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 as well.
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, they find writing most difficult and stressful.
It is easier to start introducing how to trace the letters beginning with the letters in the child’s name since they normally identify the letters of 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 Activities
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, 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.
Place the pages in your writing center and offer your preschoolers a variety of writing utensils. That way, your children will enjoy learning the letters of the alphabet, which will keep them 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.
- You can have the children find words that start with some or all 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 book store, or on Amazon. For your convenience, I added my direct Amazon links to the titles. If you like anything, click on it, which will take you directly to the site.
- Ten Happy Apples by Artin Action is a rhyme about an apple and his friends who have fun playing and adventuring. It is designed to help small children count from one to ten with straightforward text that utilizes sight words to promote 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 Bookby 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 interacting counting book that teaches both number and number name recognition through visual imagery, set against the beautiful backdrop of an apple orchard.
- Ten Red Apples by Pat Hutchins teaches how to count 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 additions. 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 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.
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