Easter Pre-Writing Activities for Preschoolers

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Easter Pre-Writing Activities for Preschoolers

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These FREE Easter Pre-Writing Activities will help preschoolers develop their fine motor skills build strength in the muscles on their fingers and hands, develop a proper pencil grasp, and strengthen the children’s language, and letter recognition as well.  At the same time, these activities will bring something different to your preschool classroom this Easter month.

Importance of Writing Letters in Preschool

When you provide preschoolers with opportunities to do different types of fine motor activities, you are also helping them develop the small muscles of their hands, fingers, and thumbs. Without these skills, it is very difficult for them to be able to perform important tasks such as grasping, buttoning, or feeding themselves, let alone drawing, pasting, and writing, among other ones. 

That is why so important that your kiddos exercise those little muscles in preschool a lot, doing a variety of activities like painting, doing puzzles, and playing with play dough, but also doing prewriting activities that will prepare them to start writing later.

Once you have given your preschoolers plenty of pre-writing activities, you can encourage them to begin writing letters, using a variety of age-appropriate activities. Some of the activities you can have them do are using shaving cream, sand, and paint to write the letters without the use of a pencil, crayon, or marker.

Now, there are always those children that are more advanced, and that are ready to start writing letters because they have the necessary skills to do it. That is why every time I plan a theme, I always design a writing activity to go along with it. 

Easter Prewriting Activities

This Easter Pre-writing activities pack includes two types of tracing activities using seven pages each, for a total of fourteen pages with the letters Bb for basket and bunny, Cc for carrot and chick, Ee for Easter and Egg, and Rr for rabbit, which goes with the vocabulary words that I also chose for this theme.  You can find them at the end of this post.

How to Prepare the Easter Pre-Writing Activities

If you want to use these activities individually, just select the ones you want to use, print them on white paper, and have the children use a pencil, crayon, or marker to trace the letters and words.  But, if you want them to be used multiple times, I will suggest printing them on white cardstock and laminating them or placing them in a dry–erase pouch, and having the children use a dry–erase marker to trace them. 

These pre-writing activities can be used as a small group activity, Writing and Literacy centers option, take-home game, or Quiet area option.

To make it more fun and give your children more variety and choices, you can add Easter writing materials and manipulatives to the mix, and combine them with my other Easter activities.  They all come with free printables and you can get them by just clicking on the links below.

• Easter Basket Letter Match.
• Easter Count and Clip Cards.
• Easter Math Puzzles.
• Easter Memory Game.
• Easter Trace the Shapes Activities.
• Easter Wall Word Cards.
• Easter Pattern Activities.
• Easter Beginning Sound Clip Cards.

Extension Activities

To extend the activity you can use it to:

• Teach or review letter sounds and names.
• Spell the words.
• Match each letter and word with magnetic, foam, or wooden letters.
• Copy the letters and words with playdough.

Don’t Forget Your Stories

Reading and writing go together, and children cannot properly learn one without the other.  That is why I always include storybooks every day and with every theme.  Besides, kids love stories, so take advantage of this, and read to your children every day.

These are some of my favorite Easter stories. You can find them at your local library, used book store, or Amazon.  For your convenience, I added my affiliate links to each of the titles.  You just have to click on your favorites and that will bring you to the Amazon website in seconds.

• The Berenstain Bears and the Easter Story by Mike Berenstain.  Young readers will understand the real meaning behind Easter with this book.

• A Very Happy Easter by Tim Thornborough.  This book is a great way to make story time interactive and explain Easter to young children in a way that connects emotionally and builds empathy.

• 5-Minute Easter Stories by Disney Books.  This book brings stories about spring-time fun or Easter Egg hunts.  Every story is a delight, perfect before bedtime, storytime, or anytime!

• The Story of the Easter Bunny by Katherine Tegen.  With gorgeous and peaceful art, this fresh, innovative story describes how one little rabbit became a legend.

• Turkey’s Eggcellent Easter by Wendi Silvano.  This cute book talks about a turkey trying to win the eggstra-special Easter egg hunt!  A fun book that will encourage your children’s imagination.

• Good News! It’s Easter! By Glenys Nellist.  The Easter season is an exciting time of growth and reflection as both nature and our human hearts anticipate the hope of new beginnings. Through playful illustrations in nature, this author introduces children to the gift of salvation.

• It’s Not Easy Being a Bunny by Marilyn Sadler.   This book encourages children to read all on their own, using simple words and illustrations, perfect for practicing readers ages 3-7, and lucky parents too!

• Pete the Cat: Five Little Bunnies by James Dean.  Sing along with Pete the Cat in his fun adaptation of “Five Little Monkeys”. Fans of Pete the Cat will love rocking out to this classic tune with a groovy Easter twist in this hardcover picture book.

I always recommend using a pointer when you are reading.  That way you will show your children that you read from left to right and top to bottom, and also that words have meaning. 

Of course, since I like to tie everything together, I created some pointers as another gift to you.  Just click on the link below to get them, and once you do, print them out, laminate them, and stick them to a tongue depressor.  That’s it.  Remember to use them to follow the words or point at the pictures in the story you are reading.  You can even make extra ones and place them in the Library and Writing centers.

You will never have too many activities to offer your children, to keep them engaged and help them develop the necessary skills they will need to create a solid foundation for their future reading and writing in Kindergarten. Use every opportunity to give them plenty of variety and choices, for their different levels of skills and interests, and most importantly, have fun while doing it.  The children will pick up on your excitement and it will give them the extra encouragement to keep them interested.

This doesn’t mean giving them twenty different choices every day. What I’m trying to say with many activities is offering them two to four different activities every day, and changing them according to the theme or season you are talking about.

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 Easter or literacy Pinterest boards for later.

Your free Easter Pre-writing activities pack is below.  I hope you find it useful.  Just enter your email address in the box to confirm your subscription and the pdf file will open instantly for you to print and save.  If you are currently a subscriber, you won’t be subscribed twice.

Be happy, safe, and creative. I wish you well.

Love,

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