Circles Tracing Worksheet — Medium Patterns, Half Tracing, 5 Rows, Ages 5–6 (Sheet 2)

Separate circles stand on the bottom line in five medium rows for 5–6 year olds; dashed circles lead about halfway, and the rest of each row is filled with circles drawn alone.

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All printables: Tracing lines

Circles

How to use this worksheet

Start on the dark dot at the left side of the circle, go down, around the bottom, up the right side and over the top back to the start.
Trace to the last dashed circle, then carry on in the empty half: four or five more circles, each the size of the dashed ones.
Close each circle where it began, lift the pencil and leave the same small gap as in the traced part.

What this worksheet teaches

A circle is one of the first shapes children copy, but drawing it round, closed and the same size many times in a row is harder. Going counterclockwise matches the way letters such as a, c, d, g and o are formed. The free half of each row asks a 5–6 year old to keep the size and spacing without dashes, the same control that makes round letters look even in a word.

Variation to try

Coin purse: the circles your child drew alone become coins. They write a small number inside each coin, starting from 1, and at the end of the row say how many coins are in that purse.

Questions and answers

Questions from parents

Where do the dashes stop?

A little past the middle of the row, after six or seven circles counting the solid model. From there on only the guide lines remain.

The free circles shrink toward the end of the row. What helps?

Ask your child to check that each new circle still touches both guide lines; a quick look back at the dashed ones resets the size.

My child starts at the top of the circle instead of the dot. Does it matter?

Starting on the left side and going down first, as the dot shows, is how a and d begin, so it is worth practicing. Point back to the dot at the start of each row.