59+ Prewriting Printables For Kids

One of the earliest fine motor writing activities that kids do in preschool and kindergarten is working up to doing prewriting. There are many different fine motor writing activities that you can do with prewriting.

I’ve made a few prewriting printables over the years and I wanted to share all of them with you. These have a variety of levels of learning with different line activities for kids to use.

They are a great way to work on different levels of prewriting for kids.

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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.

All of these prewriting printables are great line tracing printables.

Things to use with the Prewriting Printables

There are just a few of the items we use with the prewriting printables. They are handy to have as you need them.

• printer
• copy paper
• sheet protectors
• dry erase markers
• pencil
• pencil grips
• q-tip
• dot marker or bingo daubers
• watercolors
• crayons
• colored pencils
• markers
• playdough
• glass gems

Prewriting Printables & Activities Menu

A jump to the prewriting printables and activities you are looking for. These are all the sections you will find below.

Prewriting Printable Sets
Easy to Use No-Prep Prewriting Line Worksheets
Themed & Seasonal Prewriting Printables
Prewriting in Activity Packs

Prewriting Printable Sets

I have two sets for prewriting. They have a LOT of fine motor prewriting activities in two different types. You can do prewriting lines and prewriting dots.

1. Fine Motor Prewriting Set Printable

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.

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2. Fine Motor Prewriting Dot Set Printable

The Fine Motor Prewriting Dot Set has 154 pages of prewriting with dot markers and q-tips. You are going to find no-prep worksheets, tracing strips, easy reader books, shapes and more. All working on early fine motor skills in a slightly different way. These are great starter area is you are not ready for prewriting lines.

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Easy to Use No-Prep Prewriting Line Worksheets

These prewriting worksheets are simple and easy to use worksheets with a few options of prewriting in each of the printables. They come in a variety of ways to use them.

Plus you can pick the level of prewriting that your kids are at.

3. Prewriting Practice Solid & Dashed Printables

Prewriting Practice Solid & Dashed Printables has thick lines in a solid line and a thick dashed line for kids that need bigger lines. Plus has a start and stop for kids to use.

4. Prewriting Practice Printables

Prewriting Practice Printables has thin lines for kids to trace. There are several different lines to work on. There is only one line type on each page.

5. Prewriting Practice Dice Printables

Prewriting Practice Dice is a fun prewriting activity with dice you roll and then write what is on the dice.

6. Prewriting Practice Patterns Printables

Prewriting Practice Patterns is a more complicated prewriting printable with prewriting patterns in guidelines. This is a great build up to writing letters.

7. Q-Tip Prewriting Printables

Q-Tip Prewriting Printables is a wonderful fine motor activity with prewriting with small circles for kids to use q-tips on.

8. Prewriting Dot Marker Printables

Prewriting Dot Marker Printables is great for fine motor development of matching the dot marker to the cirles in different line patterns.

9. Funky Prewriting Tracing Strips

Funky Prewriting Tracing Strips are fun prewriting strips that can be used as prewriting strips or as prewriting worksheets. You have 12 different prewriting strips to use.

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Themed & Seasonal Prewriting Printables

These are some of the mini pre-writing activities that I have made. They are a mix of prewriting lines and prewriting in a theme. They are fun to mix up the prewriting activities. These are simple and easy to use prewriting worksheets.

These vary in line types and themes.

10. Planet Prewriting Printables

Planet Prewriting has 6 different planets for kids to trace lines with. The lines start and stop inside the planet. This makes it is a fun space writing center for kids.

11. Car Prewriting Strips Printables

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.

12. Beach Prewriting Printables

Beach Prewriting has a mix of thin and thick lines for kids to trace with beach themed items.

13. School Prewriting Printables

School Prewriting Printables has a fun pencil prewriting theme for kids to use with several pages with thin prewriting lines.

14. Pumpkin Prewriting Printables

Pumpkin Prewriting Printables has a collection of pumpkins with lines you can trace between. You will find thick and thin lines in this printable.

15. Spider Prewriting Tracing Strips Printables

Spider Prewriting Tracing Strips that are great for a bug theme or a Halloween theme. You will find thin lines in the prewriting printable.

16. Turkey Prewriting Tracing Strips Printables

Turkey Prewriting Tracing Strips have fun thick prewriting lines for kids to trace.

17. Thanksgiving Prewriting Printables

Thanksgiving Prewriting Printables has thick and thin lines to trace with loads of Thanksgiving themes that kids will love.

18. Elf Prewriting Printables

Elf Prewriting Printables are great thick and thin line prewriting with elves. You can trace the line between the elves.

19. Christmas Tree Prewriting Printables

Christmas Tree Prewriting has great prewriting lines in a Christmas Tree! It is fun to change these up!

20. Nativity Prewriting Printables

Nativity Prewriting Printable has prewriting from one nativity picture to another Nativity picture. You have two styles of lines in the set.

21. St. Patrick’s Day Roll & Trace Prewriting Printables

St. Patrick’s Day Roll & Trace Prewriting has two pages with a roll and trace activity. It is loads of fun to do. Plus I show you a few ways how to use the pages.

22. Spring Prewriting Prewriting Printables

Spring Prewriting Printable has both thick and thin lines to trace with loads of fun spring themes.

23. Easter Egg Prewriting Printables

Easter Egg Prewriting has prewriting in an Easter egg. It is a fun way to change up prewriting. And tracing in these eggs is super fun for kids.

24. Easter Prewriting Pattern Strip

Easter Prewriting Pattern Strip Printables has repeated pattern for kids to trace. There are four patterns in the Easter prewriting printable strips. Y

25. Frog Prewriting Strips Printables

Frog Prewriting Strips has 8 prewriting strips with different patterns for kids to trace with same pattern and then same pattern in different sizes. A great prewriting printable for kids.

26. Ladybug Prewriting Strip Printables

Ladybug Prewriting Strip Printables has thick prewriting lines for kids to trace. You have 10 prewriting strips for kids to use.

27. Bee Dot Marker Prewriting Printables

Bee Dot Marker Prewriting Printable has fun bee themed strips with dot markers for the prewriting lines.

28. Fireworks Prewriting Strips Printables

Fireworks Prewriting Printable is 8 prewriting strips for kids to work on tracing the rocket to the firework.

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Prewriting in Activity Packs

These pre-writing printables come in packs and have great themed prewriting activities. They have three types of prewriting in them. You have the themed image with thick and thin lines inside the image, prewriting no-prep pages and prewriting easy reader book! There is 31 pages of prewriting activities in each of the packs.

Each theme gives a fun way for kids to work on prewriting during different seasons and themes.

29. Easter Activities Pack: Prewriting Printables

Easter Activities Pack: Prewriting has prewriting in easter eggs and getting the easter bunny to the basket.

30. Spring Activities Pack: Prewriting Printables

Spring Activities Pack: Prewriting has prewriting in kites with tracing kite strings.

31. Winter Activities Pack: Prewriting Printables

Winter Activities Pack: Prewriting has some fun prewriting lines in mittens. Plus the tracing the strips between the mitten pages are really fun.

32. Penguin Activities Pack: Prewriting Printables

Penguin Activities Pack for Prewriting has cute penguins shape prewriting with penguins waddling lines for tracing.

33. Hanukkah Activity Pack: Prewriting Printables

Hanukkah Activity Pack has prewriting lines with a dreidel theme. A fun themes for the holiday. You can trace lines in the dreidel and from the dreidel to dreidel.

34. Valentine Activities Pack: Prewriting Printables

Valentine Activities Pack: Prewriting has a great heart theme for the prewriting and you are get the Valentines to the mail box prewriting lines.

35. St Patrick’s Day Prewriting Printables

St Patrick’s Day Prewriting has clovers with lines in it to trace and prewriting with getting the leperchaun to the pot of gold.

36. Space Activities Pack: Prewriting Printables

Space Activities Pack: Prewriting has some fun planet shape tracing plus getting the rocket ship to the planet is also loads of fun.

37. Summer Activities Pack: Prewriting Printables

Summer Activities Pack: Prewriting has prewriting in water splashes and getting kids to the sprinklers.

38. Beach Activity Pack: Prewriting Printables

Beach Activity Pack: Prewriting has fun shells and pails for prewriting. You can have a blast getting the shell to the pail.

39. Shark Activity Pack: Prewriting Printables

Shark Activity Pack: Prewriting is a great way to work on prewriting in sharks. You have prewriting in a shark and getting a shark to the fish.

40. Book Activity Pack: Prewriting Printables

Book Activity Pack: Prewriting is a nice way to work on prewriting with a school theme. You can do prewriting on books and getting kids to books.

41. Apple Activity Pack: Prewriting Printables

Apple Activity Pack: Prewriting has a fun fall prewriting with apples! You can prewriting in the apples and help kids get to the apple trees.

42. Football Activity Pack: Prewriting Printables

Football Activity Pack: Prewriting is great pack with football themes. You can prewrite in helmets and getting players to the goal.

43. Leaf Activity Pack: Prewriting Printables

Leaf Activity Pack: Prewriting has fun leaves to do prewriting in and kids raking leaves.

44. Pumpkin Activity Pack: Prewriting Printables

Pumpkin Activity Pack: Prewriting has fun pumpkin prewriting. Youc an get the kids to the pumpkin patch or trace inside the pumpkins.

45. Turkey Activity Pack: Prewriting Printables

Turkey Activity Pack: Prewriting has prewriting in a turkey and getting the turkey to a fun disguise. It is a fun Thanksgiving prewriting theme.

46. Gingerbread Activity Pack: Prewriting Printables

Gingerbread Activity Pack: Prewriting has prewriting in a ginergread outline to make prewriting fun.

47. Animals in Winter Activity pack: Prewriting Printables

Animals in Winter Activity Pack: Prewriting has animal footprints for kids to trace their lines.

48. Groundhog Activity Pack: Prewriting Printables

Groundhog Activity Pack: Prewriting has groundhogs themes with prewriting in groundhog shadows and getting the groundhog to his hole.

49. Football Activity Pack: Prewriting Printables

Football Activity Pack: Prewriting has the football player getting the ball to the field goal post.

50. Frog Activity Pack: Prewriting Printables

Frog Activity Pack: Prewriting has frogs, lily pads, and frog prewriting pages. You can get the frogs to the pond.

51. Flower Activity Pack: Prewriting Printables

Flower Activity Pack: Prewriting has flower and kids watering flower in this pack. Plus the flower tracing pages are super cute!

52. Transportation Activity Pack: Prewriting Printables

Transportation Activity Pack: Prewriting has fun cars and prewriting lines. Plus great tracing worksheets with traffic signs.

53. Pirate Activity Pack: Prewriting Printables

Pirate Activity Pack: Prewriting has fun pirates with treasure maps, treasure chests, and coins for counting. The treasure map prewriting pages are great!

54. Bat & Moon Activity Pack: Prewriting Printables

Bat & Moon Activity Pack: Prewriting has a fun bat and moon themed with great prewriting moons with bats!

55. Party Activity Pack: Prewriting Printables

Party Activity Pack: Prewriting has a fun balloon with prewriting in the balloons.

56. Dinosaur Activity Pack: Prewriting Printables

Dinosaur Activity Pack: Prewriting has dinosaur prewriting printables. It has tracing lines with footprints and and tracing prewriting lines inside dinosaur tracks.

57. Ocean Activity Pack: Prewriting Printables

Ocean Activity Pack: Prewriting has ocean fish prewriting printables. It has tracing lines with fish and and tracing prewriting lines inside fish.

58. Snowman Activity Pack: Prewriting Printables

Snowman Activity Pack: Prewriting has prewriting inside a snowman for kids. A great way to work in fine motor skills.

59. Firework Activity Pack: Prewriting Printables

Firework Activity Pack has a great firework themes for prewriting with fireworks and tracing the rocket to the firework.

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