18 Educational Tracing Activities for Kids

Get familiar with the alphabet by tracing each letter repeatedly with different-colored crayons or pencils. 

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Once kids have mastered uppercase letters, use the same colors to trace lowercase letters.

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Your child can follow the outlines of basic shapes in four sizes, then shade them in with crayons or markers.

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Reinforce the concept of sizes by comparing small, medium, and large. Outline the shapes and then color each size with its own hue.

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When it's cold and snowy outside, what should you wear? Encourage kids to circle the appropriate clothes in this tracing activity.

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Teach kids what to wear when it's warm and rainy outside.

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When it's sunny and hot outside, what should kids wear? Print out this tracing activity and circle the appropriate clothes.

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Have your kids circle the appropriate clothes for chilly, windy weather.

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Teach your kids numbers one through ten with tracing activities that double as coloring sheets. Have them trace different digits along dotted lines, identify numbers on fingers, and learn about different land and sea animals.

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Color two pigs in the pen and trace the corresponding figure.

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Color three sheep in the meadow and follow the dotted lines to practice this curvy numeral.

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Color four ducks on the pond and outline the angular decimal in this tracing activity.

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Color five mice in the wall and guide a pencil along dotted lines.

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Color six sharks in the sea and repeat the rounded symbol on paper.

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With this tracing activity, kids can color seven turtles around a reef and then duplicate the prime number.

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Color eight crabs on the sand and then reproduce the number, which is essentially two connected threes.

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Color nine fish in a school, and then master this number that resembles an upside-down six.

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Color ten shells by the seashore and then draw a one and a zero to form a two-digit number.

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