Free St. Patrick’s Day Roll & Trace Prewriting Printable
I know that the seasons change a lot that we are always looking for new ways to work on prewriting practice with kids. And today I have something fun just for St. Patrick’s Day!
A really fun free St. Patrick’s Day Roll & Trace Prewriting printable. This is an easy way to get your prewriting done by adding a little fun. Plus, I love adding a little bit of something different in the season for kids to have.
And I know that we are always looking for fun new ways to do prewriting. You can use these with kids in preschool, prek, and kindergarten.
The St. Patrick’s Day Roll & Trace Prewriting Printable is a great addition to the St. Patrick’s Day printables and 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.
St. Patrick’s Day Roll & Trace Prewriting Printable
There are two lines styles that you can pick from. This is to help meet the needs of the kids at different prewriting levels.
Thse prewriting lines are great for kids in preschool (ages 3 to 4), prek (ages 4 to 5), and kindergarten (ages 5 to 6).
St. Patrick’s Day Roll & Trace Prewriting Thin Dashed Line
The first style of line is a thin line. You can see that it is a small black dashed line they can follow to the pot of gold. This gives them a great start and stop with the leprechaun and the pot of gold.
These prewriting lines are great for older kids in prek and extra practice for kindergarten.
St. Patrick’s Day Roll & Trace Prewriting Thick Line
The second type of line in a thicker dashed gray line. This is great for those that are not as good at the smaller lines. They have a wider area to trace the lines.
These prewriting lines are great for kids in preschool and prek.
A fun St. Patrick’s Day Book to Read with the Roll & Trace Prewriting Printable
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Clover is a fun book to read with kids during St. Patrick’s Day. And we love the books in this series.
Things to use with the St. Patrick’s Day Roll & Trace Prewriting Printable
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- printer
- white copy paper
- pencil
- pencil grip
- math dice
- number writing practice dice
- sheet protectors
- dry erase markers
- q-tip
- playdough
How we used the St. Patrick’s Day Roll & Trace Prewriting Printable
You can see how we use the St Patrick’s Day pre-writing printable with kids.
Setting up a Prewriting Center
You will need a six-sided dice for this activity. If you don’t have one check out our number writing practice dice.
You can see how I set it up. I give them something to trace with and the dice. I love using markers or crayons so the line comes out colored. I some times color the dice to make the items I give them. This time we used colored pencils
Roll & Trace the Prewriting Lines
Every time they roll the dice they trace the matching line. You roll until you have traced all the lines. You can see they rolled a 3 and trace the matching line.
We also traced the lines with the same color we colored the die.
Use Hands-On Items on the Prewriting Lines
Don’t forget you can use other items on the lines as well. We have often use hands-on items on the lines. We use green pony beads this time to make our lines. You can fill in the whole line or you could just have them put a bead on each dash line
Reuse the Roll & Trace the Prewriting Lines
If you want to use these pages over and over. Be sure to laminate the page or put it in a sheet protector so kids can trace the lines over and over with dry erase markers.
You might even change it up so that if they roll a line they have already traced. They use a q-tip to erase the line.
Two fine motor activities at one time. You get tracing and then cleaning the line.
Using Playdough on the Prewriting Lines
You could also have them use playdough on the prewriting lines after you have put the page in a sheet protector. They roll the dice and then line the prewriting line with playdough.
More Prewriting Printables For Kids
If you are looking for new more prewriting activities you can check out the Fine Motor Prewriting Set. It has loads of activities in no-prep worksheets to tracing strips and more. It has loads of prewriting pages and grows with kids and the progress through prewriting activities.
Fine Motor Prewriting Printable Set
Looking for more pre-writing printables or want it just ready to print and use. Then check out the Fine Motor 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 big and thin dashed lines, no-prep pages, prewriting strips, easy reader book and more!
What you will find in the Fine Motor Prewriting Printable Set
- Big Solid and Dashes Prewriting Lines with a start and stop.
- Big Solid and Dashes Prewriting mixed with start and stop
- Thin Prewriting lines with start and stop.
- Thin Lines Prewriting mixed with start and stop.
- Prewriting Practice with prewriting fonts in guidelines with start and stop.
- Prewriting Practice with Patterns with prewriting fonts – Large Font
- Prewriting Practice prewriting fonts single repeated prewriting
- Prewriting Practice with prewriting fonts all fonts together
- Prewriting Practice Patterns with prewriting fonts – Single Pattern Repeated
- Prewriting Practice Patterns with prewriting fonts – mixed patterns together
- Prewriting Practice Patterns Finish the Patterns with prewriting fonts – mixed patterns together
- Prewriting Practice Spin & Trace Prewriting Fonts
- Prewriting Strips: Big Solid Prewriting Lines with Stop & Start – Color and Black & White
- Prewriting Strips: Big Dashed Prewriting Lines with Stop & Start – Color and Black & White
- Prewriting Strips: Prewriting thin lines with start and stop – Color and Black & White
- Prewriting Strips: Prewriting Practice with prewriting fonts in guidelines with start and stop – Color and Black & White
- Prewriting Strips: Prewriting Practice with prewriting fonts in guidelines.
- Prewriting Strips: Prewriting Practice Patterns
- Prewriting Easy Reader Books Big Dashes Lines – Single Print
- Prewriting Easy Reader Books Big Dashes Lines – Teacher Print
- Prewriting Easy Reader Books Thin Dashes Lines – Single Print
- Prewriting Easy Reader Books Thin Dashes Lines – Teacher Print
- 174 pages
- Price: $8
What you will find in the Free St. Patrick’s Day Roll & Trace Prewriting Printables:
- No-prep printable with St. Patrick’s Day theme
- Roll & trace Prewriting Printable
- Thick solid line 2 pages
- Thick line dashed 2 pages
- 4 pages of Printables
More St Patrick’s Day Printables For Kids
St Patrick’s Day Dot Markers Printables are fun for kids to do some hands-on activities. You have fine motor pages and then you have ABC dot marker pages with St. Patrick’s Day Words.
St. Patrick’s Day No-Prep Weekly Packs has 5 days of printables with 4 pages for each day. These are no-prep packs that means just print and go. You have PreK, Kindergarten, First Grade, Second Grade, Third Grade, and Fourth Grade.
St Patrick’s Day Prewriting, ABCs, Numbers & Shapes has no-prep pages, easy reader books, clip cards, and tracing strips for kids to work on the different skills. These are a fun way to work on different skills in the same theme.
St. Patrick’s Day Writing Paper is great for your seasonal writing. There are two different types of lines and two different pictures at the top for kids to use. You can use these with the guidelines for kindergarten and single line for older grades.
The Romping & Roaring Color Green Pack has 8 pages of printables that work on the color green. A fun addition to St Patrick’s Day for kids.
Romping & Roaring R Pack is a pack about R is for Rainbow. This is great for letter R or just doing a rainbow theme. It has loads of rainbow themes for working on the letter R.
The Rainbow Fine Motor Mats have 6 rainbow fine motor mats with tracing, coloring, q-tip and dot marker. All with a rainbow theme to help kids work on fine motor skills.
Check out all the fun St Patrick’s Day Activities & Printables on 3 Dinosaurs.
Cassie – 3Dinosaurs.com
