Preparing Your Child for Preschool: Fun Preschool Activity

If you have been teaching your child how to write at home, this is a fun preschool activity that you both may enjoy. Have your child write a short letter to a family member. We have family that lives across the country, so we mailed the letter out.

Personally, grandma and grandpa are kind of big words for a preschooler to try to write, so we simply just stuck with the “Hi,” heading. Your note can say something like “I am just writing to say hi,” or “I miss you,” or “I love you,” or something else along the same lines.

Preparing Your Child for Preschool: ABC Primary Pad

Another great way that you can help to prepare your child for preschool or even kindergarten is with an ABC Primary Pad. What I am talking about is pictured above. The pad that we have is called an ABC Primary Pad, but I have also heard them called different things, but I can’t think of the names right now.

Right now, my daughter is using these pads to learn how to read and write, but we have actually been using them for a while now. What I like about the ABC Primary pads is that they have those lines that are good for learning how to write. My daughter actually use to just draw along the lines with different colored crayons at first. I actually think that helped to improve her writing and her coloring accuracy.

Also in the picture, you can see some homemade worksheets that I created for my daughter. Since she is still young, I decided to write her out all of the letters so that she can trace them herself. If you have an older child or one who is good at writing, you may want to let them make their own letters instead of just tracing them.

To spice up the activity, we use different colors for each letter. I also give my daughter a sticker after she does a row of letters.