Parents and teachers with younger children will appreciate this tip on FREE Dotted Letter Font For Tracing. You can DIY or make your own worksheets for kids to practice hand writing. Plus, below are a few ideas to inspire boys and girls to practice their A B C’s with paper and pencil…
FREE Dotted Letter Font For Tracing
Backstory: my son needs practice with hand writing (youngest kid in class means he’s behind in terms of fine motor skills PLUS he’s active and hand writing is so sedentary it bores him). So I’ve been trying – little by little – to work with him on his printing.
He still needs the lines for letter size (he make BIG letters most days). And he mixes up the direction of certain letters (his P often comes out like a 9). Yes, he’s been tested and no there’s no worry of Dyslexia. Just a boy who needs to practice printing.
I’ve been using alphabet dotted line worksheets (thank you Pinterest). But I had an idea this morning…what if there was a dotted line font I could use in Word to make my own worksheets?!
And there is! And it’s FREE!
Yes, it’s a FREE Dotted Letter Font For Tracing. And totally safe for downloading (I know I worry about picking up virus’ from downloading too). And no, this post isn’t sponsored…this is a free font I downloaded myself (safely) and have made printing practice sheets.
-> Go to FontSpace KG Primary Dots by Kimberly Geswein (or click that handy link I’ve put there). Click download. And then just go through the install prompts. Takes less than 5 minutes. Open up Word. Choose the KG Primary Font from your font menu…and BOOM…you can make your own printing worksheets for free.
My son is crazy for baseball now…so I thought I could harness his interest in the sport for printing practice. I created this Baseball Team Names printing practice worksheet pdf (click that link and it will take you to a pdf page where you can print it from your computer – no download required).
I added the logos to each team for fun. He can practice capital letters, lower case letters, spacing, and letter size using baseball as a tool. And then, read it back to me (reading skills too)!
You could do this for boys and girls.
Dotted letter hand writing sheets ideas:
- Movies
- Sports
- Food
- Music
- Items of clothing
- Names
- Things at the park
You could also turn this into another activity and MAKE YOUR OWN ABC BOOK
When you kids have conquered print writing they might be ready for cursive.
FREE CURSIVE HANDWRITING FONTS FOR TRACING
This is a great idea. I will certainly give it a go. Thank you. We try to write letters to family for practice.
That’s a great idea! We started a pen pal thing with ds’s best friend for the summer. They live in the same city…but it gives both kids opportunity to write and get mail.
This is great, I will have to show this to my daughter for her young one, she needs some help as well with printing!
You have to love free printables, especially for the kids!!!! Great way to encourage writing over the summer!
This is a great way to help the kiddos practice their letters. I love it.
That’s really great. I love that it uses baseball teams to help keep kids excited about what they’re practicing.
I love printable’s like this! It saves me a good amount of money from buying from the store something that I only need a little bit of. Thank you for this. I will definitely be printing these off.
These are such a great idea. They are perfect for keeping the kids skills up over the summer. I will have to share this with my friends with little kids.
What a great printable template. Tracing is such an important skill for young children, especially those going into pre-kindergarten or preschool this fall. It’s great that there are so many free resources to help kids practice their skills over the summer.
What a great idea. No need to pay for the workbooks when you can do it yourself.
These are great! My 1st grader is working on perfecting her writing of letters. Thank you!
Thank you! This is perfect for my 5 year old son!
I love this! My son struggles with his handwriting. This would be a great way for him to get in some practice.
This will be awesome for so many learning activities. Those lines are so helpful when you’re the kids just starting to write.
What a great way to create and use for the kids. I love helping my son and nephew learn letters, words and writing!
We could have used this when we were homeschooling! My kids practiced a lot when they were in elementary grades. Very creative!
I love this idea for learning letters! My nephew and niece are at just the right age to need this. I think they will enjoy the challenge!
These would be great to use for kids to do while they are on summer break or for extra practice! Thanks for the free printable!
Oh this is fantastic, my daughter loves doing these I’ll have to print this out. 🙂
Thanks for sharing I love thr idea and give it try!
This will be great, Granddaughter just starting to write and we would really love for her to have neat handwriting
This reminds me of my childhood in the Philippines. Every one had a pad of paper like that to practice writing cursive.
Thanks for sharing! Great idea using the baseball teams. Love it!