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Writing the Alphabet for Preschoolers: the letter W

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There are so many ways to practice forming letters for preschoolers.  Pencil and paper is just one way, and sometimes that’s too challenging.  Read on to find a dozen ways we made the letter W!

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The letter W is a tricky letter.  The down-up-down-up motion can be hard to remember.  In this list of ways that we wrote W, I’ll progress from easy to hard.

child placing power magnets on W is for watermelon worksheet

My kids love to use power magnets to complete these pages from Confessions of a Homeschooler.

child placing dot stickers on W is for whale worksheet

My Three used round office stickers to complete this dot sticker page.

child placing wagon wheel pasta on letter W outline

To make this easier, I could have had my Three make a W out of wagon wheel pasta without the printed W to work in.  However, I learned right away that he’s not ready for that.  Putting objects within a letter’s shape is a great first step!  You can get my big letter W here.

child filling letter W outline with Wheat Thins

Next, he filled the W with Wheat Thins.

child with letter W outline filled with yarn strips

Filling the letter W with yarn strips required a little more thinking.

child writing on letter W worksheet

My Three loves that he can do these handwriting pages himself by writing within the letters.  You can see that he crossed out the tiny W’s. “Those are too hard for me.”  The idea is to start with the biggest letter and keep writing until you are at the tiny ones.  Some day he’ll be ready for the little ones too. I didn’t print one of these for my Four until he protested. “I want to do one of those too! They’re fun!” You can get all of my Letters of All Sizes worksheets here.

child making letter W with fingers

While watching her brothers make the letter W, my Six offered this way.

child writing on letter W worksheet

Here’s another beginning handwriting page. My Four completed this one. You can get it here.

child writing letter W with water on chalkboard

Painting with water is a favorite way to make letters.  My Four made this one.

letter W written in chocolate pudding

Writing letters in chocolate pudding is tricky, but delicious!   My Three needed a lot of help, but my Four just needed a quick reminder: down, up, down, up!

child making letter W with play dough worms

My Four made a W out of play dough worms.

child writing on letter W worksheet

Finally, here are my most challenging handwriting pages so far.  You can see that there’s a lot of guidance until the last line, when kids are given just a single dot to begin.  You can get your copy here.

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    • annageig

      Thank you, Caroline — it consumes all my free time, but I really don’t need TV anyway! I’m thankful to have discovered a passion beyond meal prep and house cleaning 🙂

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