Shorts Tracing Worksheet — Medium Patterns with Half Tracing for Ages 4–5
Pairs of shorts with straight legs and a small curved pocket repeat in five medium rows; your child traces the first half of each row, then draws the next pairs alone. For ages 4–5.
1 A4 page · for home and classroom use
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How to use this worksheet
- Every pair in the row repeats a waistband, two straight legs with a pointed gap between them and a small curved pocket, so the freehand shorts keep the traced width.
- The dashes run through about the first half of each of the five rows; when they end, your child draws the next shorts alone, copying the waistband width from the solid pair at the start.
What this worksheet teaches
Tracing the first half of each row sets the width of the waistband, and carrying that width on alone teaches even spacing and repeated straight strokes at one size.
Play idea
Sort the laundry: your child adds dots to the traced shorts and stripes to the freehand ones, then counts which pile is bigger in each row.
Questions and answers
Questions from parents
How far apart should the freehand shorts be?
About the same gap as between the dashed pairs — a finger's width works well, so the row keeps its rhythm all the way to the right edge.
What age is this worksheet for?
Children aged 4–5 — tracing the dashed shorts first warms up the straight lines, and finishing each row freehand is their first try at copying a shape with corners.
What if the legs of the freehand shorts come out uneven?
Have your child draw the waistband first and mark its middle with a small dot; the tip of the V cut sits right below that dot, so both legs get the same width.