Set your preschooler up for writing success with these winter themed trace in the path fine motor pre-writing practice pages! Use them as a print and play no-prep activity or laminate them for repeated use.
These prewriting practice tracing pages will help your child develop their fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination as they trace along the path with a finger or draw between the lines with a marker or crayon.
If these pages are a breeze for your preschooler, or if you have a kindergartner, too, be sure to snag these free printable trace and color pages while you’re here.
It’s easy to use these prewriting printables as a no-prep activity when you just print them out and let your child trace away
You can also make the activity reusable by laminating the pages or sliding them in page protectors for use with a dry erase marker. It’s also easy to cut the laminated pages into strips that you slip onto a binder ring for a go-bag activity that easy to wipe down after a car ride or trip to the doctor’s office.
In the image below, you can see my daughter using her car tracing pages cut into strips to see what I mean:
How to print and use trace in the path prewriting pages
This set has four different pages with four tracing paths each. There is a mix of straight, wavy, and zig-zag paths to trace inside. Some of the paths are easy, but some of them are more challenging. It’s completely okay if your child can’t do every single one on the first try.
As mentioned above, these trace in the path pages are perfect for toddlers and young preschoolers. Your child can even use a finger to trace the lines if they aren’t ready for a pencil or crayon yet!
Materials needed:
- Free winter trace in the path printables. Download information is located lower in the post. Look for the big blue image that reads “click here to download.”
- Paper and a printer.
- I recommend 32 lb bright white paper for crisp, beautiful images, especially if you’re going to make the pages reusable. This paper is also heavier and stands up better to enthusiastic learning. To see the difference this paper makes, stop by this post on the best paper for printables.
- Laminator, dry erase pockets, or page protectors. Optional.
- I love my inexpensive home laminator because it saves me the time and hassle of going to a copy center.
- Instead of dry erase pockets, I usually use “secure” page protectors. They’re sturdier than regular page protectors and have a flap to keep the page inside.
- Scissors or paper cutter, if you want to make tracing strips.
- When the strips are laminated, they’re easy to wipe down the sanitizing wipes.
- A guillotine style cutter is better for cutting laminated pages, but I usually use my paper trimmer because it’s less scary to have out around kids!
- Binder rings, optional for an easy go-bag activity or less mess at home.
- Crayons, pencils, markers, etc. for tracing
- Markers provide less friction. This means they are both easier to use and less of a fine motor challenge.
- Pencils and crayons have more friction and can provide a greater challenge. We like Honeyscticks beeswax crayons because the colors are easy to see and they’re pure beeswax.
- Your child can also fill the line with small manipulatives, like pompoms, using a pair of plastic tweezers.
- Your child can also just use their finger for tracing!
How to use trace in the path pages
Make sure to get your download from lower down in the post.
Print the pages you want to use. If your child is new to this type of activity, you might want to skip printing the last page. If they’re very practiced at tracing, they might not be interested in the first, easiest page.
Demonstrate how to use the pages. You can start by tracing from left to right with your index finger, or you can jump straight to using a marker/crayon.
If your child has trouble tracing, or if you want a new activity to keep your child’s attention, you can have your child place small manipulatives to fill the path instead of tracing inside.
Virtually anything small can work for covering the path. You can use nature treasures, pompoms, balls of play dough, mathlinks cubes, etc. After placing the manipulatives, you can count together how many it took to reach the end of the line. You may even want to leave the objects on the line so you can count and compare how many it takes to fill various lines. It’s amazing how many ways you can use these simple printables for learning.
Free printable winter trace in the path fine motor practice pages download
Like all free preschool printables on The Artisan Life, these are for personal and single classroom use. You are welcome to use them with Scouts groups, home school co-ops, etc.
You are not licensed to redistribute the files or printouts to others for their personal use. Instead, please send your friends and coworkers to this page so they can download their own copies.
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I hope your little learner enjoys using these winter trace in the path pages! There are many more free printable winter activities here on The Artisan Life. Make sure to download them, too, while you’re here!
Winter printables and activities
Need more winter printables and activities to keep your kids busy on a cold day?
These polar animal bingo cards are low-prep fun for a cold winter day!
These free printable winter ten frame cards are a fun, easy way to help your child learn how to count.
These free printable snowflake coloring pages are fun and helpful as part of a lesson on the weather.
These free printable winter tracing pages are a no-prep educational activity for preschoolers, pre-k, and kindergarteners.
Toddlers and preschoolers love these free printable winter do a dot marker pages! Use them with duaber style markers, dot stickers, or pompoms.
These snowman templates are perfect for crafts and teh build a snowman cut and color worksheet is great for working on fine motor skills!
This free printable winter bingo is fun for the whole family. Even young children can play along since reading is not required!
These cute winter animals are so much fun for kids to color! Click through for 20+ free printable winter animal coloring sheets for kids.
This free printable word scramble is a fun brain teaser for older children (and adults, too!)
Pick from three levels of difficulty to keep all of your kids busy and learning on a cold winter day.
This picture crossword puzzle is fun and easy for kids! Bonus: the answer key is included.
These free printable winter alphabet matching cards are a fun way to help your child associate uppercase and lowercase letters.
These free printable winter counting cards are in both English and Spanish with numbers 1-10 with cute penguins.
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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