Free · Ready to print · Letter & A4
Shape tracing
Ten shapes to trace, each one actually the shape it is called. Free printable sheets for the first geometry vocabulary a child learns, and good pencil control while they are at it.
- Letter & A4, portrait or landscape
- Real stroke centrelines, not outlines
- Change the size and reprint
Trace the shapes
NameStart on the dot and follow the arrow. Trace the faint ones, then write your own.
This is page one of 3 at the default size. Open it in the maker to print the rest, choose a range, or fit more on a page.
About this sheet
Shapes need a square field, and getting that wrong is the most common fault in printable shape sheets. Dropped into the tall box that digits use, a "circle" comes out a vertical ellipse while an "oval" comes out rounder than the circle beside it, and a "square" is a portrait rectangle while the "rectangle" is nearly square. The names then contradict the drawings on a sheet whose entire purpose is teaching those names. Every shape here is drawn in a 54-by-54 field, and anything meant to be equilateral is equilateral.
Why it is drawn this way
The regular polygons are computed from a circumscribed circle rather than eyeballed, so the pentagon and the hexagon have genuinely equal sides instead of merely looking as though they might. Only the oval and the rectangle are deliberately wider than tall — being wider than tall is the whole of what distinguishes them from the circle and the square next to them.