Can a three or four year old do this sheet?

If they can hold a pencil and trace a line, yes. Nothing has to be spelled or written from memory. The pictures say the words and the dots give the letters.

Rhyming is a listening skill. Why trace the words?

The listening comes first, out loud, and the tracing shows the child what the ear just heard: both words end with the same letters, and the hand copies them twice.

The kindergarten rhyming sheet, where the same pairs come with empty lines and the child writes both words.

Preschool rhyming pictures

Preschool rhyming pictures worksheets

Rhyming pictures are two things whose names end with the same sound: a cat and a hat, a bug and a mug. On this preschool sheet the pair sits side by side and each word is printed underneath in dots, so a child who cannot spell yet says both names out loud and traces them.

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The kind of rhyming pairs you'll trace

Say both picture names. They rhyme. Then trace both words.

lock
rock
stick
kick
clip
hip

Each print draws four fresh pairs from the short-vowel word families. Two pictures whose names rhyme sit side by side, and under each one the word is printed as a dotted outline on a writing guide; the key page writes both words of every pair out in ink.

Every print pulls a new set of rhyming pairs at this level, so a make-up test or a second sibling gets a different mix.

What's on a preschool sheet

Preschool sheets draw from 62 rhyming pairs, 4 to a page. Pre-K to 1st grade print from the same 62 rhyming pairs. The teaching notes below are written for this grade. Kindergarten sheets print 6 to a page.

Some of the words:

ratmanpantrapvestbrickstickrocktopjug

Trace the rhymes. Say both picture names. They rhyme. Then trace both words. 4 rhyming pairs per page.

Every version prints on US Letter or A4, with its answer key on the last page.

How to teach this

Name both pictures out loud before any pencil moves, then say them one after the other so the ending matches in the child's ear first: cat, hat. Trace the left word, say it again, then the right one. Four pairs is one sitting at this age. Stopping at two is fine, and the same sheet tomorrow is how the rhymes stick.

Watch for: Thinking words rhyme because they start the same. Cat and cap begin alike but do not rhyme; cat and hat do. The rhyme lives at the end of the word. Writing one word and copying its ending onto the other without saying it. Have the child say both names aloud before writing; the ear does the work, then the pencil.

Common questions about preschool rhyming pictures

Can a three or four year old do this sheet?: If they can hold a pencil and trace a line, yes. Nothing has to be spelled or written from memory. The pictures say the words and the dots give the letters.
Rhyming is a listening skill. Why trace the words?: The listening comes first, out loud, and the tracing shows the child what the ear just heard: both words end with the same letters, and the hand copies them twice.
What comes next?: The kindergarten rhyming sheet, where the same pairs come with empty lines and the child writes both words.

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Reviewed by the One more sheet team. Content version 241, updated September 2026.

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