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, which made them 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 proper pencil grip because it doesn’t come naturally to all children. Also when children don’t develop this skill 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 then it’s time to introduce letters with straight lines first because they are the easiest to learn, and finally the rest of the letters.
Apple Letters Tracing Activities
These activities are very 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 you one page for each of the letters. If you want to use the activities for one-time use, 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 in white cardstock and 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, and will also keep them engaged and interested.
Extension Activities
- Use these activities to help your preschoolers work on their letter discrimination. Since each uppercase and lowercase letter are 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 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 pictures. If you like any, just click on it and it will take you directly to the site.
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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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