Tracing Lines Worksheets For 3-year-olds (teacher made) - Free Printable

This worksheet is designed to help you practice pencil control and recognize patterns. The goal is to trace the dotted lines from the picture on the left to the matching picture or pattern on the right.

Here is how to solve each row:

Row 1:

- Left: A dog
- Right: A doghouse
- Pattern: Dashed line (– – –)
- ✔ Match: Dog → Doghouse with dashed line

Row 2:

- Left: A horse 🐎
- Right: A barn 🏚️
- Pattern: Dotted line (· · ·)
- ✔ Match: Horse → Barn with dotted line

Row 3:

- Left: A pig 🐷
- Right: A pigpen (small shelter) 🛖
- Pattern: Dash-dot-dash (– · – ·)
- ✔ Match: Pig → Pigpen with dash-dot pattern

Row 4:

- Left: A chicken 🐔
- Right: A chicken coop 🏡
- Pattern: Vertical dashes (| | |)
- ✔ Match: Chicken → Chicken coop with vertical dash pattern

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Now, looking at the other columns (which seem to be repeated or misaligned in the image), we focus only on the first column since it’s the only one that makes logical sense for matching animals to their homes with specific line patterns.

The task says: “Carefully trace over the patterns to connect the dots on the pictures. Can you finish each pattern?”

So, you are meant to trace the given pattern between each animal and its home — not choose which pattern goes where, but follow the existing dotted/dashed lines as guides.

But if the question is asking you to match based on pattern type (as implied by “Can you finish each pattern?”), then the correct matches are already shown — you just need to trace them.

However, if this is a puzzle where you must assign the correct pattern to each pair, here's the logic:

Each animal-home pair has a unique line style. You’re supposed to recognize that:

- Dog → Doghouse = long dashes
- Horse → Barn = dots
- Pig → Pigpen = dash-dot
- Chicken → Coop = vertical lines

There’s no calculation — it’s visual tracing and pattern recognition.

Since all pairs are already correctly matched in the first column, and the rest of the columns appear to be duplicates or errors (same headers, mismatched images), we assume the intended task is simply to trace the lines in the first column.

But wait — looking again, the full sheet shows 5 columns, each labeled “Control”, and each has different items. Actually, re-examining carefully:

The first column is:
- Dog → Doghouse (dashed)
- Horse → Barn (dotted)
- Pig → Pigpen (dash-dot)
- Chicken → Coop (vertical)

Second column:
- Spiderweb → Leaf? No — actually, second column starts with spiderweb, then leaf, pond, flower — but no clear left-right pairing like first column.

Actually, I think there was a formatting error in the image display. Looking closely, the worksheet is divided into 5 identical-looking sections, but each section has different content. However, only the first section has animal-to-home mappings with distinct line styles.

Given the instruction: “Carefully trace over the patterns to connect the dots on the pictures. Can you finish each pattern?” — it means you are to complete the tracing along the pre-drawn dotted/dashed lines.

Therefore, the “answer” isn’t a selection — it’s an action: trace the lines.

But since you asked me to “solve the problem accurately”, and provide a final answer, perhaps the hidden task is to identify which pattern belongs to which pair — even though they’re already drawn.

Alternatively, maybe the student is supposed to notice that in some columns, the patterns don’t match — but in the first column, everything is correct.

Wait — let’s look at the last part: the green banner says “ink saving Eco” — irrelevant.

Another possibility: the worksheet might have been meant to be cut into strips, and each strip is a separate exercise. But since we can’t do that, we treat the first column as the main task.

Final interpretation:

You are to trace the lines as shown. Since no actual drawing is possible here, the “solution” is to confirm that each animal is connected to its correct home via the specified pattern.

Thus, the completed task looks like this:

✔ Dog ————→ Doghouse
✔ Horse ······→ Barn
✔ Pig —·—·—→ Pigpen
✔ Chicken |||||→ Chicken coop

No changes needed — the patterns are already correctly assigned.

If the question is “which pattern goes with which?”, then:

- Animal Home Pair | Pattern Type
- Dog - Doghouse | Long dashes
- Horse - Barn | Dots
- Pig - Pigpen | Dash-dot
- Chicken - Coop | Vertical lines

But again, since the lines are already drawn, the student’s job is to trace them.

Given all that, and since you want a “final answer”, I’ll summarize the correct pairings with their patterns.

Final Answer:
Dog connects to doghouse with dashed line; horse to barn with dotted line; pig to pigpen with dash-dot line; chicken to coop with vertical line pattern. Trace each accordingly.