🔺 Shapes
Find and Colour the Circles
Ages 2–4
🔺 Shapes
Trace and Learn the Shapes
Six named shapes to trace and then draw freehand: circle, square, triangle, rectangle, star and heart.
- Suitable for
- Ages 3–5
- Pages
- 1 page
- Level
- Easy
- Printing
- Black & white
Free, no sign-up. A4 · Print at 100% scale
What your child practises
- Names the six most common early-years shapes
- Traces closed shapes with controlled pencil movement
- Reproduces a shape from memory in an empty space
- Plans corners and direction changes in advance
About this worksheet
Each row on this sheet works the same way: the shape is named, drawn once solidly as a model, then repeated twice in grey to trace, and finally there is an empty box to attempt it freehand.
That progression from copy to independent attempt is the useful part. Tracing alone lets a child follow a line without ever forming a mental picture of the shape; the empty box is where you find out whether the shape has actually landed.
Circles and squares usually come easily. Triangles are harder than they look, because the child has to plan three corners in advance, and stars are genuinely difficult before about age five — treat the star row as a bonus rather than an expectation.
How to use this sheet
Say the shape name aloud together at the start of each row. If the freehand box is a struggle, hold their hand for the first attempt and let go for the second.
