Birthday Cakes Tracing Worksheet — Medium Patterns with Half Tracing for Ages 5–6
Birthday cakes built from two rectangular tiers, an icing drip and one candle repeat in five medium rows; your child traces the first half of each row, then continues alone. Ages 5–6.
1 A4 page · for home and classroom use
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How to use this worksheet
- Every cake in the row repeats two rectangular tiers, a wavy icing drip on the top tier and a single candle with a flame, at the size of the dashed cakes.
- The dashes cover roughly the first half of each row; in the empty part your child builds each cake from the bottom up, lower tier first, so the top tier and candle always have a base to stand on.
What this worksheet teaches
The traced cakes show how wide each tier is, and building the rest alone trains your child to repeat that width, keep the icing waves even and space the cakes.
Play idea
Run a bakery: your child decides who each freehand cake is for and writes that person's first letter on the bottom tier.
Questions and answers
Questions from parents
How many icing waves should a freehand cake have?
About as many as on the traced cakes; counting the waves on the last dashed cake and repeating that number keeps the row in rhythm.
What age is this worksheet for?
Children aged 5–6 — they trace five or six medium cakes per row and then draw four or five alone, a step between the fully dashed cakes and the sheet where only the model is given.
What if the cakes drawn without dashes get wider and wider toward the end of the row?
Ask your child to check that each lower tier is as wide as the dashed one before it, and to leave a small gap between cakes; fixing the width first makes the icing and candle easier.