Winter Letters Tracing for Preschoolers
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With Winter starting soon, these FREE Winter Letters Tracing activities are fun and simple. They make the perfect addition to your preschool classroom or home school and will help your preschoolers practice letter recognition, concentration, and fine motor skills as well.
This printable includes 26 uppercase letters and 26 lowercase letters. It is available at the end of this post.
Teaching Letter Formation to Preschoolers
Proper letter formation and pencil grip are less difficult and stressful for preschoolers to learn because they don’t come naturally to all children. These skills involve the development of the small muscles on fingers and hands and the connection between eye and hand.
To do that, you should invite them to do multiple activities every day to set up the foundation for developing fine motor skills, which will help them trace letters correctly. There are many activities you can use to teach letter formation, such as:
- Use recognizable items to create an alphabet chart.
- Tracing letters in the air.
- Tracing letters in sandpaper, dry rice, sand, or shaving cream.
- Using songs, rhymes, and sound games.
- Matching written letters with magnetic, foam, or wooden letters.
- Finding letters in different prints like newspapers, books, and magazines.
- Drawing, coloring, and sculpting with Play-Doh.
- Tracing dotted line letters.
A recommended order to teach letter formation is to start with the most accessible letters (l, t, i, u, j, y). Continue with the second easiest ones (c, a, g, q, o, e, f, s). Then, teach the no-so-easy ones ( r, n, m, p, h, b, d) and finish with the most difficult ones (v, w, x, k, z).
Therefore, I suggest using your best judgment, taking into consideration your preschooler’s developmental level, to use this printable. Since I’ve included all the letters of the alphabet, you can use any letter you need for each of your children’s abilities.
Winter Letters Tracing Activities
These activities are easy to put together, and you will need a handful of materials, which are:
- Winter Letters Tracing printable (found at the end of this post).
- Printer.
- White paper or cardstock.
- Laminator, and laminator pouches, or
- Dry-erase pockets.
- Pencils, markers, colored pencils, crayons or dry-erase.
How to Set It Up
This printable offers one page for each of the letters. If you want to use the activities once, you only need to print the selected page on regular printer paper. If you’re going to use the pages multiple times, print them out on white cardstock, laminate them, or place them in dry-erase pockets.
Extension Activities
- Use these activities to help your preschoolers work on their letter discrimination. Since each uppercase and lowercase letter is featured on separate pages, you can ask your preschoolers to match the pages with corresponding upper and lowercase letters.
- You can have the children find words that start with some or all the letters around the classroom or in magazines, newspapers, and books.
- They can also try to build letters using playdough.
You can also combine this with other Winter activities, to give your preschoolers choices in the different centers. Below are some suggestions. They all come with free printables.
- Build a Snowman.
- Penguin Graphing Game.
- Polar Bear Counting & Writing.
- Snowflakes Letter Match.
- Winter Alphabet Cards.
- Winter Animal Shadow Match.
- Winter Beginning Sounds.
- Winter Calendar Numbers.
- Winter Theme and Centers.
Winter-related Books
Stories help children learn vocabulary, understand print concepts, and develop their imagination, pre-reading, and pre-writing skills, among other benefits. That’s why I recommend reading to your children every day, multiple times a day, if possible.
These are some Winter-related books. You can find them at your local library, used book store, or on Amazon. For your convenience, I added my direct Amazon links to the titles. If you want to learn more about any, just click on it, and it will take you directly to the site.
There are so many good books out there that it will be impossible to mention all of them in your one post. Because of that, I want to give you just some good titles you can use. You can find all these books at your local library, a used books store, and, of course, on Amazon. To make it easier to add to your collection, click on the titles, and it will take you directly to my affiliate links.
- What’s a Season: Winter by Kelly Grettlel. With colorful, rhythmic text, this book will show your kiddos what makes winter magical and fun.
- Curious About Snow by Gina Shaw. With beautiful snowflake photos, this book looks at the science behind snow, the history of record-setting blizzards and snowstorms, and how people have fun in the snow!
- The Biggest Snowman Ever by Steven Kroll is a fun story about Clayton and Desmond’s collaboration to build the biggest snowman ever for the town’s contest.
- Ten Sparkly Snowflakes by Tiger Tales. A cut math book that used woodland animals to show children how the number of snowflakes decreases from 10 to 1 with each turn of the page.
- Animals in Winter by Henrietta Bancroft. This book is a little advanced for preschoolers, but it can help you introduce your kids to basic science ideas during discussions about the seasons and animals.
- Goodbye Autumn, Hello Winter by Kenard Pak. A brother and sister will take children on a journey as they explore nature and stroll through their twinkling town, greeting all the signs of the coming winter.
- What’s a Season: Winter by Kelly Grettlel. With colorful, rhythmic text, this book will show your kiddos what makes winter magical and fun.
- Curious About Snow by Gina Shaw. With beautiful snowflake photos, this book looks at the science behind snow, the history of record-setting blizzards and snowstorms, and how people have fun in the snow!
Pin It for Later
If you are in a rush and don’t have time to read the post and download the printable but want to save it for later, pin it to one of your Pinterest boards, so you can have it available when you need it.
I hope you enjoy these free Winter Letters Tracing activities, and help your preschoolers learn or review their letters.
Don’t forget to grab your FREE Winter Letters Tracing printable, by clicking on the link below.
Be happy, safe, and creative. I wish you well.
Love,
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