Mark Making Worksheets & Colouring Sheets for Kids
Want to continue mark making at home? We’ve been working hard behind the scenes to bring you lots of FREE Mark Making Worksheets & Colouring Sheets for Kids featuring our very own Mark Makers!
The Mark Makers is a fun & unique early writing programme created by a qualified early years teacher. It aims to teach early writing and mark making skills to under 5s through a simple and play based structure. Our Mark Making Programme is available to buy here.
You can download any of the sheets for FREE at our online shop…
Mark Making Fine Motor Activities, Formation, Cutting & Colouring Sheets for Childre
What is Mark Making?
Mark making is the first step towards writing!
Mark making is a huge part of your child’s learning journey and one of the outcomes of a prime area of learning – Physical Development – in Early Years Foundation Stage Guidance (birth to 60 months).
When your child starts to make scribbles, patterns and shapes, this is ‘mark making’. It is the first step towards writing. Your child explores, experiments and expresses themselves through the marks they make. They begin to assign meaning to their marks, which leads to creativity and exploration.
Exploring different textures, materials and grabbing various apparatus will help your child get ready for writing. Encouraging your child to use their hands, fingers, feet and toes to make marks will strengthen their core muscles and develop their gross and fine motor skills. These skills are vital for holding and controlling a pencil and letter and number formation.
Children can mark make in many different ways: pen and paper, painting, ‘messy play’ or even drawing in the sand on the beach. All of these provide opportunities to explore a wide range of tools too such as paintbrushes, chalks, pencils and their bodies. The benefits of mark making are clear. Your child’s fine motor skills will develop and strengthen in preparation for writing.
The Mark Makers Book Range
