Walking Canes Tracing Worksheet — Large Patterns to Trace for Ages 5–6

A straight line up and a round hook over the top: each walking cane on this large sheet for ages 5–6 is a single stroke, and every row is dashed from start to end.

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All printables: Tracing lines

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How to use this worksheet

Start on the dark dot at the foot of the cane, near the bottom line, and go straight up.
At the top, curve over to the right in a round hook and come down a short way. That is one cane, drawn without lifting the pencil.
Lift, move to the next cane and repeat. Eight to eleven canes fit in each row.

What this worksheet teaches

The cane joins a long straight stroke to a curve at the top, with no corner in between. That smooth change from straight to round is the movement of the letters n, h, m and r, where the pencil goes back up and arches over. Holding the upstroke straight without leaning is the hard part, and big rows about three quarters of an inch tall give room to see it. Keeping the hooks the same size along the row also trains even spacing, which later makes words easier to read.

Play idea

Turn the canes into candy canes: after tracing a row, your child adds slanted stripes to every second cane and leaves the others plain, then counts the striped ones.

Questions and answers

Questions from parents

Is this a straight line pattern?

Mostly, but not only: each cane has a round hook at the top. The straight part trains upright strokes, the hook trains the turn into a curve.

My child makes a sharp corner instead of a round hook. What helps?

Slow down near the top and think of going over a hill, not up a wall. The dashes show exactly how round the hook should be.

Why does the stroke go up instead of down?

The model starts at the foot so the whole cane can be drawn in one smooth movement that ends with the hook.