Winter Preschool Prewriting Printables
Pre-writing skills are a key part of any preschool curriculum, and these preschool winter printables are a must-have for your seasonal activities. They’re perfect for adding to your preschool theme ideas for winter!
Your preschoolers will have so much fun helping the adorable snowman collect snowballs while building essential foundational skills. These versatile printables can be tailored to suit the developmental needs of your toddlers and preschoolers. Read on to discover how to incorporate these pre-writing mats into your winter lesson plans!
Looking for fun and educational ways to incorporate winter into your classroom? These preschool winter printables are a fantastic addition to your seasonal activities!
Perfect for supporting pre-writing skills, these printables align beautifully with your preschool theme ideas and help little learners build essential fine motor and early literacy skills.
Writing development varies widely among preschoolers, making pre-writing activities essential for building foundational skills. This printable offers versatile practice, just see all the ways to use these for prewriting support in preschool.
Add these pre-writing tracing mats to your Ice and Snow Preschool Lesson Plans.
Preschool Writing Sheets
The free printable pre-writing sheets include a variety of shapes and patterns. The writing sheets were made intentionally to help ready toddlers and preschoolers for eventually writing letters.
A major prewriting skill is the ability to form the basic pencil strokes that make up all letters and numbers. They are as follows: |, —, O, +, /, square, , X, and Δ. Focusing on building blocks outside the traditional letter and number tracing will help accomplish this.
These winter pre-writing mats introduce the basic strokes of handwriting and shapes in a developmentally appropriate way.
Winter Activities for Preschoolers Prewriting Printable
You can use these preschool prewriting printables in various ways, including with manipulatives for tracing, just your finger, or go completely traditional and use a pencil!
These are all good options and depending on the skill level of your preschoolers, you may try them all in your classroom.
What’s Included
The FREE printable includes SIX different pages of winter pre-writing practice. The pages have a variety of lines, shapes, and patterns to meet a variety of needs.
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Additional Materials
- Small wintery manipulatives (We used floral pebbles)
- Dry erase markers (optional)
- plastic dry-erase pockets (optional)
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The Set-Up
Just print and laminate. Or put the sheets in a dry-erase pockets instead of laminating. I prefer that because the dry-erase marker comes off so much easier in a dry erase pocket.
Set the winter pre-writing mats in your preschooler’s workspace with a bowl of wintery manipulatives on the side. You want something that looks like a snowball. You can use white Pom poms, floral pebbles, or acrylic snowflakes even!
Invite your preschooler to join you for some winter-themed writing practice!
Pre-Writing Worksheets
This pre-writing printable has a few different ways to use. They vary somewhat in difficulty, so you can choose the method that is the best for your preschoolers or kindergarteners. No matter how you use them, they will benefit the building of fine motor skills and other essential pre-writing skills.
Use Pre-Writing Practice Mats for Finger Tracing
This is the method you will use for your youngest preschoolers and even your toddlers. Simply invite your preschooler or toddler to use his finger to trace the lines on the mat.
When reading books to toddlers or your youngest preschoolers, you’ve probably noticed how they already trace things they see in the books. This finger tracing method is the first step in pre-writing skills development, and it’s the same method we use in our insect theme prewriting mats.
Try them with our Winter Small Pack for Preschoolers!
Use a Winter Manipulative to Trace Along the Lines of the Mat
This is the method I recommend for preschoolers who are still learning to use a pencil with a mature grasp but still need to work on control. Invite them to trace the lines using a small, winter-themed manipulative. We used floral pebbles, but white pom poms work well, too.
The purpose here is to move the snowballs along the dashed lines down to the snowman. Using a small manipulative requires preschoolers to use a developing pincer grasp, which is needed for a mature pencil grip.
Use the Pre-Writing Practice Mats with Traditional Writing Utensils
This is the method that is best for preschoolers who already have a mature pencil grasp. Invite them to practice tracing the lines using a variety of writing utensils.
You can use the traditional ones, like a pencil, marker, or crayons.
You can also place these mats in a dry-erase pocket, (which I prefer over just laminating) and use a dry erase marker or dry erase crayon to trace. Sometimes new materials can help get kids excited about writing.
More Winter Theme Prewriting Activities
Since kids typically love variety, I like to have a wide range of resources to use with my preschool themes. I rounded up some of my favorite winter-themed prewriting activities for you.
- Free Prewriting Practice – Christmas Themed
- 6 Snowy Printable Winter Activities for Preschoolers
- Winter Activities and Centers
- Snowy Day Alphabet Writing Tray
- Penguin Pre-Writing Tracing Cards
- Pre-Writing Winter Worksheets + Mats
- Mitten Alphabet Tracing Cards
Winter Themed Worksheets for Preschool
Winter can be such a magical time for preschoolers! I gathered up some of my favorite winter-themed worksheets to keep your kiddos learning when the temperatures are too frigid for outdoor play!
- Winter Mittens Line Tracing
- Math Winter Worksheets
- Printables for Winter in Preschool and Kindergarten
- Worksheets for a winter theme For Preschool
- Preschool Worksheets (Great for Kindergarten too!)
Grab Your Own Winter Writing Printable Mats
Think this is something that will be popular in your preschool writing center? If you have a separate fine motor center you can add it there, too.
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Children’s Books About Winter
Grab a few of these wintery books and you can practically feel the cold weather as soon as you open the book! Kids love the fun animal characters in many of these stories and no matter where you live, kids are always curious and interested in snowy weather.
- Tiger Tales (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 26 Pages – 09/05/2017 (Publication Date) – Tiger Tales (Publisher)
- Audible Audiobook
- James Dean (Author) – James Fouhey, Pete the Cat L.L.C. (Narrators)
- English (Publication Language)
- Henrietta Bancroft (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 32 Pages – 12/01/1996 (Publication Date) – HarperCollins (Publisher)
- Smith, Sian (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 24 Pages – 07/31/2014 (Publication Date) – Heinemann (Publisher)
- ISBN13:9780439567039
- Format:Paperback Book
- Ages:4 – 8
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Ghigna, Charles (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- Wright, Maureen (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 34 Pages – 10/08/2013 (Publication Date) – Two Lions (Publisher)
- Shaw, Gina (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 32 Pages – 01/05/2016 (Publication Date) – Grosset & Dunlap (Publisher)
I’m Sarah, an educator turned stay-at-home-mama of five! I’m the owner and creator of Stay At Home Educator, a website about intentional teaching and purposeful learning in the early childhood years. I’ve taught a range of levels, from preschool to college and a little bit of everything in between. Right now my focus is teaching my children and running a preschool from my home. Credentials include: Bachelors in Art, Masters in Curriculum and Instruction.
My preschool students loved the Snowman Prewriting Mats. Do you have others you’ve created for other themes?
I don’t have others with the squiggly line, but I have shape tracing mats that are perfect for spring.
https://stayathomeeducator.com/insect-theme-prewriting-practice/
I also have these prewriting cards in 16 different themes.
https://stayathomeeducator.com/product/prewriting-cards-for-the-entire-year/
These are adorable. So many new options since my kids were little. These will be perfect for my nephew when he visits. Thanks for sharing