Looking for some easy to use Tracing Letter a Worksheets letters a to z formation guide and acitvities? These printables and ideas will work to support fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination in kids between the ages of 2-5. Why is it so important to develop these skills? We need kids to build their fine motor and pencil grasp skills right from the beginning, without building and training these muscles, children may struggle in:
- handwriting development
- lack of concentration
- incorrect pencil grip formaiton
- lack of proper fine motor skills
What better way to develop fine motor skills than by using some basic Tracing Letter a Worksheets printables to help them learn the letters in their name AND pencil grip.
This list below includes ideas you can use with 2 year olds as well as 4 to 5 year olds.
- Use a printable busy book with varied activity pages. The kids will love the variety and stimuli of materials and activities on each page. I’ve created many themed printable busy books, such as these dinosaur themed activity printables and I use them regularly throughout the year, even with intervention students and students need special ed intervention.
- Grab some magnetic letters and use some simple name spelling games to get the kids using their imagination to learn their name spelling before tracing. There are some pretty fantastic ideas from the Kindergarten Connection here on name and letter formation and spelling.
- Name letter tracing within a sensory tub. Check out this super cute way the Imagination Tree set up this super fun sensory writing tub!
Tracing Letter a Worksheets a to z
4. Use an editable name tracing mat to practice name writing and even some arts and crafts to create their own name writing / dot pages. Grab a free printable right from the editable name writing printable blog post here or from the link on the image below.
Use fun letter tracing cards like these winter themed ones that kids would love! Add them to a sensory tub and have the kids trace with dry erase markers.
5. Need to work a little bit more on tracing letters? Grab this free letter tracing printable and learn how to open and edit editable PDFs right from this blog post. This trick is an invaluable trick!
You could also pick up some super fun qtip painting activity mats right from my store here.
I hope these ideas were super helpful to you! In the end, any idea or activity you try is one step to further your child’s writing, fine motor and pencil grip skills so do not fret if these do not work right away! Keep trying and modify the activities as you go.
