These printable alphabet tracing strips feature turkeys that are a great fit for your Thanksgiving preschool theme! Your child will be happily tracing away and learning their letters in just a few minutes with these easy to use printables.
Download these turkey letter tracing strips with with uppercase letters, lowercase letters, or both on the same strip and laminate them to use again and again.
Tracing letters is beneficial for early learners. Tracing helps introduce the shapes and forms of letters, develop fine motor skills, and build writing confidence.
The colorful turkeys are sure to catch your little learner’s eye and make practicing handwriting with these writing strips fun!
The dotted font on this set is slightly different from the font on font on the pumpkin alphabet tracing strips. By reader request, I found a dotted tracing font to use that has the M descending all the way to the base line. (The uppercase M on the pumpkin version only goes to the midline.)
There are many different ways to teach your child the alphabet and to read and write.
Some educators and parents believe in teaching children uppercase letters first. They argue that uppercase letters are easier to tell apart and are less likely to be reversed than lowercase letters.
Other educators believe in teaching lowercase letters first since most letters are used in their lowercase forms. Advocates of lowercase letters first also believe that lowercase letters are easier to form because they involve fewer strokes.
And, of course, there are also people that believe in teaching children how to write uppercase and lowercase letters simultaneously instead of separately. After all, you have to know both before you can actually read!
(And that’s without even getting into whether or not you should teach letter names or phonetic sounds first!)
That’s why you can take your pick of methods when you use these Thanksgiving alphabet tracing strips. There are uppercase only, lowercase only, and upper/lowercase letters presented together.
How to use alphabet tracing strips
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The easy, no-prep way to use these letter tracing pages is simply printing them and having your child trace the letters with a crayon, pencil, or marker.
Markers are easier to use and glide across the page. Crayons provide more of a fine motor and finger strength challenge because they provide greater friction.
For repeated use, print the strips, laminate, cut into strips, and use again and again with fine tip dry erase markers. Have your child erase their own work for extra fine motor practice!
Hole punch each card in the upper left corner and thread them onto a binder ring for a fun go bag activity (that’s easy to sanitize after a wait at the doctor’s office).
Binder rings are an easy way to keep any set of laminated printables together. You can even use them with things like these alphabet tracing worksheets and alphabet play dough mats.
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If your child has trouble with tracing their letters, have them practice their fine motor tracing skills with these printable fall fine motor tracing worksheets.
If they need more practice tracing letters, be sure to check out this mega bundle of homeschool preschool worksheets including alphabet coloring & tracing pages. (Plus tons of fine motor tracing practice sheets in budget-saving black & white.)
Printable turkey letter tracing strips
First, the boring but important stuff. Like all preschool printables on The Artisan Life, these are for personal and single classroom use. You are also welcome to use them with therapy clients.
You are not licensed to alter, sell, or redistribute the files to others for their personal use. Instead, please refer your friends and colleagues to this page so they can download their own copies.
*** In light of current events, you may share the file with distance learning students and therapy clients, but I still prefer that you send parents to this page to download their own copies if at all possible. ***
The set of lowercase turkey letter tracing strips is available completely free of charge, no email address required. (Just keep scrolling down a bit more!)
The uppercase, lowercase, and upper + lowercase (Aa format) tracing strips are available in one convenient PDF for the very low price of $1.79
Free turkey letter tracing printable
I fall into camp “teach lowercase letters first.” That’s why I’m providing the lowercase turkey letter tracing strips to you absolutely free of charge. No email opt-in is required, just download the PDF by following the link below the preview image.
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Download lowercase turkey alphabet tracing strips here
Make sure to keep scrolling for more low-prep (and no-prep) free printable activities for your family! And remember to grab your free printable school readiness checklist:
Thanksgiving Preschool & Toddler Printables
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These turkey alphabet tracing strips can be laminated and used over and over again.
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Natasha Núñez is a former classroom teacher with a Masters of the Arts in Teaching. She also is a registered yoga teacher & holds a certificate in natural skincare formulation from the School of Natural Skincare. She shares her passion for education, positive parenting, free printables, and recipes for DIY bath & home products. Learn more about Natasha and where she’s been featured.
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