Writing Warm-Ups: Totally Fun Pre-writing Activity Sheets

If your child’s writing is messy and they struggle to make the letters look like they should (often seen with diagonal lines) or they struggle to write with confidence, then offer some totally fun pre-writing activity sheets.

Writing Warm-Ups: Totally Fun Pre-Writing Activity Sheets move beyond tracing and copying shapes and adds silly strokes and lines that are used to make letters and numbers. This activity also builds the language cues kids need when learning to write. An example for a straight line would be touch your pencil to the paper and pull across the page, like driving a truck down the street. Having these strategies is how kids learn and hold the skill in their memory for future writing.

Ages: 4 and up

27 fun and silly pages that make learning the strokes for writing silly and easy. Comes in a black and white and colored printable. Instructions are included on each page.

Grab this activity if you want your child to build…

• Fine Motor skills: knowing how to write in a given space and how to form numbers and improves legibility and precision
• Eye-hand coordination: this is knowing where to place the pencil and visually guide your hand to write
• Gross Motor skill: Writing requires good trunk control and the ability to sit upright for a period of time
• Sensory Motor skills: this is knowing how much to bear down on the pencil
• Visual Motor skills: understanding the cues on the page that guide on start and stop places as well as recalling the “how to” of number formation

This is a digital download that can be printed and used as many times as needed. This activity will help your fine motor, visual motor, gross motor, sensory motor, and eye hand coordination skills. Handwriting requires a lot of systems to be online and is the core skill needed for school. Studies show something like 78% of the school day is spent writing.