Christmas Letter Tracing

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Tracing can be a fantastic way for children to learn letter and number formation and is an excellent way to open the door when it comes to learning to read.

This important concept teaches them the letter shapes and in many cases, letter order as well.

They’ll engage their minds through not only a visual component, but a tactile one as well and if you’re calling out the letters for them to look for, you can add an auditory component in there on top of that.

Add in an element of fun with these Christmas letter tracing cards and your students won’t even realized that they’re working on a few different critical skills.

What is Letter Tracing?

Letter tracing is the process of tracing letter shapes in a deliberate and methodic fashion and can be done with crayons, markers, pencils, chalk, or even your students’ fingers.

This not only gives your students the opportunity to work on their fine motor skills, but to also feel how the letter is formed before attempting it on their own.

As with any new concept or skill, practice is key and will help them master letter formation in no time!

What are the Benefits of Letter Tracing?

Tracing letters can be done alone or with assistance from an adult, teacher, peer, older sibling, or a friend.

It’s a fantastic way to practice letter recognition and letter formation, but that’s not all!

Tracing can help your students work on their:

• fine motor skills
• pre-writing skills
• concentration
• visual-spatial skills

How to Practice Letter Tracing with Your Students

Tracing letters, or numbers, is one of those super easy skills that require almost nothing to practice. No special materials, no manipulatives… Nothing but a writing utensil and some paper.

Just write a couple of letters onto a piece of paper, give your students a writing utensil and let them trace.

You can, however, mix it up a little bit and make it considerably more fun for your students by adding some themed tracing cards to your writing center and right now, with the Christmas holiday coming up, we’ve got the perfect set of tracing cards!

These Christmas letter tracing cards are perfect for the month of December and make practice those handwriting skills a fun Christmas-themed activity rather than a boring chore that must be done.

How to Use the Christmas Letter Tracing Cards

Our printable Christmas letter tracing cards include both the uppercase letters of the alphabet as well as the lowercase versions.

The brightly colored Christmas characters are sure to be a hit whether you’re using them at home or in a classroom and they’re super easy to prep for you students!

Simply print out the Christmas letter tracing cards that you’d like to use, cut them out, and run them through your laminator.

You can, of course, use them without laminating if you’re only planning to use them once, but if you’d like to use them with multiple students or reuse them again in the future, laminate each card and trace the letters using a dry erase marker.

Above all, while tracing letters can help your students develop multiple skills, it’s important to remember that this activity is meant to be fun.

Young children, especially those that are just learning to write, should not feel pressured or stressed out when it comes time to practice. Instead, they should be given ample opportunities to practice through play and other fun activities.

After all, if you truly want to instill a lifelong love of learning in your students, it’s important to not only make sure that their learning is age appropriate, but also fun and engaging at the same time and these Christmas letter tracing cards are the perfect way to do just that!