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Handwriting Practice for Preschoolers

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Over the last year and a half, my two preschool boys have been doing a lot of handwriting practice. But it’s not all worksheets. We start with concrete, hands-on ways to form their letters.

7 ideas for preschool handwriting practice

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I cut out small squares from my scrap booking supplies (since I have not found time to scrapbook since, oh… 2009).  Then I printed a giant letter Q (get yours HERE), and my Four filled it with quilt squares.

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Next, he made a Q with quarters.  This was a little tough for him at first, so I helped him stretch out the coins instead of having them in a jumble.  His shape was more of a low, wide oval than a tall one, but I wanted him to do as much as possible by himself.  Can you find the nickel among the quarters? Whoops!

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My Five used some lacing strings to make a Q.

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My Five was quite pleased to make the letter Q in raw sugar (with a few licks between each practice!).  I thought about doing this in quinoa (as my Seven suggested), but that stuff is expensive!

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My Four does beginning handwriting practice with my Letters of All Sizes pages.  Check out the entire collection in this post.

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I always start my Five with a page of large letters.  Check out my entire collection of large letters on two lines.

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My Five finishes with these level three pages.

 

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: fine motor, preschool, kindergarten, Pre-K

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4 Comments

  1. Carmel

    September 1, 2018 at 7:56 am

    Hi, thank you so much for all the preparation you have done! I have recently started working in a daycare centre with 3-4 year olds after teaching year 2 and your site has helped me so much. Eternally grateful 🙂

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    • Anna G

      September 13, 2018 at 5:11 pm

      You’re welcome!

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  2. melissa

    October 12, 2014 at 10:40 am

    I love your site, I am teaching an all day 3 year old preschool, and I get everything from your site, so thank you very much! I am dong letter U next week, do you happen to have the letter U dot sticker page ready? My class loves doing the dot stickers! Thank you.

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    • Anna Geiger

      October 14, 2014 at 4:49 pm

      Hi Melissa!

      I haven’t posted the letter U dot sticker page yet – partly because I’m waiting for my new camera to come in the mail – but I expect it to be on the blog in a few days. Stay tuned. 🙂

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