Fine Motor Fun for Pre-Writers

Give your preschooler's fine motor skills a workout with this collection of worksheets, focusing on core pre-
writing skills such as cutting, tracing and writing the alphabet.
Table of Contents
Prewriting Skills: Horizontal Lines
A is for Apple! Practice Writing the Letter A
Prewriting Skills: Circles
Cutting: Snake Spiral
Trace and Write the Letter B
Prewriting Skills: Diagonal Lines 2
What Doesn't Belong at School?
Sort the Shirts
Cutting Wavy Lines: Oliver the Octopus
Get Ready for Reading: All About the Letter C
prewriting

Back to School
This school bus needs to get to school.
Trace the lines on the street to follow the school bus to school.
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SCHOOL

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 Uppercase Letters
Writing the letter A

1 APPLE
The apples are falling from the tree!
Color the apples on the ground.

AA
2 Draw a line from the gray dots ( ) to the blue dots ( ).
Go in the order of the numbers.
1 1
2 2

3 3

3 Now trace the letter A on the lines below. Go in the order of the numbers.
Then print the letter A yourself!
1 2

3
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Let’s Blow Bubbles!

First practice tracing the circles between the lines.
Then trace the bubbles in the picture and color them in.
Snake Spiral
Snakes come in different shapes and sizes.
Some have stripes and some have spots.
Color the snake below with your favorite
colors, then cut along the spiral for a
bouncy snake toy!
This is the letter B.

B
Trace the letter B.

B_B_B_B_B
Say the name of each picture. Write the letter B next to the
pictures that start with the letter B.
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Slippery Snake Stripes

Oops! This snake is missing his stripes.
Trace the lines to draw stripes on the snake.
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What color stripes does your snake have?

Back to School
Some of these things don’t belong with the others. Can you find them?
Say the name of each picture. Circle the one that doesn’t belong.
T-Shirt Twins

Can you match each shirt with its twin?

Oliver the Octopus
Did you know that an octopus has eight tentacles?
Cut out the tentacles on the next page.
Then, glue them on Oliver the Octopus to finish the picture.

1 8
2 7
3 4 5 6
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A About the T F U N
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Letter C
Trace the dotted lines on the letter C. Then write your own C next to it! Repeat.

Write the letter c in the space below. Circle all the letter c’s in the words below.

All these objects have the letter c in their name. Circle the c in the name, then color in the object.

co m et
c la m
c cat cup
C
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Answer Sheets
Fine Motor Fun for Pre-Writers
Get Ready for Reading: All About the Letter C
Answer Key
ALPHAB
E
A About the T F U N
ll
Letter C
Trace the dotted lines on the letter C. Then write your own C next to it! Repeat.

Write the letter c in the space below. Circle all the letter c’s in the words below.

c All these objects have the letter c in their name. Circle the c in the name, then color in the object.

co m et
c la m
c cat cup
C
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