Drawing Ovals Worksheet

Learning to recognize and form an oval is one of the first steps a young child takes into geometry, and this Drawing Ovals Worksheet gives them a gentle, hands-on way to do it. An oval is a curved, closed shape that is longer in one direction than the other, which makes it easy to confuse with a circle. Kindergarten students who practice tracing the curve with their own hand begin to feel the difference long before they can explain it in words. That physical memory is what makes the shape stick.

This kindergarten geometry worksheet moves through three short activities that build on one another. Students begin by tracing three dotted ovals of different sizes and orientations, so they meet the shape wide, tall, and large rather than in only one form. Next they color every oval in a mixed group of six shapes, sorting ovals from a triangle, a circle, and a square. Finally they look at three everyday pictures and circle the one that is shaped like an oval. Print it, hand out crayons, and the lesson is ready to go.

What’s Included

• 1 print-ready PDF worksheet
• Answer key
• 3 activities: tracing ovals, coloring ovals in a shape sort, and identifying a real-world oval

There are three reasons this Drawing Ovals Worksheet helps children learn the skill so quickly. First, tracing builds the fine motor control a child needs to draw a smooth curve, which is the same control they will use to form letters. Second, mixing ovals in with circles, squares, and triangles forces real discrimination instead of simple copying, so students have to look carefully at each outline. Third, the closing picture activity connects the abstract shape to an object children already know, which is exactly how young learners transfer a new idea into everyday life.

Teachers and parents can stretch this lesson well past the page. Go on an oval hunt around the room or the kitchen and count what you find: an egg, a serving platter, a bar of soap, a mirror. Roll out play dough snakes and bend them into ovals, then compare them to circles made the same way. Draw a giant oval on the sidewalk with chalk and let children walk the outline heel to toe. Sort shape blocks into an oval pile and a not-an-oval pile, and ask children to explain each choice out loud. Finish by singing a shapes song together so the vocabulary sticks.

Related Resources

• Drawing Circle, Triangle, Square Shapes Worksheet
• Identifying Shapes Worksheet
• Flat and Solid Shapes Worksheet
• Shapes Song (Have Fun Teaching)