Leaves Tracing Worksheet — Medium Patterns to Draw Independently for Ages 5–6

Five medium rows of little leaves, each with one straight line poking out, invite 5- and 6-year-olds to copy a shape from a single model instead of tracing a whole row.

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All printables: Tracing lines

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How to use this worksheet

Start on the dark dot at the left tip of the solid leaf: draw the top curve to the right tip, then the bottom curve back to where you began.
Lift the pencil and add the straight line: it starts in the center of the leaf and runs diagonally up to the right, out past the edge.
Trace the one dashed leaf, then draw the next leaves in the blank space, looking back at the model.

What this worksheet teaches

Copying from a model is harder than tracing: your child has to remember where the two curves meet, how fat the leaf is and at what angle the line leaves it. The two curves must close exactly at the left tip, which trains stopping on a target point. Starting the straight line inside the leaf means placing the pencil precisely before moving, and the switch from round to straight also appears in letters such as a, d and q.

Play idea

Autumn branch: when the page is done, your child picks five favorite leaves, colors them yellow, orange, red and brown, and draws a long branch above the first row for them to fall from.

Questions and answers

Questions from parents

Where does the straight line go?

It starts in the center of the leaf and runs diagonally up to the right, past the edge, like a stalk. Drawing it after the outline keeps the leaf shape clean.

The leaves come out round like circles. What helps?

Remind your child that both ends are pointed: the pencil stops at each tip before the next curve begins.

Only one leaf per row is dashed. Is that right?

Yes, this is the draw-from-the-model level: a solid model, one dashed leaf to try the movement, then free drawing.