Free Fine Motor Practice With Q-Tip Prewriting Printables

Prewriting can be something that not all kids like to do. This newest prewriting printable is something to make prewriting a little more fun.

It lets you change up the normal ways you do writing and add something fun into it.

The free Q-tip Prewriting Printables are fun and great for kids to use.

The Q-Tip Prewriting Printables are a great addition to the prewriting printables on the site.

So what is pre-writing?

I remember the first time I heard the word pre-writing in school. My first thought was writing a paper or starting a paper.

But for young kids, pre-writing is the skill to build to work up to writing letters and other types of writing. It also teaches the direction that we read.

You can start a lot of those skills with fine motor activities with playdough and other small motor movements. But a lot of those skills are working up to prewriting with lines. Then working on more fine motor skills that help to do better with writing and reading later in life.

You start out with thick prewriting lines and work to thinner prewriting lines. Then to prewriting patterns that work into writing letters.

Q-Tip Prewriting Printables

These cotton swab prewriting printables are something great for fine motor and working up to other prewriting activities.

I love using q-tips for painting and various other activities. So taking something we love to use already and making it a prewriting activity very fun!

This was an easy addition to the prewriting that we do. There at 8 pages and similar to the other prewriting worksheets and a page with four different lines with two pages of mixed cotton swab lines.

Q-Tip Prewriting Printables: Single Line

You will find all the lines going in the same direction. This makes it easy to practice some of the same patterns over and over. There are straight lines for starting and more complex lines as you develop fine motor skills.

Q-Tip Prewriting Printables: Multiple Lines

There is also one page that has 4 directions on one page. These pages make great review pages after you are done the other pages. The first page has more straight lines and the second page of these has more complex prewriting on them.

Things to use with the Q-Tip Prewriting Worksheets for Fine Motor

There are many things to use with the Q-tip Prewriting printables and I’m going to highlight some of them that you will need for the activities below.
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• printer
• copy paper
• q-tip
• washable paints
• pony beads
• watercolors
• smiley face stickers
• sheet protectors
• dry erase markers
• laminator

How we used these Q-Tip Prewriting Printables for Fine Motor

Who says you have to use a printable just one way. I never do. And I love to share how we use the printables.

Use Cotton Swabs With this Prewriting Printable

The most basic way to use these is with q-tip. We do this a lot. I like to give them two colors and see what happens. I will suggest a pattern if the child is olde enough to do patterns. You can see lines just dotted and lines dotted with patterns. We used q-tips and paints to do this one.

Use the Mini Dot Markers on the Q-tip Prewriting Lines

You can also use the mini dot markers on the prewriting lines. They work great for dotting the circles and are the same size as the circles.

Place Pony Beads on the Circles

The circles also work for small pony beads. It is great fine motor work for kids to do. This gives them a small object to play on the circles. You can give them a mix of pony beads and let them have fun with it.

Paint in the Circles on the Q-Tip Prewriting Printable

You can also have fun with watercolors. You can have them put a dot of watercolor in each circle. This is great fine motor work for kids to do.

Use Stickers on the Prewriting Circles

These also work great for small circle stickers. You get to the fine motor work of getting the sticker off and then placing the sticker on the line. You can do a line a day or the whole page. I love using the smiley face stickers.

Reuse the Q-tip Prewriting Pages

If you are looking to reuse the pages laminate them or put them in sheet protector and use a large dry erase markers on them. It lets them dot the circles and you can reuse the page.

More Q-Tip & Dot Marker Prewriting Printables

If you are looking for additional q-tip prewriting activities check out the Fine Motor Dot Prewriting Printable Set. It has additional pages with more prewriting options and includes shapes, more lines to dot, and additional prewriting activities. as well.

What you will find in the Free Q-Tip Prewriting Printables

• 8 pages of q-tip prewriting with for use with q-tips or other small painting objects.
• 2 pages of q-tip prewriting review pages
• 10 pages of no-prep prewriting worksheets

Click here to get your copy of the Free Q-Tip Prewriting Printables

Fine Motor Dot Prewriting Printable Set

Looking for more dot pre-writing printables or want it just ready to print and use. Then check out the Fine Motor Dot Prewriting Printable Set.

This set includes some of the printables above in an easy no-prep printable set. Plus additional and new printables. The sets include dot marker and q-tip no-prep pages, prewriting strips, easy reader book and more!

• Dot marker Prewriting Lines with start and stop
• Dot marker Prewriting Lines with start and stop with lines types mixed together.
• Dot Marker Prewriting Fonts with start and stop.
• Dot Marker Shapes – two shapes per page: circle, square, triangle, oval, rhombus, heart, crescent, rectangle
• Q-Tip Prewriting Lines with start and stop
• Q-Tip Prewriting Fonts with start and stop with guidelines
• Q-Tip Prewriting Shapes – four shapes per page: circle, square, triangle, oval, rhombus, heart, crescent, rectangle
• Q-Tip Prewriting Fonts with stop and start with guidelines.
• Q-Tip Prewriting Fonts with stop and start no guidelines.
• Q-Tip Prewriting Fonts with one example and one for them to make on their own with start and stop
• Q-Tip Prewriting Fonts mixed up in patterns in guidelines
• Q-Tip Prewriting Fonts in continues pattern in guidelines.
• Dot Marker Prewriting Line Strips
• Dot Marker Prewriting Font Strips
• Dot Marker Prewriting Font Strips with colored stop and start.
• Q-Tip Prewriting Lines Strips
• Q-Tip Prewriting Fonts with Guidelines
• Q-Tip Prewriting Fonts with Guidelines with colored stop and start.
• Prewriting Easy Reader Books Dot Marker lines – Single Print
• Prewriting Easy Reader Books Dot Marker lines – Teacher Print
• Prewriting Easy Reader Books Q-Tip Lines – Single Print
• Prewriting Easy Reader Books Q-Tip Lines – Teacher Print
• 154 pages
• Price: $8

Click here to buy your copy of the Fine Motor: Dot Prewriting at Teachers Pay Teachers.

Here are some other Prewriting Printables

The Fine Motor Prewriting Dot Set has 154 pages of prewriting with dot markers and q-tips. You are going to find no-prep worksheets, tracing strips, easy reader books, shapes and more. All working on early fine motor skills in a slightly different way. These are great starter area is you are not ready for prewriting lines.

Prewriting Practice Solid & Dashed Printables has thick lines in a solid line and a thick dashed line for kids that need bigger lines. Plus has a start and stop for kids to use.

Prewriting Practice Printables has thin lines for kids to trace. There are several different lines to work on. There is only one line type on each page.

Prewriting Practice Dice is a fun prewriting activity with dice you roll and then write what is on the dice.

Prewriting Dot Marker Printables is great for fine motor development of matching the dot marker to the cirles in different line patterns.

Check out all the fun Prewriting Printables and Activities on 3 Dinosaurs.

Cassie – 3Dinosaurs.com