Apple Letters Tracing for Preschoolers
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With Fall and Johnny Appleseed Day coming soon, these FREE Apple Letters Tracing activities are fun and simple. They are the perfect addition to your preschool writing center and will help your preschoolers practice letter recognition, concentration, and fine motor skills.
This printable includes 26 uppercase letters and 26 lowercase letters. You can get it at the end of this post.
Teaching Letter Formation
Preschoolers must learn proper letter formation and pencil grip because these skills don’t come naturally to all children. Also, when children don’t develop these skills properly, writing becomes especially difficult and stressful.
It is easier to start by tracing letters, beginning with the letters in the child’s name, since they usually identify the letters in their name first. After they know those letters, it’s time to introduce letters with straight lines first because they are the easiest to learn, and then the rest of the letters.
Apple Letters Tracing
These activities are easy to put together, and you will need a handful of materials, which are:
- FREE Apple Letter Tracing printable (found at the end of this post).
- White paper or cardstock.
- Laminator and laminator pouches, or
- Dry-erase pockets.
- Pencils, markers, colored pencils, crayons, or dry-erase markers.
How to Set It Up
This printable offers one page for each of the letters. If you want to use the activities once, print the selected page on regular printer paper. If you’ll use the pages multiple times, print them on white cardstock, laminate them, or place them in dry-erase pockets.
Place the pages in your writing center and offer your preschoolers a variety of writing utensils. This will help your children enjoy learning the letters of the alphabet and stay engaged and interested.
Extension Activities:
- Use these activities to help your preschoolers work on letter discrimination. Since each uppercase and lowercase letter is featured on separate pages, you can ask your preschoolers to match the pages with corresponding uppercase and lowercase letters.
- Have the children find words that start with some or all of the letters around the classroom or in magazines or newspapers.
- They can also try to build letters using playdough.
- Combine these activities with my Apple Shape Match activity to combine Literacy and Math.
Books About Apples
Don’t forget to include storybooks in everything you do. Stories help children learn vocabulary, understand print concepts, and develop their imagination, pre-reading, and pre-writing skills, among other benefits.
These are some Apple-related books. You can find them at your local library, used bookstore, or on Amazon. For your convenience, I added my direct Amazon links to the titles. If you like something, click the link to go directly to the site.
- Ten Happy Apples by Artin Action is a rhyme about an apple and his friends as they play and explore. It helps small children count from one to ten with straightforward text that uses sight words to build early reading habits.
- Five Little Apples by Yusuke Yunezu features basic math concepts, friendly, smiling animals, and a bold, bright, kid-friendly design.
- Apple Pie Time by D. D. Glover incorporates visualizing through all the senses and practices counting through meaningful, beautiful illustrations.
- Mr. Bear’s Apple Tree: A Magical Counting Book by A. J. Wood tells the story of Mr. Bear, who counts the apples on his tree as some hungry bees eat them, one by one.
- Aria Picks Ten Apples by Crystal L. Gantt is an interactive counting book that teaches number and number-name recognition through visual imagery, set against the beautiful backdrop of an apple orchard.
- Ten Red Apples by Pat Hutchins teaches counting from 1 to 10 using pretty apples.
- Apple Tree, Apple Tree, What Do You See? by Sharon Reyford helps preschoolers count from 1 to 10 and includes a few activity pages to reinforce number learning and handwriting.
- Apple Countdown by Joan Holub: This creative countdown, from 20 to 1, includes grouping and simple addition. The inside cover of this cheerful book is filled with apple facts.
- Ten Apples Up on the Top! by Leo LeSieg teaches kids to count to ten with a dose of signature Seuss charm.
Pin It for Later
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I hope you enjoy these free Apple Letters Tracing activities and that they help your preschoolers learn or review their letters.
Don’t forget to grab your FREE Apple Letters Tracing printable by clicking on the link below.
Be happy, safe, and creative. I wish you well.
Love,
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