These adorable gingerbread tracing worksheets mats are great for winter and Christmas kids’ activities. It’s also a great prewriting activity for preschool and kindergarten kids, which helps strengthen their fingers and improves their visual perception. Plus, they are just plain cute! Who knew prewriting worksheets could be so adorable?
We believe that education and learning are most effective when they spark joy and enthusiasm in young minds. Our gingerbread-themed prewriting strips do just that by infusing an element of excitement into the learning process. The festive theme instantly captures the attention of children, making them eager to participate in the prewriting activities amidst the holiday season. This joy of learning sets a positive tone for the classroom, creating an environment where education is not just a task but a delightful journey.
Benefits of Pre-writing strips
Using gingerbread-themed prewriting strips for kids can offer various benefits, as it combines a fun and festive theme with the development of valuable prewriting skills. Teachers can use gingerbread-themed prewriting strips for several reasons, as the activity offers a range of educational and developmental benefits.
Fine Motor Skills Development: Prewriting strips often involve activities that help develop fine motor skills. Drawing lines, curves, and shapes on the gingerbread-themed strips can contribute to the improvement of hand-eye coordination and fine motor control.
Prewriting Skill Practice: Prewriting strips typically focus on essential skills such as tracing lines, shapes, and patterns. These activities lay the foundation for writing by helping children practice the basic movements required for forming letters and numbers.
Preparation for Writing: Engaging in prewriting activities with gingerbread-themed strips serves as a stepping stone for more complex writing tasks. It allows children to build confidence and familiarity with the motor skills required for writing.
Gingerbread Tracing Worksheets
We love doing themed printable activities and especially love when minimal materials are required. For this activity, you really don’t need much.
Pro Tip: If you want to use the worksheets once, just print them out and hand your child a pencil. If you want to re-use these prewriting worksheets for preschoolers, then there are so many fun options that you could try, such as laminating the prewriting worksheets!
My daughter absolutely loved working with our gingerbread clip cards and gingerbread house coloring pages. This was such a wonderful extension of those activities.
Materials Required:
- Dry Erase Pockets (Trust me, you need to have these at home. It allows you to reuse worksheets over and over again.)
- Dry Erase Markers
- You could also laminate the pages instead (as you will see below)
- Binger Rings (optional if you will be using them as strips. These are helpful)
There are two different options to use this resource.
Option 1: Reuse these worksheets by placing them in a dry-erase pocket.
My 3-year-old daughter loved engaging in this activity using a dry-erase pocket. It’s reusable and suitable for younger kids.
Option 2: Cut them out as strips, laminate, and whole punch them.
You can also add a binder ring like the one below.
(Please note that the activity shown below is part of my Gingerbread Pre-writing Pack.)
Where to get this printable
GET THE GINGERBREAD PRE-WRITING WORKSHEETS SAMPLE HERE
Gingerbread Pre-writing Pack
This Gingerbread Pre-writing pack is loved by tons of teachers because the activities are easy to prepare, include all prewriting strokes, and ideal to send home during the holiday. It’s also loved by kids who find the themed activities engaging and fun for writing practice! Each of the following tracing strips is included in three formats to suit your individual printing needs – full color, minimal color, and black and white:
- Alphabet tracing strips
One set each for uppercase and lowercase letters. - Number tracing strips
Numbers 0 to 9 included. - Line tracing strips
An engaging set of lines including straight, wavy, loopy, and various combinations. - Shape tracing strips
Including triangles, ovals, hearts, rectangles, circles, squares, stars, diamonds, crescents, pentagons, heptagons and trapezoids.
WHERE TO GET THE FULL ACTIVITY
GET THE GINGERBREAD PRE-WRITING STRIPS HERE
CHECK OUT THESE GREAT WINTER THEMED ADD ONS:
- Gingerbread Clip Cards
- Decorate a Gingerbread Man Art Activity
- Winter Clip Cards – These clip cards would be great for Preschoolers, PreK and Kindergarteners.
- Paper Plate Gingerbread Man Craft
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