Picket Fences Tracing Worksheet — Medium Patterns, Half Tracing, 5 Rows, Ages 5–6
A long rail with short posts crossing it: the picket fence on this card mixes one horizontal stroke with many vertical ones across five medium rows for ages 5–6.
1 A4 page · for home and classroom use
Fence
How to use this worksheet
- Start at the dot on the left end of the rail and draw the horizontal line from left to right along the middle of the row.
- Then add the posts: each one starts at the top guide line and goes straight down through the rail to the bottom line.
- Trace the dashed rail and posts to the middle of the row, then extend the rail by yourself and fill it with evenly spaced posts.
What this worksheet teaches
Every post crosses the rail, so the child practices the plus-shaped crossing that appears in t, f and the + sign, and learns that some shapes are built from separate strokes in a set order. A long left-to-right line trains the writing direction and keeping a stroke level, while the short vertical strokes train stopping on a line. Medium rows keep the posts short enough that the fingers, not the arm, control them, a good match for children of 5–6 who are starting to write letters.
Play idea
Farm fence: after the rows are finished, your child draws a small animal behind the best stretch of fence, maybe a sheep or a hen, and counts the posts in that stretch aloud.