Circles Tracing Worksheet — Large Patterns, Draw from the Model, 4 Rows, Ages 5–6
Big round circles stand on the bottom line of four large rows, one solid and one dashed at the start of each, so children aged 5–6 practice closing a circle without tracing.
1 A4 page · for home and classroom use
Circles
How to use this worksheet
- Start at the dot on the left side of the solid circle and go round counterclockwise: down, along the bottom, up the right side and over the top back to the start.
- Trace the dashed circle next to it, then draw the rest of the row yourself, lifting the pencil between circles.
- Each circle should touch both guide lines and close exactly where it began, with a small gap before the next one.
What this worksheet teaches
Circles drawn counterclockwise follow the same direction as the round letters c, a, d, g, o and q, so this card rehearses the most common curve in print handwriting. Closing a circle cleanly means the hand plans a full turn and finishes at the start point, and doing it without a trace trains size judgement. Most children copy a circle well before five, so at 5–6 the challenge is quality: round rather than oval, closed rather than open, and the same size across four large rows.
Play idea
Soap bubbles: each circle is a bubble. Your child adds a shine mark to the roundest bubble in each row and pops the wobbliest one with a finger tap.