Eggplants Tracing Worksheet — Medium Patterns with Half Tracing for Ages 5–6
Dashed eggplants (eggplants) fill about half of each of five medium rows; 5–6 year olds trace them first, then draw the rest leaning at the same slant.
1 A4 page · for home and classroom use
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How to use this worksheet
- The free eggplants copy the traced ones: a long oval, bent a little and lying on a slant, with a small jagged cap on the top end and a short stem.
- The dashed eggplants reach about the middle of each of the five rows; after that your child draws the rest alone, keeping every vegetable leaning the same way.
What this worksheet teaches
Once the dashes stop, a 5–6 year old has to keep two things steady at once: the angle of the body and its length. Letting one eggplant stand straighter or grow rounder is easy, so comparing each new one with the last traced vegetable becomes part of the task. The zigzag cap then has to fit the edge it sits on, which trains small, controlled strokes.
Play idea
Garden rows: in the free half, your child draws a short line of soil under each eggplant and counts how many are ready to pick at the end of the row.
Questions and answers
Questions from parents
The cap on the free eggplants gets too big. What helps?
Keep it short: a few small points across the top end only, then the stem. On the traced eggplants the cap covers just a small part of the body.
What age is this worksheet for?
Children aged 5–6 — half of each row of medium eggplants is traced and the other half drawn freehand, good practice for a slanted curve without full support.
What if the freehand eggplants come out round, like apples?
Compare them with the last dashed eggplant: it is long and thin and lies at a slant; stretch the next one out before adding the cap.