Hearts Tracing Worksheet — Large Patterns, Full Tracing, 5 Rows, Ages 3–4

Seven to nine big hearts stand in each of the five rows on this fully dashed card, a shape 3–4 year olds recognize and love, drawn from the pointed tip upward.

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Hearts

How to use this worksheet

Start at the dark dot at the bottom tip of the first heart, the solid one: go up the left side, around the left bump and down into the dip in the middle.
Keep going over the right bump and down the right side, back to the tip where you started.
Trace every dashed heart the same way, lifting the crayon between hearts.

What this worksheet teaches

A heart is two curves that mirror each other: the left side bulges out to the left, the right side to the right, and they meet in a dip at the top and a point at the bottom. Tracing it teaches a child to plan a closed shape, change direction at the dip and come back exactly to the starting point. For 3–4 year olds, the full dashes keep both halves the same size, and the familiar shape keeps them motivated through five rows.

Play idea

Heart chain: after tracing a row, your child colors the hearts in a repeating pattern, red, pink, red, pink, saying it aloud. In the last row, try a three-color pattern and see if the rule holds to the end.

Questions and answers

Questions from parents

Why start at the bottom point?

From the tip the line goes up and over both bumps in one smooth movement; on this card the dot is placed there to show the way.

My three-year-old rounds off the bottom point. Is that a problem?

Not at this age. Say "down to the point" as the crayon comes back and pause there for a second; the sharp tip comes with slow tracing over the dashes.

Is this a good first tracing sheet?

Hearts are a friendly first closed shape, though single circles or straight lines are even simpler starting points.