Free Gingerbread Shape Tracing Card Printables
The free Gingerbread Shape Tracing Card Printables are a great way to work on shape tracing. You have 12 shapes for kids to see and trace. It is a fun way to work on fine motor work with shapes.
You can use this with any gingerbread theme.
The Gingerbread shape tracing cards are great for kids in preschool, prek, and kindergarten.
The Gingerbread Shape Tracing Card Printable is an excellent addition to the gingerbread printables and shape printables on the site.
What is a Shape?
It is a geometric shape like a circle, square, heart, or rectangle. These are just some of the 2D shapes.
Gingerbread Shape Tracing Card Printable
You have fun gingerbread shape tracing cards. They have a gingerbread face with the same shape with a shape for kids to trace that matches the gingerbread shape.
You have four shapes on each page. You will find the following shapes: circle, square, rectangle, oval, rhombus, triangle, star, heart, crescent, hexagon, pentagon, and octagon.
The shape tracing cards are great for kids in preschool (ages 3 to 4), prek (ages 4 to 5), and kindergarten (ages 5 to 6).
Things to use with the Gingerbread Shape Tracing Card Printable
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- printer
- white cardstock
- laminator
- laminating pouches
- dry erase laminating pouches – I just started using these and I LOVE them.
- sheet protectors
- dry erase markers
- playdough
- mini Christmas erasers
Preparing the Gingerbread Shape Tracing Card Printables
You will see below the ways that we prepare the gingerbread shape tracing cards.
Printing the Gingerbread Shape Tracing Cards
You can print the gingerbread shape tracing cards on cardstock. The cardstock helps the cards hold up for repeated use.
Laminating the Gingerbread Shape Cards
We laminate the shape tracing cards. You can laminate and then cut or cut out the cards and then laminate. You can do which works best for the laminator that you are using.
Storing the Cards on the a Ring
After you have the cards cut out you can store the cards on the ring. This keeps the shapes together. You can use all the cards on the ring or put rings together you want to use.
But after you are done you can always keep all the cards together.
Ways to Use the Gingerbread Shape Tracing Card Printable
You are going to see a few ways we have used the gingerbread shape tracing cards. And these ideas give you more than one way to use the cards.
Setting up a Shape Tracing Center
You have set up a shape tracing center for kids. You might start with one shape cards at a time with younger kids. Then work up to several cards for kids who are older. You give kids a dry erase marker for the tracing.
Tracing the Gingerbread Shape Tracing Cards
You can see below how we traced the shape with a dry erase marker. It is simple to trace the shape and then wipe off the shape. Then you flip to the next shape and keep going. Or just do the one shape.
You can keep the shape pages together and then trace the shapes. You can tell them a shape to trace of the four shapes on the page. or just have them trace all the shapes.
You can also not laminate the pages and put them in a sheet protector and then trace the shapes. You can store the pages in a binder for kids to trace all the shapes or just do one shape page at a time.
Using Playdough on the Gingerbread Shape Tracing Cards
There are kids who do better with learning in a hands-on activity. And you can use these shape tracing cards for playdough mats as well.
Adding playdough do this shape tracing cards makes it hands-on for kids. You can see how we make playdough snakes and then lined the shape with the playdough. You can see how simple it is to do.
You can talk about how any sides a shape has or if it is smooth lines and straight lines for each shape.
You can also have kids fill in the whole shape with playdough. It is different way to use playdough on the shapes.
Line the Shape with Small Items
You can also use small items to line the shapes. You can see how we used mini erasers to line the shape. You can do this with any small item. And it gives another fine motor activity and working on the shapes.
More Gingerbread Shape Printables for Kids
If you are looking for more gingerbread shape to use with the shape tracing cards check out the Gingerbread Color the Shape & Find the Shape. A fun way to look for the shape and color the shape. Pus you have the matching shape word to trace.
Gingerbread Color the Shape & Find the Shape Printable
The gingerbread color the shape and find the shape is a shape find for 12 shapes. You have a shape at the top right side and several shapes to give. Plus a shape word at the bottom to trace. A fun shape find for kids.
What you will find in the Gingerbread Color the Shape & Find the Shape Printable
- Color the Gingerbread the Shape and Find the shapes around it
- Shapes: circle, square, rectangle, oval, rhombus, triangle, star, heart, crescent, hexagon, pentagon, and octagon.
- No-prep printable
- Bonus: Gingerbread Shape Tracing Cards
- 12 pages
- Price: $3
What you will find in the Free Gingerbread Shape Tracing Card Printables
- 12 shapes: circle, square, rectangle, triangle, oval, rhombus, star, heart, crescent, pentagon, hexagon, and octagon.
- Trace Shape with Gingerbread shapes 4 per page
- 3 pages of printables
More Gingerbread Man Printables For Kids
Gingerbread Activity Pack has Prewriting, Shapes, ABCs, & Numbers for kids to learn in fun ways. You no-prep pages, easy reader books, tracing strips, and clip cards!
Gingerbread Story Sequencing Set has retelling the Gingerbread Man Story with clip cards, story cards, cut and paste, easy reader book and writing for prek, kindergarten, and first grade activities.
Run Run As Fast As You Can With The Gingerbread Man Gross Motor Dice is a fun gross motor dice with 6 movements for kids to do.
My Gingerbread Man Easy Reader Book is a fun easy reader book about different types of Gingerbread man people have made.
No-Prep Gingerbread Weekly Packs has 6 levels of no-prep weekly packs. You have PreK, Kindergarten, First Grade, Second Grade, Third Grade, and Fourth Grade pack. Each level is fun with different learning to read and math themed printables that you can just print and use!
Check out all the fun Gingerbread Man Activities & Printables on 3 Dinosaurs.
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