$5 - $10 1st Grade Handwriting Activities

Pre-writing success! This tracing activity bundle is more than just fun, it's a supercharged learning booster for your pre-writing superstars! Students trace their way through left-to-right progression lines, letter formation, and fun-themed vocabulary words. There is fun artwork to color on each page and additional handwriting practice pages with word banks!

Learning Objectives

• Boosts pre-reading skills
• Develops hand-eye coordination
• Strengthens fine motor control
• Ignites a love of writing

Themes

Spring Hedgehogs

Spring Sheep

Spring Pencils

Spring Llamas

Resource Includes:

• A to Z tracing page uppercase and lowercase (1)
• Line tracing pages for pencil or finger tracing (3)
• Vocabulary word tracing (2)
• Trace and color vocabulary (3)
• Writing/drawing pages with a word bank (2)
• Writing/drawing pages (3)
• Color match coloring activity (1)

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Fine Motor Skills

• Strength and Coordination: Tracing requires controlled hand movements, building strength and coordination in the finger, hand, and wrist muscles. This improved control lays the groundwork for future writing and manipulation of tools.
• Pencil Grip: Tracing activities encourage students to hold a writing utensil correctly, developing a comfortable and efficient grip essential for future writing success.

Pre-Writing Skills

• Letter and Shape Recognition: Tracing introduces students to different shapes and letter formations, fostering familiarity and visual memory. This recognition is crucial for later independent writing and reading.
• Hand-Eye Coordination: Following visual cues to trace lines accurately improves hand-eye coordination, directly translating to writing fluency and letter formation.

Cognitive Development

• Concentration and Focus: Tracing requires focused attention to stay within the lines, enhancing concentration and maintaining focus on a task. These skills are vital for future academic success.
• Visual-Spatial Awareness: Tracing helps children understand spatial relationships between lines and shapes, developing visual-spatial awareness crucial for reading, writing, and problem-solving.

Emotional and Social Benefits

• Confidence and Self-Esteem: Completing tracing activities fosters a sense of accomplishment and boosts self-esteem, motivating students to continue learning and exploring.
• Creativity and Self-Expression: Tracing can be a playful and creative activity, allowing students to experiment with colors and patterns, fostering self-expression and a love for learning.

Word Tracing

• Letter Formation: Tracing words helps students solidify their understanding of letter shapes and proper letter formation, preparing them for independent writing.
• Vocabulary Development: Tracing familiar words reinforces their spelling and meaning while tracing new words introduces them to new vocabulary words in a fun and engaging way!

This tracing activity pack is a fun and engaging way to build skills and confidence for pre-writers!

Embark on a 12-month musical journey through time with the Classical Journey Bundle! ♬

Add a touch of mindful music to any season, holiday, or composer unit study. With over 150 categorized classical pieces, the Classical Journey Bundle offers an engaging printable for every occasion. Each month unlocks a curated selection of themed classical music pieces, perfectly paired with a holiday or season!

36 fine motor skills activity cards for improving hand strength, pencil grip and handwriting.

Within your classroom you can either have these out as occasional tasks or you can have a 'Funky Fingers' table set up permanently within the room with a new task set up either each day or each week.

Printable support resources included for fine motor skills activities:

• Gingerbread men to tweezer buttons onto
• Large numbers to place sequins on
• Hole punch activity
• Jellybean jars
• Geoboard number templates
• Gumball machines
• Muffin tray templates
• Tags for padlocks and keys
• Pompom ice creams
• Pompom pictures
• Numbers for threading

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Color Word Unit daily practice sheets to reinforce HFW/sight word colors. Perfect for a "Color of the Day" activity as you introduce color words to your young learners. A variety of skills included such as:

• Recognize the color word and circle
• Color the word
• Trace the word (D'Nealian font)
• Read the word in easy, decodable CVC words
• Draw a picture to represent the color word
• Trace a color word sentence

This activity is easy to pair with my Color Word Poems and Color Word Craft to round out your perfect intro to teaching color words to your kindergarten or first grade class.

Color Word Poems

Color Word Crafts

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This printable life cycle of sweet potato preschool curriculum is a fantastic tool for bringing hands-on science to your kids or students!

It’s designed to help you teach the full growth cycle of a sweet potato in an engaging way, making learning both fun and educational.

Here’s how it can benefit you and your students:

• Builds Knowledge of Plant Life Cycles: With visuals and interactive elements, this resource walks kids through each stage, from sprouting to harvesting. It’s perfect for explaining plant biology in simple terms that they can easily understand.
• Supports Science and Nature Studies: This is a ready-to-go addition to any science unit or homeschool curriculum, giving kids a chance to explore nature, plants, and where food comes from in a hands-on way.
• Promotes Curiosity and Observation: As kids track the life cycle stages, they’ll get curious about how plants grow and the importance of each step. It’s great for encouraging observation skills and sparking questions about the natural world.
• Easy-to-Use Format: With structured, clear activities, you’ll save time prepping lessons or activities, allowing you to focus on the fun parts of teaching!

This resource makes learning about sweet potatoes—and plants in general—an exciting journey for kids and a convenient, educational tool for you!

This bundle contains different healthy food activity worksheets, flashcards. Use these preschool printables to increase interaction with children in classroom or homeschool learning.

THIS IS A DIGITAL DOWNLOAD, NO PRINTED MATERIALS ARE INCLUDED!

Includes:

Life cycle with labels

Anatomy of a sweet potato with labels

Flash cards

Coloring pages

Tracing page

Number puzzle

Sweet potato fact sheet

Drawing Activity

What You'll Get:

1 file with 15 printable PDF pages (US letter size 8.5 x 11)

I recommend laminating some pages for multiple uses.

Important details:

This is a digital download. You will not receive anything in the mail.

Please use a computer to download and not your phone.

This file is for personal use only and may not be reproduced or sold commercially.

I don't accept returns, exchanges, or cancellations. But please contact me if you have any problems with your order.

Thank you! :)

- Jennifer

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"Learn to Trace Letters A to Z and Numbers 1-25: A Fun Practical Workbook for Kids Age 3-6" is an engaging and interactive workbook designed to help young children develop their letter and number tracing skills.

With ample space provided, kids are encouraged to practice writing letters and numbers independently, fostering confidence and fine motor skills.

Additionally, this workbook incorporates a delightful animal-themed counting activity, where children can count the adorable animals and write down the corresponding numbers.

Packed with fun and educational exercises, this workbook is the perfect companion for early learners on their journey to mastering letters and numbers.

Grab this bundle to get 20% off handwriting and tracing the alphabet letters and cardinal numbers. Please check out each product in the bundle for more info!

This bundle has everything your child or student needs to:

• Learn numbers 1-100 and counting
• Learn alphabet letters A to Z
• practice handwriting
• practice identification of letters and numbers
• have fun coloring

This bundle meets all your witchy needs of shape matching, counting to 20, or fine motor skills of tracing or cutting.

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The Worksheets contains 36 pages of tracing activities to help your kids master number/letter writing and fully comprehend the sequence of numbers/letters. With the worksheet’s structured exercises . Kids Will learn to write numbers from 0 to 9 and from A-Z with a step by step by copying the number & Letters .

WHAT YOU WILL RECEIVE

• 36 Pages (PDF)

• Large 8.5'' x 11'' designs that can easily be printed on regular sized paper

• High-resolution images

• Unlimited prints

• Great for kids, boys and girls

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Find 10 different resources for practicing CVC word work all focused on the AM word family. Practice reading fluency and writing while playing games, doing crafts and other activities.

Products included in this bundle:

• AM Family Flower -- This product includes one AM word family flower template. This flower craft is great for spring themed word family activity or center. It has six different petals with words and pictures to help introduce the AM family.
• AM Family Word and Sentence Matching Mats -- This packet contains two AM family matching mats where students will match the picture to the correct word or match the picture to the correct sentence. Each set has pictures available in color and in black and white.
• AM Family Word Wall Cards -- Two word wall cards available for each AM word. Each set contains a picture. One set has the word in all black and the other set as the rime in red.
• AM Family Sentence Matching -- Let the student sort the pictures to match the sentence. Sentences include sight words and color words. There are 9 sentences total.
• AM Family Dice Games -- Use these two dice game templates and recording sheet sets to practicing recognizing and spelling AM Word Family Words.
• AM Family Fluency Practice -- This packet contains a set of AM word family fluency strips to practice reading sentences with AM words. There is also a fluency passage and a reading passage.
• AM Family Fun Sheets -- This packet contains several no prep activities for more AM word family practice!
• AM Family Emergent Readers -- This packet contains two AM Family emergent readers.
• AM Family Foldable Books - There are 8 different foldable mini books to practice reading, writing, and identifying AM words
• AM Words Sorting - Sort words and pictures that are part of the AM family, as well as real and nonsense words.

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CVC Reading and Blending Cards

Make learning letters fun and engaging for your little one with Uppercase And Lowercase Letters Handwriting. This must-have workbook transforms boring letter drills into enjoyable alphabet adventures.

• Tracing and writing exercises for every upper and lowercase letter
• Develops pencil grip, fine motor skills, and letter recognition
• Perfect for preschool to first grade

Uppercase And Lowercase Letters Handwriting creates an adventure out of learning letters. Tracing and writing exercises help kids master letter recognition while improving pencil grip and fine motor skills. Vibrant illustrations next to each extra-large letter form reinforce connections between letters and familiar objects.

Parents love how this book engages young learners in building essential pre-reading skills.

Kids enjoy tracing and writing the alphabet while absorbing foundational skills that prepare them for reading success. Make learning letters fun with Uppercase And Lowercase Letters Handwriting!

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What's Included In This Bundle:

- Alphabet Play-doh Mats (Uppercase & lowercase Letters Aa-Zz)

- Number Play-doh Mats With Ten Frames

- Trace It, Color It, Write It Alphabet Book - Writing Center

- Alphabet Letter & Number Tracing Cards - Writing Center

- Matching Game ( Shapes - Letters - Numbers)

- Clothes Pin Clip Task Cards | Letter & Number Matching

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The Alphabet Play-doh Mats have both Uppercase and lowercase Letters. This activity is great for not only hands on learning through play but also to help your students practice forming each letter of the alphabet. Each play-doh mat also has a picture of an item that starts with that letter.

The Number Play-doh mats also have ten frames on them. This helps your students practice counting and one-to-one correspondence.

The Alphabet book is great for your literacy center and writing practice. Each page has both the Uppercase and lowercase letter on it. The students color, trace, and then practice writing each Uppercase and lowercase letter of the alphabet.

The Matching Game has Uppercase and lowercase letter matching practice as well as number and shape cards. The number cards have a matching card with the corresponding number of apple seeds on each one. This helps students practice counting and one-to-one correspondence.

The letter tracing cards are also another great way for your students to practice writing each Uppercase and lowercase letter as well as numbers 1-10.

The Clothes Pin Clip task cards are a great fall-themed learning activity. There are both pumpkin-themed letter cards as well as number cards.

Each letter task card has an Uppercase letter on the pumpkin as well as #3 different lowercase letters on the right side of the card to choose from. Your students will then clip a clothespin on the correct lowercase letter that matches the letter on the pumpkin. This is a great fine motor activity as well as a great way to practice matching Uppercase and lowercase letters together. Each number task card has a different amount of pumpkins from 1-10 on it. The students will count how many pumpkins are on each card and then attach a clothespin to the matching number on the right.

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Using this hands on, multisensory activity, students won’t even realize they are learning their letters! In this resource, they will learn letter formation by first building the letters, coloring the letters and pictures, tracing the letter, and writing the letter.

This is not only a fun and engaging way to learn letter formation, but students are working on foundational fine motor skills needed for writing. Students don’t have to use a pencil for writing, try broken crayons (broken crayons help promote tripod grasp pattern), q-tip painting, or fingerpaint. When writing letters for this activity, students use handwriting letter boxes to help with letter size, placement, and spacing. Perfect for pre-K and kindergarten centers, as well as OT groups, homeschool, and handwriting practice

This activity addresses:

Fine and visual motor skills

Fine motor strength and precision

Fine Motor Coordination

Hand strength

Visual Perception

Letter recognition

Letter formation

Included:

78 pages, three for each letter of the alphabet. This set focuses on UPPERCASE letters.

Each uppercase letter has 3 pages:

1. Circle Letter Page:

Build the letter using:

•Bingo Dauber

•Stamps

•Stickers

•Playdough

•Q-tip Painting

•Pipecleaners

•Wiki Stix

•Crumple tissue paper into balls and glue

•Placing pom poms with tongs

•Buttons/pennies

•Wherever your imagination takes you!!

2. Letter Search and Find and Coloring Page:

Color letter and corresponding picture using

•Broken crayons (to promote tripod grasp)

•Finger paint

•Q-tip Painting

•Wherever your imagination takes you!!

Search and find letter using

•Broken crayons (to promote tripod grasp)

•Finger paint

•Q-tip Painting

•Bingo dauber

•Stamp

•Stickers

Placing small pom poms using tongs

3. Trace and Write Page

•Color picture

•Have student first trace over letter with finger. Make sure formation is correct.

•Trace

•Copy letter in letter box

•Write letter on line

Fantastic Bulletin Board for Hallway or Classroom!

Students will be able to showcase their number writing skills of the numbers 0-30 with this fun and engaging bulletin board display activity. This can also be used as an assessment of handwriting the numbers 0-30.

This is a math writing numbers activity and is super cute and fun. It is aligned to the Kindergarten Common Core standard K.CC.A.3. This activity can be used as a bulletin board as seen here in the pictures, just for fun, or for display in the classroom. The students loved doing this in my classroom! Everything is included here for making the gumball machines. The girl and boy bubble gum clip art used for feedback in the picture are NOT included but can be purchased from this link:

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This comprehensive collection of worksheets is designed to help young learners develop the essential skills needed for handwriting through engaging and fun activities.

What's Included:

• 10 tracing lines Worksheets
• 16 Shape Tracing Worksheets
• 9 Prewriting Lines Worksheets
• Bonus Activities for Extra Practice ( tracing animals and coloring )

Why Choose Our Worksheets:

Our "tracing lines , Prewriting Lines and Shapes Tracing Worksheets" are carefully crafted by experienced educators to ensure that each activity is both educational and enjoyable. By providing consistent practice, these worksheets will help your students gain the confidence and skills they need to succeed in their writing journey.

Download now and give your students a head start in developing their writing abilities with our engaging and effective prewriting lines and shapes tracing worksheets!

Handwriting improves a student's ability to recall information, make connections between different concepts, and synthesize information in new ways!

My handwriting book includes:

• Mnemonic keywords and pictures (this will help with memory of letter name and sound as they practice the writing of the letter)
• Letter formation sayings and pictures for where to start and end your letters
• Sentence Practice
• Binding edge so that you can place it in folders with sheet protectors to use with dry erase markers, staple or coil bind together to use fun pens, glitter crayons, colored pencils, markers, etc!

When a student can produce the letters correctly and quickly, they will use less brain power when writing words and sentences!

This Worksheets Contains A lot of Activities That Can Make Kids Happy Like Mazes, Sudoku, Alphabet Tracing & Letter, Number tracing 1-20, Prewriting lines & shapes, Coloring Pages .

this worksheets is perfect for road trips or anytime you need some peace and quiet without resorting to turning on the TV.

What You will Get

• 190 PAGES Printable activities For Kids
• PDF + PNG Format
• HIGH QUALITY

NOTE

• This is a digital item.

• No physical product or printed material will be shipped.

• No refunds as this is a digital product.

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Monthly Themed Handwriting Practice: Fun Activities for Every Month!

Enhance your students' handwriting skills with this "Monthly Themed Handwriting Practice" resource! Each month features engaging activities and prompts tailored to seasonal themes, holidays, and events, making writing practice enjoyable and relevant. From winter wonders to spring blooms, students will have fun improving their penmanship while exploring different topics. Perfect for classroom use or at-home learning, this resource encourages creativity and consistency in handwriting development!

The themes include 3 different pages for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, Valentine's Day, Fourth of July, Halloween, St. Patrick's Day, Earth Day, New Year, Summer, Spring, Winter, and Fall.

This is a Handwriting Practice Bundle (levels 1- 5). This practice will help enhance the alphabet learning process in a fun and engaging manner. You will received 5 handwriting packets. 130 Pages total.

Individual packets

Handwriting Practice Level 1

Handwriting Practice Level 2

Handwriting Practice Level 3

Handwriting Practice Level 4

Handwriting Practice Level 5

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Do you need fun & engaging handwriting activities? These tracing and handwriting practice sheets feature composers and jazz musicians! Each page features capital and lowercase practice for each letter, with a composer/performer to color. Blank pages (with pictures) are also included for additional practice or story writing.

Product Includes:

• 26 trace & write letter pages (with a composer/musician)
• 26 blank writing pages (with a composer/musician)

Letter Pages:

1. A - Leroy Anderson
2. B - Ludwig Van Beethoven
3. C - Frédéric Chopin
4. D - Claude Debussy
5. E - Edward Elgar
6. F - Franz Liszt
7. G - George Gershwin
8. H - George Handel
9. I - Igor Stravinsky
10. J - Scott Joplin
11. K - Nat King Cole
12. L - Louis Armstrong
13. M - Wolfgang Mozart
14. N - Nina Simone
15. O - Carl Orff
16. P - Sergei Prokofiev
17. Q - Roger Quilter
18. R - Gioachino Rossini
19. S - Clara Schumann
20. T - Pyotr Tchaikovsky
21. U - Marco Uccellini
22. V - Antonio Vivaldi
23. W - Dinah Washington
24. X - Xian Xinghai
25. Y - Kosaku Yamada
26. Z - Zoltan Kodaly

This printable life cycle of sweet potato preschool curriculum is a fantastic tool for bringing hands-on science to your kids or students!

It’s designed to help you teach the full growth cycle of a sweet potato in an engaging way, making learning both fun and educational.

Here’s how it can benefit you and your students:

• Builds Knowledge of Plant Life Cycles: With visuals and interactive elements, this resource walks kids through each stage, from sprouting to harvesting. It’s perfect for explaining plant biology in simple terms that they can easily understand.
• Supports Science and Nature Studies: This is a ready-to-go addition to any science unit or homeschool curriculum, giving kids a chance to explore nature, plants, and where food comes from in a hands-on way.
• Promotes Curiosity and Observation: As kids track the life cycle stages, they’ll get curious about how plants grow and the importance of each step. It’s great for encouraging observation skills and sparking questions about the natural world.
• Easy-to-Use Format: With structured, clear activities, you’ll save time prepping lessons or activities, allowing you to focus on the fun parts of teaching!

This resource makes learning about sweet potatoes—and plants in general—an exciting journey for kids and a convenient, educational tool for you!

This bundle contains different healthy food activity worksheets, flashcards. Use these preschool printables to increase interaction with children in classroom or homeschool learning.

THIS IS A DIGITAL DOWNLOAD, NO PRINTED MATERIALS ARE INCLUDED!

Includes:

Life cycle with labels

Anatomy of a sweet potato with labels

Flash cards

Coloring pages

Tracing page

Number puzzle

Sweet potato fact sheet

Drawing Activity

What You'll Get:

1 file with 15 printable PDF pages (US letter size 8.5 x 11)

I recommend laminating some pages for multiple uses.

Important details:

This is a digital download. You will not receive anything in the mail.

Please use a computer to download and not your phone.

This file is for personal use only and may not be reproduced or sold commercially.

I don't accept returns, exchanges, or cancellations. But please contact me if you have any problems with your order.

Thank you! :)

- Jennifer

Copyright  © 2024 ArnoldWellnessDesign