4 Simple Ways to Make Letter Tracing Fun for Toddler and Preschool Kids

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In this post you’ll learn a simple and easy way for how do you make letter tracing fun and exciting.

Like many moms who are concerned with their kid’s handwriting, I started to search for Letter tracing pages for my kids to practice on.

I did that same practice during my early years. Though it’s boring, the repetition works.

But not for my kids.

They find the tracing activities mundane, and as soon as I pulled out the second copy of the tracing pages, they’d yawn.

As a mom, I know they’re not interested to continue. Of course, I can force them to complete the task.

But deep inside, I wanted to see my little ones having fun doing what seemed daunting to them.

Ding!

An idea came.

How Do You Make Letter Tracing Fun?

What about…

Sprinkling some fun into the tracing practice?

I’m thinking that I’d add some adorable pictures that move along the lines.

#1: Tracing with pictures

For example, we’d draw our own tracing page on a blank paper. Let’s say we’ll draw one girl is going to a park.

So you’d draw a girl at one side and a park at one side, then draw tracing lines from the girl to the park.

But if you want to save your time, try searching for printable pages that has adorable pictures like the one below.

The smiling pumpkins make it look fun and exciting, right?

You can prompt by saying, let’s help the pumpkin hop to the end.

PS: You can find this Pumpkin-theme Step-by-Step Letter Tracing packet here

#2: Tracing short lines for letter formation

Once your child is done with tracing the basic lines, have them trace the letters.

For little kids, short lines help motivate them to trace because it doesn’t demand that much endurance.

Take a look at the below example.

To add more fun, let them draw their mini apples at the letters.

PS: You can find this Apple-theme Step-by-Step Letter Tracing packet here

#3: Tracing Large Letters

Many options makes tracing more lively and exciting.

To make tracing letters fun, why don’t you add in some large letter tracing in your practice.

Take a peek at the below picture for example.

PS: You can find this Penguin-theme Letter Tracing packet here

#4: Include Beginning Sounds Picture

Let’s add in some related Beginning Sounds pictures to your letter tracing activity.

This makes tracing fun because your kids would then be able to relate “Oh, this letter A is for Apple.”

PS: You can find this Penguin-theme Letter Tracing packet here

Let’s Recap

Let’s recap our initial question: So how to make tracing letter fun?

1. By adding some pictures while your kids practice tracing the lines that make up the letters
2. By tracing short lines that lead to letter formation
3. By tracing large letters
4. By including some related beginning sounds pictures

I hope this post helps ignite some ideas for you.

Here’s to fun and exciting letter tracing activities.

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