Crosses Tracing Worksheet — Medium Patterns, Half Tracing, 6 Rows, Ages 6–8
Six medium rows of X-shaped crosses for 6–8 year olds, where the dashes guide roughly the first half of each row and your child continues the pattern on the empty lines.
1 A4 page · for home and classroom use
Crosses
How to use this worksheet
- Start each cross at its top-left corner, where the dot sits on the first one, and slant down to the bottom right.
- Add the second slant through the middle, then trace the next dashed cross.
- When the dashes end, keep drawing crosses of the same width and spacing; ten to twelve fit in a full row.
What this worksheet teaches
By first and second grade, children use diagonal strokes constantly, in letters such as k, v, w, x, y and z and in numbers like 4 and 7. This sheet checks whether those strokes stay controlled when the guide disappears: each cross should be as tall as the dashed ones, the two lines must cross in the center, and the gaps must stay even. Half tracing gives a warm-up with support and then asks for independent work, the same step as moving from tracing letters to copying them.
Play idea
Hidden circle: in the free part of each row, your child hides one small circle among the crosses. Swap sheets and see who finds the hidden circles fastest.