Trace Trace Hooray! Pencil Control Book for Kids Ages 3-5

Trace Trace Hooray! is a printable pencil control book for children ages 3 to 5. It takes little hands from wobbly first lines to steady, ready-to-write strokes, one easy level at a time. Every line has a black start dot and a small arrow, and every page has a short tip for the grown-up sitting nearby.

What’s inside: 143 tracing activities in 7 levels

1. Lines (20 pages): left-to-right and top-to-bottom lines with picture start and end points, like a bee to its flower, a car to its house and a puppy to its bone.
2. Slants & Zigzags (20 pages): slanted lines, zigzag mountains, castle-wall bumps and stairs.
3. Curves & Waves (20 pages): waves, hills, bouncing curves and rainbows.
4. Loops & Spirals (20 pages): loop-de-loops, spirals (snail, lollipop, sun, flower) and a long snake path.
5. Shapes (20 pages): circle, square, triangle, rectangle, oval, diamond, heart, star, hexagon and pentagon, each with “draw your own” boxes, plus mixed shape pages with smiley faces.
6. Mazes (20 pages): easy to harder mazes that teach the eye to plan before the hand moves.
7. Trace & Draw (23 pages): dotted pictures to trace and color, from Ollie the Owl and a Happy Apple to a rocket, a crown and a snowman.

Each skill uses three steps: a wide grey road first, then the dotted line only, then drawing on their own.

Also included

• A “Hello, Grown-ups!” guide: pencil grip, how to trace, how to use the levels, and tips for left-handed children
• A grown-up tip on every activity page
• A “My Tracing Stars” progress chart (color a star for each level)
• A “This Book Belongs To” page and a “Tracing Superstar” certificate

Skills it helps practice

Pencil control, fine motor strength, hand-eye coordination, the left-to-right and top-to-bottom writing direction, shape recognition, and the pre-writing strokes that letters are built from.

Who it’s for

Children ages 3 to 5 in preschool, pre-K or getting ready for kindergarten, and the parents, homeschool families and teachers who sit beside them. Five to ten minutes a day is plenty; stop while it is still fun.

What you get

• 1 US Letter PDF (8.5 x 11 in), 150 pages
• 1 A4 PDF, 150 pages (the same book sized for A4 paper)
• Black and white pages, so they print well on a home printer

How to print

1. Download the PDFs from Etsy after purchase and open the one that matches your paper.
2. Print single-sided on plain paper at Actual Size / 100%.
3. Print only the pages you need, as often as you need, for your own family or one classroom.
4. Tip: slip a page into a sheet protector to reuse it with a dry-erase marker.

Digital download only. Nothing physical is shipped.

The Hooray! Learning Series

Trace Trace Hooray! is Book 2. Book 1 is Snip Snip Hooray! (Scissor Skills), and Book 3 is Write Write Hooray! (Letter Tracing & Letter Sounds), the next step after pencil control.

License

For personal use with your own family, or by one teacher with one classroom. Please do not resell, share or redistribute the files, or post them online.

The text and illustrations in this book were created by RockPaperPop with the help of AI tools. Some lifestyle photos on this page were made with AI image tools; the book pages shown in them are real pages from the book.