Develop your child's fine motor skills (smaller movements that occur between wrists, hands and fingers) to develop the strength of their fingers - see website links for activity ideas in the resources section
Develop your child's gross motor skills (the large muscles in the body including core strength) see website links for activity ideas in the resources section
Explore pre writing lines and strokes with your child - Vertical Line (l), Horizontal Line (-), Circle Shape (o), Cross Shape (+), Square Shape, Right & Left Diagonal Line (\ /), X Shape (X), Triangle Shape. See website links in the resources section
If you are teaching your child to write their name (not imperitive) please teach them to do capital letter for the first letter and lower case letters for the rest of their name (refer to NSW foundation writing sheet in resources section)