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    Free Printable Hummingbird Prewriting Practice Cards

    Published: Jun 4, 2022 · Modified: Mar 6, 2025

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    Your little learner will love practicing their fine motor skills with these free printable hummingbird themed prewriting cards. Use them as a print and play no-prep activity or laminate them for repeated use! They're perfect for spring and summer study units as well as learning about pollinators and ecology.

    A preview of three pages of prewriting practice shapes with a hummingbird theme. Each page has four cards to cut apart with a specific prewriting practice shape for preschoolers to trace.

    These prewriting practice tracing pages will help your child develop their fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination. They feature a specific set of prewriting shapes that help your child practice stokes that are used in letter formation. They also help reinforce left to right as your child traces from the starting arrow on the left across the page to the right.

    This post may include affiliate links which means I may earn a commission on qualifying purchases at no additional cost to you.

    These pollinator themed prewriting practice cards are a fun, easy way to help your child practice prewriting skills. They're perfect for homeschool preschool parents, classroom literacy centers and fine motor centers, and therapists.

    It's easy to make these prewriting practice cards reusable by laminating the pages or placing them in page protectors for use with a dry erase marker or wax crayon. We frequently use secure page protectors with a flap to keep the page inside. Look in the "how to use prewriting practice cards" section below for more information about ways to use the pages.

    What are prewriting skills?

    Prewriting skills are all skills that must be learned before your child can write fluently.

    Prewriting skills help your child hold and use a pencil correctly and comfortably, but they also include drawing, coloring, and copying the specific prewriting shapes. These prewriting shapes teach the basic building blocks of letters.

    Prewriting skills include both:

    • Fine motor and manual dexterity skills and...
    • Specific letter formation shapes: | — O + / \ X Δ and a square. (source)

    These printable prewriting cards help your child practice the specific letter formation shapes needed to write letters confidently and accurately.

    Your child won't know how to hold a pencil correctly at first, no matter how many times you demonstrate. This is okay and totally normal. It takes years for correct pencil grasp to develop. Just keep modeling the correct grasp and providing plenty of opportunities to practice.

    You can also try using a pencil, instead of a marker, as mentioned above. Markers write similarly no matter the angle or pressure used. Pens and pencils need more control and finesse. We use preschooler-friendly pencils that are more manageable for little hands.

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    Instead of throwing the page out after your child traces it once with a pen or pencil, allow them to trace multiple times with their finger, a pencil, or pen. My daughter will happily trace the same line many times.

    Each card has an arrow in the bottom left corner pointing the correct way to trace. Encourage left to right tracing to build your child's writing and reading skills.

    A preview of a page of hummingbird themed prewriting practice shapes for preschoolers to trace.

    How to print and use prewriting cards

    This set has three pages with four tracing paths each. Each "path" is comprised of a row of a specific prewriting shape. The cards feature cute hummingbird themed clip art with birds, flowers, and a hummingbird feeder.

    Materials needed:

    • Free prewriting card printables. Download information is located lower in the post. Look for the row of purple arrows.
    • Paper and a printer.
      • I recommend 32 lb bright white paper. It's brighter for better looking clipart and thicker for more durable prewriting cards.
    • Laminator, dry erase pockets, or page protectors. Optional.
      • Instead of dry erase pockets, I use heavy duty “secure” page protectors. They're cheaper and easy to organize in a 3 ring binder.
    • Scissors or paper cutter, if you want to make tracing strips.
      • A guillotine cutter is better for cutting laminated pages, but I usually use my paper trimmer because it's safer for little helpers.
    • Binder rings, optional for an easy go-bag activity or keeping your classroom centers organized.
    • Crayons, pencils, markers, etc. for tracing
      • Pencils and crayons are great for single use pages. We like Honeyscticks beeswax crayons because the colors are easy to see and they’re pure beeswax with food grade colorants.
      • Instead of a dry erase marker, try Stabilo Woody wax crayons. They're a wax crayon that can work as a dry erase, too! They come off easily when wiped with a lightly damp cloth or paper towel.
      • A preschool pencil is easier for little hands to hold than an adult pencil.
      • Your child can also just use their finger for tracing.
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    How to use prewriting cards

    Get your download from lower down in the post. Look for the row of purple arrows pointing the way.

    Print the pages you want to use. The shapes build in difficulty. The first page is the easiest, the third page is the most challenging. (I'm sorry the photo below is so dark/poor quality.

    Laminate the pages, if you're laminating. Cut after laminating to save yourself time. (If you cut first, you have to cut everything out again after laminating.) I did not laminate this time, by my daughter's request so she could use her pencils.

    Cut the cards apart using a paper trimmer or paper cutter. The pages shown below are from this set of Christmas prewriting practice cards.

    A sheet with four prewriting practice cards being cut apart on a paper trimmer.

    Show your child how to use the cards. You can start by tracing from left to right with your index finger, or you can go straight to using a marker/crayon.

    Try (if you can - it's a challenge!) to simply show how to trace the shapes without describing what you're doing. In the Montessori philosophy, the adult demonstrates silently instead of narrating the process. This allows your child to focus on what you're doing instead of trying to process your words and actions at the same time.

    You can also make play dough "snakes" and use them to form the tracing shapes. Get a recipe for homemade play dough that stays soft in this post with alphabet play dough mats.

    Free printable pollinator theme tracing cards download area

    Like all free preschool printables on The Artisan Life, these are licensed for personal and single classroom use. You are welcome to use them with Scouts groups, home school co-ops, personal therapy clients, etc as long as you are personally organizing the activity and not charging specifically to participate.

    You are not licensed to redistribute the files or printouts to others for their personal use. You are not licensed to sell the printables or printed pages anywhere (online or in person) or extract the images. Instead, please send your friends and coworkers to this page so they can download their own copies.

    If you agree to these terms of use, you may click below:

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    I hope your little learner enjoys these tracing cards! Make sure to grab these educational free printables for summer while you're here on The Artisan Life:

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