versions of the shape on the page, trace the name of the shape, and finally free hand the name of the shape.

These activities can be used as a small group activity, Writing and Math centers option, take-home game, or Quiet area option.

To make it more fun and give your children more variety and choices, add Spring writing materials and manipulatives, and combine them with my other Spring activities. They all come with free printables and you can get them by just clicking on the links below:

To extend the activity you can use it to:

Spell the name of the shapes.
Match each shape with magnetic or wooden shapes.
Use play dough to sculpt the shapes.

Don’t Forget Your Stories

I always recommend including story books related to each theme, making sure you add new ones to your library, book baskets, and centers. These are some of my favorite Spring stories. You can find them at your local library, used book store, or Amazon. For your convenience, I added my affiliate links to each title, which will take you to the Amazon website in seconds.

Spring is Here: a Bear and Mole Story by Will Hillenbrand. Full of simple sound words and lots of repetition, this book will engage preschoolers in celebrating this season, using mixed-media illustrations, details, and humor.

Lola Plants a Garden by Lola McQuinn. This story talks about a little girl who wants to plant some flowers, and with the help of her mom buys the seeds, makes the garden, marks the rows, and watches the flowers bloom.

When Spring Comes by Kevin Henkes. In this beautiful book for young children, the author uses striking imagery, repetition, and alliteration to introduce basic concepts of language and the changing seasons.

I Am Spring by Rebecca McDonald. This sweet story takes young children on a journey through the many important events that occur uniquely in the beautiful growing season of Spring.

What Can You See in Spring? by Sian Smith. Using beautiful photos, simple repeated text, high frequency and decodable words, and strong photo-to-text matching, this book shows children things they can see in spring including typical spring activities and new life and growth in the natural world.

Goodbye Winter Hello Spring by Kenard Pak. This story is about a boy and his dog exploring nature and how they say goodbye to winter and spring.

I See Spring by Charles Ghigna. This story celebrates the season of Spring with a rhyming, easy-to-read test about raindrops, robins, bluebells, and butterflies!

It Just Blooms by Deanna Chesley. This story will help children of all ages understand that they are perfect just the way they are, and that they can bloom in their special way and in their own perfect time!
Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert. This author uses this book to teach young children about colors and flowers.

The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle. A classic story that talks about the life cycle of a flower through the adventures of a tiny seed, perfect for the children to act out the story and use it as an inspiration to create their wildflower garden.

Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt by Kate Messner. This sweet story talks about things you see in the garden like leaves and sprouts, growing vegetables, and ripening fruit, the world of earthworms digging, snakes hunting, skunks burrowing, and all the other animals that make a garden their home.

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 it to your Spring or math boards on Pinterest.

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Be happy, safe, and creative. I wish you well.

Love,