Easter Pre-Writing Activities for Preschoolers -

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 their fingers and hands, develop a proper pencil grasp, and strengthen their language and letter recognition. At the same time, these activities will bring something new to your preschool classroom this Easter.

Importance of Writing Letters in Preschool

When you give preschoolers opportunities to engage in different fine motor activities, you are also helping them develop the small muscles in their hands, fingers, and thumbs. Without these skills, it is tough for them to perform essential tasks such as grasping, buttoning, and feeding themselves, let alone drawing, pasting, and writing, among others.

That is why it’s so important for your kiddos to build those little muscles in preschool through a variety of activities like painting, doing puzzles, playing with play-dough, and 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 activities include using shaving cream, sand, and paint to write letters without using a pencil, crayon, or marker.

Some children are already more advanced and ready to start writing letters because they have the necessary skills. That is why, every time I plan a theme, I design a writing activity to go with it.

Easter Prewriting

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 go 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, select the ones you want, 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 suggest printing them on white cardstock, laminating them, or placing them in a dry–erase pouch, and having the children use a dry–erase marker to trace them.

You can use these pre-writing activities as a small-group activity, a Writing and Literacy centers option, a take-home game, or a Quiet area option.

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

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 bookstore, or Amazon. For your convenience, I added my affiliate links to each title. Click your favorites, and you’ll be taken to the Amazon website in seconds.

The Berenstain Bears and the Easter Story by Mike Berenstain. This book helps young readers understand the real meaning behind Easter.

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 springtime 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 follows a turkey as it tries 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 nature illustrations, 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. Just click the link below to get them, then print them, 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 keep your children engaged and help them develop the skills they need to build a solid foundation for future reading and writing in Kindergarten. Use every opportunity to give them plenty of variety and choices for their different skill levels 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 they need to stay interested.

This doesn’t mean giving them twenty different choices every day. What I mean by many activities is offering two to four different activities each day, and changing them to match 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.

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

Love,

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