Pre-K · Fine Motor Skills
Trace the Waves
Free printable Pre-K fine motor skills worksheet: Trace the Waves. It practices pencil control. For ages 3-5. Download the PDF, print it, or fill it in online.
Fill in or color online- Grade
- Pre-K
- Subject
- Fine Motor Skills
- Skill
- Pencil control
- Ages
- 3–5
- Format
- A4 PDF · print or fill in online
About this worksheet
“Trace the Waves” is sheet 12 of 23 in our free Pre-K Fine Motor Skills Worksheets collection, written for children aged 3–5. It focuses on pencil control, one of 12 sheets in the set on that skill.
In the set it comes after “Trace the Zigzags” and before “Maze: Help the Duck”. Working through them in that order, one sheet a day, builds the skill a step at a time.
More pencil control worksheets
The other Pre-K Fine Motor Skills sheets on pencil control, in the order they are meant to be done.
How to use this worksheet
- 1
Use child-safe scissors and show the "thumb on top" grip. Cutting a straight line is the first goal; curves come later.
- 2
Short crayons encourage a better grip than long ones — snap a crayon in half for tracing sheets.
- 3
Let your child trace a shape with a finger first, then with a crayon, then with a pencil.
