Free Prewriting Printable: Funky Prewriting Tracing Strips
Prewriting can be hard for alot of kids. And some times you need a more challenging prewriting lines.
This fun funky prewriting tracing strip printable has fun lines for kids to trace. And it is not your standard straight lines.
A great prewriting printable for kids in preschool, prek and kindergarten.
The Funky Prewriting Tracing Strips is part of the 5 Day of Preschool Printables.
The Funky Prewriting Tracing Strips Printable is a great addition to the prewriting printables on the site.
The Funky Prewriting Tracing Strips is part of my subscriber library. You can subscribe to the newsletter and get access to the password there. You will find it in the prewriting section on the subscriber freebie page.
So what is pre-writing?
I remember the first time I heard the word pre-writing in school. My first thought was writing a paper or starting a paper.
But for young kids, pre-writing is the skill to build to work up to writing letters and other types of writing. It also teaches the direction that we read.
You can start a lot of those skills with fine motor activities with playdough and other small motor movements. But a lot of those skills are working up to prewriting with lines. Then working on more fine motor skills that help to do better with writing and reading later in life.
You start out with thick prewriting lines and work to thinner prewriting lines. Then to prewriting patterns that work into writing letters.
Funky Prewriting Tracing Strips Printable
The funky prewriting tracing strips printable is a fun prewriting printable with line dashed lines that are different and unique.
They have a different types of writing lines on each strip. Plus they are unique so kids will not have done them below.
You have 12 prewriting strips in the set.
The prewriting lines start out simple and work into something more complex.
You can see a little more complex prewriting line in there prewriting strips below. And remember each of these lines is unique and a little funky.
Things to use with the Funky Prewriting Tracing Strips Printable
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- printer
- white copy paper
- white cardstock
- color cardstock
- laminator
- laminating pouches
- sheet protector
- dry erase markers
- binder
Ways to Use the Funky Prewriting Tracing Strips Printable
You will see some suggestion on how to use the prewriting tracing strips and how to prepare them.
Preparing the Funky Prewriting Tracing Strips Printable
You want to print the prewriting tracing strips on cardstock. The cardstock helps them last longer. And then make sure to laminate the strips.
If you have a good laminator you can laminate and then cut, If you don’t I suggest cutting and then laminating.
Store the Prewriting Strips on a Ring
You can store the prewriting stirps on a ring. This is a great way to keep all the strips together. Plus you can put the prewriting lines you want in a set and keep those together.
Fine Motor Tracing Center with the Funky Prewriting Tracing Strips Printable
These fine motor prewriting tracing stirps are great for fine motor centers. You put the tracing strips you want kids to use on a ring.
Then give them a dry erase marker to trace the lines. Then you can use these strips with lots of kids or a few kids.
As a warning colored dry erase markers don’t always come off as easy. Black dry erase markers work best.
Tracing the Prewriting Strips
After you have the center set up then let kids begin tracing the lines. You can see how simple this can be. You can have them trace all the lines and then clean them off or trace and then clean off the line before going tot he next prewriting tracing strip.
Use a Cotton Swab to Clean off the Tracing the Prewriting Strips
If you want to give them a challenge after they trace the strips, then give them a cotton swab or q-tip and have them wipe off their prewriting line with the cottons swab.
It is extra fine motor prewriting practice for kids, but you can make it fun.
Print the Funky Prewriting Strip Printables on Colored Cardstock
Don’t forget because these are black and white that you can print them on color cardstock.
You could use a different color for the seasons and have a fun seasonal prewriting strips for kids to use.
Of use their favorite color for the tracing strips.
Tracing the Prewriting Strips in a Sheet Protector
If you dont want to laminate then I suggest using a sheet protector. This allows you to still use dry erase markers and you can put a whole sheet of the prewriting strips in for kids to trace.
And you can do the pages on colored paper as well.
Use Playdough on the Prewriting Lines
You might love these prewriting strips but you are not ready for tracing lines. Then don’t trace them.
You can use playdough snakes and match the snakes to the prewriting lines. It is a great hands-on use for the prewriting strips.
Use Small Items to Line the Prewriting Lines
Another hands-on activity is to use small items the prewriting strips. You could use glass gems, erasers, counters, or really any small items you have around the house.
Just have them place the small items on the prewriting strips.
More Fine Motor Prewriting Strips for kids
If you are looking for more prewriting strips you can find some in the Fine Motor: Prewriting set. It has several more prewriting strips plus a HUGE amount of prewriting worksheets and books.
What you will find in the Free Funky Prewriting Tracing Strips Printable
- Prewriting Strips with unique lines
- Each line is different with different twists on each set
- 12 Prewriting Strips Total
- 3 pages
Fine Motor Prewriting Printable Set
Looking for more pre-writing printables or want it just ready to print and use. Then check out the Fine Motor Prewriting Printable Set.
This set includes some of the printables above in an easy no-prep printable set. Plus additional and new printables. The sets include big and thin dashed lines, no-prep pages, prewriting strips, easy reader book and more!
What you will find in the Fine Motor Prewriting Set printables:
- Big Solid and Dashes Prewriting Lines with a start and stop.
- Big Solid and Dashes Prewriting mixed with start and stop
- Thin Prewriting lines with start and stop.
- Thin Lines Prewriting mixed with start and stop.
- Prewriting Practice with prewriting fonts in guidelines with start and stop.
- Prewriting Practice with Patterns with prewriting fonts – Large Font
- Prewriting Practice prewriting fonts single repeated prewriting
- Prewriting Practice with prewriting fonts all fonts together
- Prewriting Practice Patterns with prewriting fonts – Single Pattern Repeated
- Prewriting Practice Patterns with prewriting fonts – mixed patterns together
- Prewriting Practice Patterns Finish the Patterns with prewriting fonts – mixed patterns together
- Prewriting Practice Spin & Trace Prewriting Fonts
- Prewriting Strips: Big Solid Prewriting Lines with Stop & Start – Color and Black & White
- Prewriting Strips: Big Dashed Prewriting Lines with Stop & Start – Color and Black & White
- Prewriting Strips: Prewriting thin lines with start and stop – Color and Black & White
- Prewriting Strips: Prewriting Practice with prewriting fonts in guidelines with start and stop – Color and Black & White
- Prewriting Strips: Prewriting Practice with prewriting fonts in guidelines.
- Prewriting Strips: Prewriting Practice Patterns
- Prewriting Easy Reader Books Big Dashes Lines – Single Print
- Prewriting Easy Reader Books Big Dashes Lines – Teacher Print
- Prewriting Easy Reader Books Thin Dashes Lines – Single Print
- Prewriting Easy Reader Books Thin Dashes Lines – Teacher Print
- 174 pages
- Price: $8
Other Prewriting Strips for Kids
The Fine Motor Prewriting Set has 174 pages of different types of prewriting. You have prewriting thick lines, prewriting thin lines, prewriting start and stop, prewriting patterns, prewriting tracing strips, prewriting easy reader books and more. All with the idea of giving you the most prewriting activities altogether! A great collection of prewriting worksheets.
Car Prewriting Strips has 10 fun prewriting lines for kids to trace that work great for a learning center. You have a car driving to different mountains.
Turkey Prewriting Tracing Strips have fun thick prewriting lines for kids to trace.
Spider Prewriting Tracing Strips that are great for a bug theme or a Halloween theme. You will find thin lines in the prewriting printable.
Check out all the fun Prewriting Printables and Activities on 3 Dinosaurs.
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