Free Poppy Shape Tracing Printable for Veteran’s Day
The free Poppy Shape Tracing Printable gives kids a fun way to work on shapes during Veteran’s Day and Memorial Day.
A simple shape worksheet with tracing the shape with poppies on the shapes to change up simple shape tracing into a fun holiday shape tracing activity for kids.
These poppy shape printables are great shape tracing worksheets for kids in preschool, prek, and kindergarten.
The Poppy Shape Tracing Printable is an excellent addition to the shape printables and Veteran’s Day printables on the site.
What are 2D Shape Tracing Worksheets?
2D shape tracing worksheets are printable resources that feature flat 2D shapes for kids to trace. These are great fine motor tracing activities for kindergarten and prek.
Poppy Shape Tracing Printable
The Poppy Shape Tracing Printable has shape tracing with poppies and the shape name at the top. And you have two version with the people in uniform and without the people.
The poppy theme shape tracing worksheets have the following shapes to trace: circle, square, rectangle, oval, triangle, diamond, rhombus, star, heart, crescent, hexagon, pentagon, and octagon.
Each of the poppy shape tracing pages has a shape to trace with poppies around it. Each shape has a fine line for tracing, and the poppies make a great stop and start for the shape—a fun shape tracing printable for Veterans’ Day.
The Poppy Shape Tracing Printables are great for kids in preschool (ages 3 to 4), prek (ages 4 to 5) and kindergarten (ages 5 to 6).
You can see an example of one of the poppy shape tracing pages below without the people in uniform.
You can see an example of one of the poppy shape tracing pages with the people in uniform.
Poppy Book to Read with the Poppy Shape Tracing Printable
A great book to use with this poppy shape tracing printable is The Poppy Lady: Moina Belle Michael and Her Tribute to Veterans. You can learn all about the meaning behind poppies and Veteran’s Days.
Things to use with the Poppy Shape Tracing Printable
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Ways to Use the Poppy Shape Tracing Printable
You are going to see a few ways to use the poppy shape tracing pages.
Setting up a Shape Tracing Center
You can see we have set up a shape tracing center with the poppy shape tracing pages. You have the shape tracing page and a pencil to trace the shapes. You can trace the shapes with crayons and markers as well.
If you need extra help holding the pencil then use a pencil grip to help kids.
Tracing the Shapes and Color the Poppies
You can that we use crayons to trace the poppy shape tracing pages. We trace the shape in green and colored the poppies in red and black. A fun way to work on shapes in a learning center or morning work.
The poppies also give a nice start and stop to tracing the shapes. It makes it smaller segments of lines instead of tracing the whole shape.
You could also use colored pencils or markers.
Using Playdough on the Shapes
You can use the poppy shape tracing pages as a playdough mat. You put the shape tracing page in a sheet protector or laminate the page.
Then you can have kids use playdough to trace the shape. You can have them stop at the poppies or cover the poppies with the playdough.
You can use red or green for the theme with the mats. This is another fun way to use the shape tracing pages with kids.
Using Small Items to Line the Shapes
You can also use small items to trace the shape tracing pages. You can see we use red buttons on the the tracing pages. We just lined the tracing lines of the shapes. But you could cover the poppies as well.
A simple way to make the tracing page another hands on activity for kids.
Reusing the Poppy Shape Tracing Pages
You can also reuse the poppy shape tracing pages in learning centers. You can laminate the page or put the page in a sheet protector and then trace the shape with a dry erase marker. A simple and easy shape tracing activity for kids.
What you will find in the free Poppy Shape Tracing Printable
- Shape Name at the top of the page
- Fine Motor tracing shapes to trace with poppies around them
- Fine Motor tracing shapes to trace with poppies around them with people in military uniforms
- 12 Shapes to trace: circle, square, rectangle, oval, triangle, diamond, rhombus, star, heart, crescent, hexagon, pentagon, and octagon.
- 24 pages of printables
More Veteran’s Day Ideas for Kids
Veteran’s Day Weekly Packs has 5 days of printables with four pages for each day. You have six grade levels with prek, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, third grade, and fourth grade. Each of the packs has a mix of language and math for kids.
Poppy Fine Motor Mat Printables are great for veterans day for kids to do activities. You have a poppy template, poppy tracing printables, and poppy dot marker printables.
Veterans Day Pack has over 90 pages of activities for kids ages 2 to 6. You will find Veterans Day vocab cards, prewriting, an easy reader book, clip cards, and more. You will have a mix of hands-on and no-prep printables in the pack.
Poppy Flower Wreath Craft is a great wreath for Veterans Day. It is a great way to talk about poppies and their meaning for Veterans Da
Veteran’s Day Graphing Set has a graphing page, numbers, latter tracing and shape tracing. A dice set for kids to use with the graphing set. A great Veteran’s Day theme with different branches of the military.
Check out all the fun Veteran’s Day Activities & Printables on 3 Dinosaurs.
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