Picket Fence Tracing: Rail and Posts — Medium, Half Tracing, 6 Rows, Ages 6–8
A long horizontal rail through the middle, crossed by twenty or so upright posts: that is the fence in each of six medium rows, dashed as far as the middle for 6–8-year-olds.
1 A4 page · for home and classroom use
Fence
How to use this worksheet
- The dark dot marks the left end of the rail. Trace the rail first, as far as the dashes go.
- Then add the posts: each starts on the top guide line and goes straight down through the rail to the bottom line.
- In the second half of the row, draw the rail and the posts freehand, keeping the posts evenly spaced.
What this worksheet teaches
The fence combines the two basic straight strokes of print letters, across and down, meeting at a crossing point as they do in t, f and the plus sign. Drawing the rail as one long pull from left to right trains a steady horizontal line across the page, something many children find harder than a vertical one. In the free half your child also has to space twenty or so posts evenly by eye, the same judgment used for spacing letters in a word.
Variation to try
Farm fence: in the empty half of one row, draw a small field behind the fence with a gate in it. In another row, put a bird on every fifth post and count the birds.