Animal Tracing Worksheets | +20 Animals Pictures
Make learning to draw and write an adventure with our animal tracing worksheets! Designed to help your child master line tracing and draw their favorite animals.
Animal Tracing: Help Your Child Discover Animals Through Art
Children naturally love animals, which makes animal tracing worksheets one of the best ways to keep them engaged while they learn. Instead of just tracing basic lines, they get to help a bee find a flower or trace the tall neck of a giraffe. This adds a sense of story and purpose to their practice.
These worksheets are specifically designed to build “pencil control.” By following the paths and shapes of different animals, kids strengthen the small muscles in their hands. This is a vital step before they start writing full letters and numbers. Plus, once they finish tracing, they have a beautiful animal picture ready to be colored in!
Download Your Printable Animal Tracing Worksheets
Help the animals reach their destination! These 5 worksheets focus on mastering different types of lines.
Animal Outline Tracing Set 1
This worksheet features various cute animals to trace (like an elephant, crocodile, and panda) drawn with dashed outlines. Children can practice their “pencil pathing” by following the shapes to complete the pictures.
Animal Outline Tracing Set 2
Similar to the first file but with a focus on internal details. Kids trace the outlines and patterns (like the spots on a snake or the mane of a bear) of a new set of animals, including a shark, camel, and monkey.
Tracing Lines for Animals
This is a pre-writing activity where children help animals “find their food.” It features horizontal tracing paths with different line styles.
Animal Word Tracing
This worksheet features colorful illustrations of common animals like cows, dogs, and cats, with their names written in dashed letters underneath for children to trace.
Animal Name Tracing
This sheet focuses on longer and more complex words. It includes animals such as crocodiles, dolphins, and giraffes, helping kids practice spelling.
Animal Tracing Pictures for Preschool & Kindergarten
Once your child is comfortable with lines, let them try tracing these full animal illustrations! These pages encourage focus and attention to detail. Through these worksheets, your child can trace a cat, a dog, a cow, a duck, a dolphin, and more.
Cat Tracing
Dog Tracing
Bird Tracing
Bear Tracing
Camel Tracing
Cow Tracing
Crocodile Tracing
Dolphin Tracing
Duck Tracing
Elephant Tracing
Fish Tracing
Giraffa Tracing
Horse Tracing
Lion Tracing
Monkey Tracing
Mouse Tracing
Octopus Tracing
Panda Tracing
Rabbit Tracing
Seal Tracing
Shark Tracing
Sheep Tracing
Snake Tracing
Turtle Tracing
Zebra Tracing
For the best printing results, we recommend using Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Why Use Animal Tracing?
Animal tracing is a bridge between playing and learning. For a child, they are just “drawing a monkey,” but for a parent or teacher, you know they are building the hand-eye coordination required for a lifetime of writing. These animal tracing worksheets encourage children to stay inside the lines, which improves their precision and focus.
We recommend starting with the Line Tracing section to warm up the hands. Once they feel confident, move to the Picture Tracing section. You can even encourage them to name the colors they use as they fill in the animals afterward. This makes the activity a complete educational experience covering math, art, and biology!
