Picket Fences Tracing Worksheet — Medium Patterns, Full Tracing, 5 Rows, Ages 4–5
Posts and a rail, drawn smaller: about twenty posts cross the long rail in each of the five medium rows on this picket fence tracing sheet for ages 4–5.
1 A4 page · for home and classroom use
Fence
How to use this worksheet
- Draw the long rail first, from the dot on the left to the end of the row.
- Then draw the posts one by one, top to bottom, crossing the rail.
- Keep the posts straight and evenly spaced.
- Work from left to right so the finished posts are not smudged.
What this worksheet teaches
The fence combines one long horizontal line with many short vertical lines crossing it: two basic writing strokes plus the skill of crossing a line at the right place. That prepares for letters with crossing strokes such as t and f and for the bars of E and F. On medium rows, about 1.8 cm tall, the posts are short, so precision matters more than on the large fence sheet.
Play idea
After tracing, turn the sheet over and draw a farm behind a fence: which animals live there? Your child can draw the fence first, rail and then posts, just like on the worksheet.
Questions and answers
Questions from parents
Why is the rail drawn first?
The long horizontal line gives a base, and the posts then cross it. The start dot on the left shows this order.
My child's posts are crooked. What helps?
Draw slowly from top to bottom and keep the paper still with the other hand.
How is this different from the large fence sheet?
The posts are smaller and there are more of them in each row, so more precision is needed.