Shape Picture Tracing: A Rocket of Circles, Squares and Triangles

A rocket stands on its launch pad in the middle of the page, and every part of it is a true shape. Its body is a tall rectangle, its nose is a triangle, its two windows are circles, its hatch is a square, its fins are triangles and its flame is a triangle pointing down. Around the rocket the sky holds more shapes: a big circle and a smaller circle, a square turned on its point and another square standing upright. A small key in the corner shows a filled circle.

Children first learn shapes in one standard position, and then have to learn that a shape keeps its name when it is bigger, smaller or turned. This page shows the same shapes in different sizes and positions, so the circles are big and small and one square stands on its corner. Tracing each shape helps the child feel its corners and sides, and the second task, coloring every circle, asks the child to find all the circles wherever they are. A square turned on its corner is still a square, and that is worth saying aloud.

This printable PDF suits kindergarten geometry and fine-motor practice together. The page holds thirteen shapes, all drawn exactly, with no rounded corners and no ovals. For coloring in any colors after tracing, try the picnic page; for straight lines in real pictures, the down, across and slanted page. Picture tracing follows the outline of whole pictures; abstract line practice, step-by-step drawing and numbered dot-to-dot have their own pages.