Picket Fences Tracing Worksheet — Medium Patterns, Half Tracing, 6 Rows, Ages 4–5
A garden fence for 4–5-year-olds to finish: in each of six medium rows a straight rail runs through the middle with posts crossing it, dashed to about halfway.
1 A4 page · for home and classroom use
Fence
How to use this worksheet
- Begin at the dark dot on the left end of the rail and trace the rail as far as the dashes go.
- Add the posts: short straight lines from the top guide line down to the bottom one, each crossing the rail.
- In the empty half, draw the rail on and keep adding posts with even gaps.
What this worksheet teaches
A horizontal line crossed by vertical ones is the plus shape many children learn to copy around age four, repeated here twenty times in a row. Your child practices both straight strokes, the long pull across and the short pull down, and makes them meet at a crossing point, as in t and f. The free half adds spacing: keeping the posts evenly apart by eye is an early form of spacing letters in a word.
Variation to try
Animal pen: in the free half of one row, draw a sheep or a hen behind the fence, then count how many posts stand between the animals.
Questions and answers
Questions from parents
What should my child draw first, the rail or the posts?
The rail first, from the start dot as far as the dashes go, then the posts from top to bottom, one after another.
Six rows is long for my 4-year-old. Do we need all of them?
No. Three rows at a time is plenty; the rest can wait for another day.
My child stops the posts at the rail. Is that right?
Each post should go from the top line to the bottom line, right through the rail, like the dashed posts.