Spring Pre-Writing Activities for Preschoolers
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These FREE Spring Pre-Writing Activities will help your kiddos work on the development of their fine motor skills, while they learn to recognize and name letters and letter sounds, and some vocabulary words that start with those letters.
Fine motor activities help preschoolers develop the small muscles of their hands, fingers, and thumbs, which then will allow them to perform important tasks such as grasping, buttoning, or feeding themselves, let along the drawing, pasting, and writing, among other ones.
It is important that you give your children a variety of fine motor activities like painting, doing puzzles, and playing with playdough, but also doing prewriting activities that will prepare them to start writing on their one later on.
That is why every time I plan a theme, I always design a variety of writing activities to go along with it. On this occasion, I created these FREE Spring-related pre-writing activities, that will also make an excellent addition to your Spring theme.
Spring Prewriting Activities
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 using nine pages each, for a total of eighteen 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, 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.
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 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 related to each theme, 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 book store, or Amazon. For your convenience, I added my affiliate links to each of the pictures. You just have to click on your favorites and that will bring you to the Amazon website in seconds.
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 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 board on Pinterest.
Your free 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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