Spirals Tracing Worksheet — Medium Patterns, Half Tracing, 5 Rows, Ages 5–6
Five rows of medium spirals wind in toward their centers, and the dashed guide stops just past the middle of each row, so your 5–6 year old draws the rest alone.
1 A4 page · for home and classroom use
Spirals
How to use this worksheet
- Put the pencil on the black dot at the outer edge of the solid spiral and wind inward, round and round, until you reach the middle.
- Trace the five dashed spirals that follow, lifting the pencil only between spirals, never inside one.
- Where the dashes end, your child draws the remaining spirals alone, each standing on the bottom guide line.
What this worksheet teaches
A spiral asks the hand to keep turning while the circle gets smaller on every lap, so the fingers, not the whole arm, have to steer. That graded control of a continuous curve is the same control needed for round letters such as o, a and e to close neatly at a small size. The half-tracing layout matters at 5–6: the dashed spirals show size and spacing, and the empty half checks whether your child can keep that rhythm without support.
Play idea
Snail race: each spiral is a snail shell. Before drawing a free snail, your child says “round, round, stop” and finishes exactly in the center. At the end, give the neatest snail a name.