Grasshoppers Tracing Worksheet — Medium Patterns with Half Tracing for Ages 4–5
Grasshoppers with half tracing for ages 4–5: dashes guide the first half of each of the five medium rows, then your child keeps drawing grasshoppers alone at the same size.
1 A4 page · for home and classroom use
Koniki polne
How to use this worksheet
- Look at the model before starting: the back leg is the tallest part, its knee rises well above the body, while the front legs stay short and low.
- When the dashes stop, roughly halfway along each of the five rows, your child draws the remaining grasshoppers alone, checking that the back leg rises as high as on the solid one.
What this worksheet teaches
Carrying a shape over from tracing to drawing: the first grasshoppers set the size and the spacing, and the unguided half of the row shows whether the long body, the high knee and the curved antenna keep the same rhythm without dashes.
Play idea
Have a grasshopper race: point to the last dashed grasshopper in a row and let your child hop along the empty half with the pencil, drawing one grasshopper per hop with even gaps.
Questions and answers
Questions from parents
How far apart should the freehand grasshoppers be?
About the same gap as between the dashed ones; a finger's width between the foot of one back leg and the antenna of the next is a handy measure.
What age is this worksheet for?
Children aged 4–5 — a grasshopper mixes very long and very short lines, so tracing the first ones in each row and then drawing the rest alone suits this age well.
What if the back legs on the freehand grasshoppers come out too short?
Ask your child to put a finger on the knee of the solid grasshopper and then draw the leg up to that height; the knee should rise above the body.