How to teach a toddler handwriting easily

hello everyone today I want to show you a video on how to teach toddlers to write and this is a question that I have gotten many times from many of my subscribers so I hope you find this video helpful and resourceful so one of the first things you want to start off with as early as even one years old is fine motor skills activities so here I have tool today that I want to quickly show you you can get these pom-poms at the dollar so you can create your own little container like this and you have the child practice fine motor skills putting these little palm pumps of the container as the user pincer grasp and also good for hand-eye coordination which will help with writing later on and you can find many of these activities on my blog I have a whole section with pictures and fine motor skills activities and I will post a link on the description box simple activities like this you can get these pipe cleaners also at the dollar store at Walmart and you just take an Old Spice container and you can create an activity very very easily so start strengthening the hands and getting them ready for writing so these are prewriting activities another thing that you want to start early on is to get the child to start holding writing utensils so crayons pencils markers I have these Crayola oval crayons that you can start with children as young as even nine months old and you want to give them a piece of paper and you want them to scribble and write and draw whatever they want everything and this is going to help them strengthen those hands and it's going to help develop muscular coordination for writing later on and if you want you can even start a little portfolio like I did for my child I started when she was 13 months old and I started keeping all of her little scribbles and I used to give her also some paint so some days I'll give her more first some days I would give her some paint crayons and this is wonderful because you can see the child's progress so beautiful you can see when the child first through the first circles when they first through their first little person and it really is something beautiful to look back on here you can see she's 20 month old and she's already starting to do circles and so I'm able to track and see once she drew her first circles when she drew her first little people and it is so so so so beautiful guys I really recommend it and then when they got older you can give them this Thundercat and pass it down he wants to get coloring books that of cartoons or of figures that they are interested in little animals and have them color draw use their hands at an early age they don't have to color within the lines even if they just scribble this is going to help strengthen those hands for writing and then you want to move on to something more structured and this is a little folder that I created and these are prewriting worksheets that I have in here and these prewriting worksheets are great you can laminate them or you can put them in sheet protectors and you want to start with vertical lines just have them trace vertical lines from one from the top to bottom top to bottom then you want to move on to horizontal lines from one end to the other then Sun slanted lines you want to move on to prewriting squares and to six-legged lines finally and you can get all of these rushes for free on my blog so you can start your toddler off right away to start tracing horizontal and vertical lines another thing that I did was that I got a common book I got a common workbook and this is called the cumin first book of tracing I went ahead and I laminated I took the pages are laminated and that created this here and I've put my hole punch there and I put it into this binder and these are very colorful and kids love it and they stay in a path they do a lot of vertical and horizontal tracing which is in slanted lines as well and this is great couldn't also put him in sheep or checkers which is actually the cheaper option and I recommend the better than laminating them like I did and one last thing that I did was I took a maze book and I got this one from the school so and publishing company and I kind of feel like $2.99 I think it was Pathmark on one of those stores well it's my local supermarket you can probably get at staples or the dollar store and they trace they go ahead and follow the path until they get to the end this is good logic as well for logic practice and good for helping strengthen those hands for pencil control and muscular coordination and kids really love it and they're very colorful again you just put them into she protectors and you create their own little binder and this is a prewriting binder that you can easily create for very very cheap so I definitely recommend that once the child has developed good pencil control you want to move on to help them write letters now you don't want to start with the letter A there is actually an order in which you can teach letters I will post a link on the description box where you can find the correct order or the best order I should say and how to teach letters for example it's easier to start with the letter L than to start with the letter A also you want to start with capital letters because developmentally capital letters are easier to write and when you start with capital letters learning to write capitals or you start learning writing capitals it makes it an easy transition to lowercase so you want to provide worksheet like these I created these and you can get these for free on my blog as well these are all capital letters from A through Z and it shows you the correct way and how to form the ladder this is very important as you can see it shows you down and across you don't want a child to start forming bad habits by going like this for example you want them to form the letter the correct way from the beacon down and across down and across there is a correct way of writing each letter and you want them to from the beginning to develop the habit of writing the letters the correct way so you want to start with one letter and even if it takes you two or three weeks or even a month to learn how to write that letter that is totally fine you want the child to learn how to write their letters correctly right from the start then you move on to the next letter and so on and again I will provide the order in which you should teach letters and then I will provide a link on the description box once they have learned how to trace a log trace and also write on their own all of their capital letters then you want to move on to lowercase letters and I'm going to show you this morning letters and numbers workbook that I have for my three-year-old daughter and this is what she's been working on this year basically this is a workbook and which I created for her and she gets one letter a day and one number a day that she works on so for example Monday she wants to work on the letter E so the first thing that she does is I usually provide manipulatives different manipulatives each day to do the activities in the workbook so for the first thing that she does is she makes the letter E with whatever manipulative I give her and this is more for fun than anything else you want to make learning fun so that the child is engaged and so that the child looks forward to learning and writing everyday so she forms her letter e with whatever manipulatives I give her this is just for fun she could use buttons you can use beans you can use erasers whatever you have at home when she does that she moves on to tracing the letter e so as you can see I have capital letter e and also the lowercase E's and then she goes ahead and she writes upper and lowercase here as well the next thing that she does is that she does the number for the so she traces the number four she writes the number four on her own then she tries to find the number four this is the good number recognition and then she puts the number of quantity in here with the with the manipulatives that I have given her for the day so for example if I've given her buttons she would place four buttons here one two three and four four buttons so this is a really hands-on way fun way to learn their numbers so again they got one letter a day and one number a day the last page is just tracing the number four and actual and the eye and actual way of writing the number four as well it teaches how to write the number correctly as well so I do that in all of my principles and you guys can get this on my teachers pay teacher's site I will provide a link on the description box so every day she gets a letter and a number of day and this provides plenty of practice she goes all the way up to number twenty another way of two letter Z and it's an excellent way to get children to practice their letters and numbers so that's the not letters and numbers workbook once the child has learned to write all of their letters and all of their numbers you want to move on to sentences and I have this chronology story drawing pad and I go ahead and we write a sentence every day it can be about a story we read it can be about anything she's inspired to write about this one she wrote I went to the park and I try to have her start doing punctuation as well so she draws a picture and she writes a sentence as you can see my daughter I still having trouble staying within the lines but that is fine she's not for ya so she's about she's a little over three and a half and she is doing these sentences so that is one great way of getting kids to enjoy writing so this is oh one more thing that I want to share with you guys is either I almost forgot one important thing to too is before you even start getting into the writing letters is to get them to do circles lots of circles when they're doing their prewriting get them to do counterclockwise circles because most prints and letters use counterclockwise circles when they are written so you want to get them accustomed to drawing circles that's really important for writing so I hope you have gotten a good idea on how to teach toddlers to write you don't have to go out and purchase a curriculum you don't have to spend lots and lots of money it is really simple now I want you guys also to understand that most children will not be able to write until at least the age of four so unless you have started working with them at a very very young age our children develop at different rates and hand-eye coordination muscular coordination pencil control fine motor skills are all skills that are developed at different rates for different children so now our children will learn to write at the same time so don't get frustrated if your 2 or 3 year old is still not ready for writing that is totally fine focus on the prewriting activities such as tracing mesas tracing horizontal and vertical lines got a coloring book enjoy those moments through their their fine motor skills activities their hands-on activities and just to enjoy those moments with your children writing will come naturally as in terms of pencils I just use a short skinny pencil that's what I have found to work the best for us some people use the fatter pencils I found that the short skinny pencils worked the best so that's what I recommend these Crayola oval you can start using with children really young I really recommend these as well really start strengthening those muscles in the hands I hope I've given you some a good ideas guys the links that I said I would provide I will be providing them down below so that you can take advantage of all of these resources I this has been helpful on to the next video thanks for watching

Channel: Jady A.

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Length: 13min 16sec (796 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 21 2015