Spring Pre-Writing for Preschoolers
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These FREE Spring Pre-Writing Activities will help your kiddos develop their fine motor skills. At the same time, they learn to recognize and name letters and letter sounds, as well as vocabulary words that start with those letters, and will also make an excellent addition to your Spring.
Fine motor activities help preschoolers develop the small muscles of their hands, fingers, and thumbs, which then will allow them to perform essential tasks such as grasping, buttoning, or feeding themselves, let alone drawing, pasting, and writing, among other things.
You must give your children a variety of fine motor activities, such as painting, doing puzzles, and playing with playdough, as well as prewriting activities that will prepare them to write on their own later. That is why I always recommend including a variety of writing activities for each theme.
Spring Prewriting
These free pre-writing activities will help preschoolers develop a proper pencil grasp and strengthen their language, vocabulary, and letter recognition. At the same time, these activities will bring something different to your preschool classroom this Spring.
The pack includes two types of tracing activities, each using nine pages, for a total of 18 pages with the letters Ss for Spring and sun, Ff for flower, Rr for rain, Bb for bird and bug, Ll for leaf, and Tt for tree. You can find them at the end of this post.
How to Prepare the Spring 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.
These pre-writing activities can be used 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, you can add Spring writing materials and manipulatives to the mix and combine them with my other Spring activities. They all come with free printables, and you can get them by just clicking on the links below:
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 recommend including storybooks for each theme, and making sure you add new ones to your library, book baskets, and centers. These are some of my favorite Spring stories. You can find them at your local library, used bookstore, or Amazon. For your convenience, I added my affiliate links to each title. You have to click on your favorites, and that will take you to the Amazon website in seconds.
- Spring is Here: a Bear and Mole Story by Will Hillenbrand. Full of simple sound words and lots of repetition, this book will engage preschoolers in celebrating this season, using mixed-media illustrations, details, and humor.
- Lola Plants a Garden by Lola McQuinn. This story tells of a little girl who wants to plant some flowers and, with her mom’s help, buys the seeds, makes the garden, marks the rows, and watches the flowers bloom.
- ” When Spring Comes by Kevin Henkes is a beautiful book for young children. The author uses striking imagery, repetition, and alliteration to introduce basic language concepts and the changing of the seasons.
- I Am Spring by Rebecca McDonald. This sweet story takes young children on a journey through the many significant events that occur uniquely in the beautiful growing season of Spring.
- What Can You See in Spring? by Sian Smith. Using beautiful photos, straightforward repeated text, high-frequency and decodable words, and strong photo-to-text matching, this book shows children what they can see in spring, including typical spring activities and new life and growth in the natural world.
- Goodbye Winter, Hello Spring by Kenard Pak. This story is about a boy and his dog exploring nature and saying goodbye to winter and spring.
- I See Spring by Charles Ghigna. This story celebrates the season of Spring with a rhyming, easy-to-read test about raindrops, robins, bluebells, and butterflies!
- It Just Blooms by Deanna Chesley. This is a story that will help children of all ages understand that they are perfect just the way they are and can bloom in their own special way at their own ideal time!
- Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert. This author uses this book to teach young children about colors and flowers.
- The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle. A classic story about the life cycle of a flower, told through the adventures of a tiny seed, is perfect for children to act out and to use as inspiration for creating their own wildflower garden.
- Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt by Kate Messner. This sweet story talks about things you see in the garden, like leaves and sprouts, growing vegetables, and ripening fruit, but also about the world of earthworms digging, snakes hunting, skunks burrowing, and all the other animals that make a garden their home.
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 engaged.
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 Spring or literacy boards on Pinterest.
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Be happy, safe, and creative. I wish you well.
Love,
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