4 Ideas How to Teach Tracing Lines in a Fun Way by Using Apple Tracing Worksheet

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Are you looking for ideas on how to teach tracing lines in a MORE FUN way?

Come, try my easy ideas.

My kids used to find tracing practice daunting.

They’d make faces, and I had to drag them to finish just one page of tracing practice. (sometimes, I might discount the practice to only half of the page)

I searched high and low for fun tracing pages, and none pleased them.

That’s when a light bulb lit, and I started creating tracing practices like this Apple Tracing Pages packet.

And oh boy, they loved this activity to bits!

Let me share the Apple tracing pages with you and how to teach tracing lines in a more fun way using them.

PS: If you’re looking to download a mini-freebie, scroll down to the bottom of the post and look for a download button.

What are the Apple Tracing Pages

The Apple Tracing Pages packet is about tracing various short lines in mini-apples.

The tracing lines in these apples are short and brief, making it perfect for beginners.

Variety of Tracing Lines

The Apple Tracing packet offers a variety of lines to trace, including horizontal, vertical, curved, and more.

Tracing Shapes

Tracing shapes can be tricky, especially shapes with many sides, such as squares and stars.

But we are going to make it bearable and easy for your kids.

“How?” you might ask.

The mini apples with shapes will include a mixture of lines and shapes, making them look like apples with quirky, fun faces.

When it looks enticing and fun, your kids will forget it’s hard; they might as well try their best to trace all the shapes they find in the apples.

Four Ideas How to Teach Tracing Lines in More Fun with the Apple Tracing Pages

There are many ways for your kids to practice tracing using this Apple Tracing Pages packet.

Let me share 4 ideas you can do right away.

#1: Tracing using fingers

Holding a crayon might be challenging for toddlers who are just beginning to learn to trace.

One perfect way for them to do this is to trace using their fingers.

Print the pages and let your kids move their fingers on the tracing lines.

Or if you’re up for a messy play, let them paint on the tracing pages.

1. Laminate the tracing pages first
2. Pull out some paints
3. Let your kids dip their fingers into the paint
4. Let them have fun tracing the lines in the apples

#2: Tracing using crayons or colored pencils

For more kids, this is the easiest way to do tracing.

To add MORE fun, trace each line in the apples using different colors.

For example, trace line 1 using the color red.

Then, trace line 2 using the color purple.

#3: Tracing using Q-tips

Earlier, we used to trace using fingers.

But if you’re not into messy play, you can grab a few Q-tips for your paint-loving kids and let them trace using their favorite colors.

#4: Cut and paste the apples into a mini-book

My kids love their mini-book – the one that they created by themselves.

Maybe the sense of creating something makes them feel highly accomplished.

So I used this to let them have more fun with the Apple tracing practice – by making apple mini-books:

1. First, they trace and color in the apples
2. Next, grab an A4 paper. Fold it into four so that it’d make a mini-booklet
3. Later, cut the apples
4. Finally, paste the apples into the mini-booklet

Let your kids brag about their books, telling about their apples with each other.

Oh, what a beautiful sight.

Do Tracing Lines Practice Help with Tracing Letters and Numbers

Letters and numbers are a mix of different strokes and lines.

For example, if you look at the letter “P,” it is a mixture of vertical lines and curve lines.

#1: Develop Muscle Memory

By practicing tracing short lines, you’re helping your kids’ finger muscles to develop the necessary muscle memory and warm up to tracing and writing practice.

In other words, to get familiar with and used to writing lines that formed the letters and numbers of the alphabet.

#2: Help develop focus

Tracing lines practice does help with tracing letters and numbers.

It’s because each time your little ones want to trace one whole short line in one of the mini-apples, they have to focus on the tracing practice itself.

Focus is a big thing to a little child.

Practicing tracing brief lines would help one focus on tracing more complex alphabet letters and numbers.

Make Tracing Practice Engaging

But all in all, to make tracing practice itself, we have to make sure that the activity is engaging and exciting so that your kids would ask for more tracing pages.

That’s where these Apple Tracing pages help – by offering over SIXTY mini-apples with a mixture of tracing lines, and some with fun faces made up of shapes and tracing lines.

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