Trace Press

Animal tracing worksheets

Twenty animal words, one a page, to print and trace. Each page has a picture of the animal to colour in, the word large with numbered start dots and arrows on every letter, then rows of it in dots to trace on four-line guides, then lines to write it alone.

8.5" × 11", no sign-up. The words, in order: cat, dog, pig, bat, rat, bug, fish, bird, deer, worm, horse, snail, panda, rabbit, turtle, spider, shrimp, dragon, squirrel and butterfly. They start with three-letter animals a child can sound out, cat, dog and pig, and build up to squirrel and butterfly. One of them is a dragon, because some children will ask.

Your own words

To trace a child's name or a different list, type the words into the free tracing worksheet generator and print one page. For short first words with pictures, there are word tracing worksheets with pictures, and for vehicles, transportation tracing worksheets; for seasonal words, there are Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas tracing worksheets.

Selling an animal tracing book on KDP

Trace Press makes the whole book: A to Z, then these words a page each, with a matching full-wrap cover, in any of six KDP trim sizes. The button below opens it with the twenty animal words already typed in, for a 46-page book. Change the words, add numbers 0 to 9 or a “This book belongs to” page, and download. For the cover's size at that page count, see tracing book cover size.

A word gets a picture when Trace Press has one for it: 135 everyday words so far, such as dog, train and umbrella. A word without one gets the same page, without the picture. The outlines come from Tabler Icons, under the MIT licence, and, for bird, rabbit, turtle, snail, squirrel, rat, worm, panda and shrimp, from Lucide, under the ISC licence. Both allow copies to be sold. The licence texts: Tabler Icons, Lucide.

Free books have a small footer line and PREVIEW on the cover; $19 once removes both, for every book you make after.