Free Printable Ocean Tracing Pages

These Ocean Tracing Pages are a great way to strengthen fine motor skills with your preschoolers and kindergartners this summer! Grab your no-prep printable preschool worksheets today! 

I’m super excited to share these adorable ocean-themed tracing pages with you today! Your early learners can practice tracing and coloring these simple ocean scenes for an engaging and hands-on fine motor activity that’s perfect for your classroom or homeschool. 

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Ocean tracing activities like these are perfect for practicing a variety of important early learning skills. Preschoolers and kindergartners can strengthen fine motor skills, increase hand-eye coordination, and so much more.

These no-prep printables are a great addition to your art or writing center this summer. Your preschool and kindergarten-aged learners can trace the simple ocean scenes and then color them for a fun and engaging ocean-themed fine motor activity.  

Keep reading to get your free printable ocean tracing pages!  

Why Tracing is Important for Preschoolers

Tracing is a great opportunity to practice pencil control, an important pre-writing skill for preschoolers. Not only that but using fun, themed activities like these ocean tracing pages is a great way to build critical fine motor skills too. 

Check out this list of skills that your early learners can practice using these printable ocean tracing pages. 

• Creative Thinking
• Problem-Solving
• Hand-Eye Coordination
• Concentration
• Attention to Detail
• Visual-Spatial Skills

Under the Sea Activities

Looking for more ocean-themed preschool printables and activities that are perfect for your summer lesson plans? Take a look at this list for even more fun ideas that make learning about the ocean fun for preschoolers and kindergartners: 

• Ocean Salt Painting for Kids
• Free Printable Color by Number Ocean Preschool Worksheets
• Coral Collage for Kids
• Free Printable Ocean Dot Painting
• Free Printable J is for Jellyfish Letter J Worksheets
• Stringing Coral Reefs Ocean Investigation Station

We loved each and every one of these adorable ocean STEAM activities and I’m willing to bet that your kiddos will too! After all, the ocean is definitely one of our favorite things to learn about. Nature is so beautiful and inspiring, don’t you think? 

3 Ideas for Ocean Theme Preschool Activities

• Using seashells is a great way to practice counting and one-to-one correspondence in a fun, ocean-themed way. You can practice sorting, comparing, and even measuring too. Either way, seashells are a great manipulative to have on hand for your ocean-themed math center. 
• Grab your art journal and get busy drawing and coloring all things ocean-themed. Check out Ocean Anatomy* to get you started. This book is absolutely beautiful and there are so many wonderful things to learn while getting creative and making your very own ocean nature journal. 
• Learn all about nature and life cycles using these adorable Free Printable Sea Turtle Life Cycle Worksheets. And of course, don’t forget to grab some cute Safari Ltd. Life Cycle of a Green Sea Turtle* mini figurines to make a fun sea turtle life cycle sensory bin too. 

Ocean Books for Preschoolers

There are so many ocean-themed picture books that are perfect for early learners. Here are a few of our favorites: 

• Night of the Moonjellies* by Mark Shasha
• The Rainbow Fish* by Marcus Pfister
• Swimmy* by Leo Lionni
• The Big Book of the Blue* by Yuval Zommer
• Down, Down, Down* by Steven Jenkins

Ocean Printable Preschool Worksheets

This free printable pack is so incredibly versatile, which means it’s perfect for your classroom or homeschool this summer. Be sure to add this cute set of ocean tracing pages to your next preschool or kindergarten ocean unit. 

• Practice important fine motor skills with your young learners while tracing and coloring these ocean-themed worksheets. Older kiddos can practice writing letters or even labeling the ocean animals on each page. 
• Laminate these adorable ocean-themed tracing and coloring pages to use as fine motor mats with play dough or small manipulatives for lots of creative fun.  
• Encourage students to complete all of the ocean tracing and coloring pages and then make their very own ocean picture books. Kindergarten-aged learners can even practice writing their own stories. 
• Create reusable tracing activities for your writing center by laminating the ocean tracing pages and placing them on a tray with dry-erase markers. 

Preschool Ocean Theme Printables

Your preschool and kindergarten learners will have a blast learning all about the ocean and ocean animals with these engaging and hands-on preschool ocean theme tracing printables. This free printable pack is perfect for putting together summer packets for your students or even to work on over summer break.

Continue scrolling to get even more wonderful ideas for creating fun ocean-themed lesson plans to reinforce lots of important early learning skills. 

• Practice shape recognition with your kiddos using these Free Printable Crab Shapes Beach Tracing Worksheets.
• These Free Printable Ocean Finish the Drawing Worksheets are perfect for practicing drawing skills in a fun, ocean-themed way. 
• Free Printable Color by Number Ocean Preschool Worksheets are perfect for having fun while practicing number recognition and color words. 
• Practice measuring and scissor skills with your preschoolers and kindergartners using these adorable Free Printable Ocean Cut and Paste Worksheets.
• Grab your favorite art supplies and learn how to draw with these no-prep printable Ocean Directed Drawing Worksheets.
• Use these adorable Free Printable Tracing Ocean Preschool Worksheets to strengthen important fine motor skills.

Free Printable Ocean Tracing

The following tracing pages are included in this free printable pack: 

• Clown Fish
• Coral
• Diver
• Dolphin
• Eel
• Jellyfish
• Octopus
• Sea Turtle
• Seahorse
• Seaweed
• Shark
• Starfish
• Manta Ray
• Swordfish
• Whale

Ocean Tracing Pages

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This set includes 15 pages of ocean tracing printables that are perfect for your classroom or homeschool. 

Keep in mind that all preschoolers do things in their own time and on their own terms. What one is ready for, another might not be. Please use your best mama judgement when planning activities for your little kids.

I hope you enjoy using these free printable tracing worksheets with your little kids as much as I enjoyed creating them with mine.

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