Making Handwriting Fun With Games
What is handwriting? Handwriting is a handy way with the help of which we record the 26 difficult signs of our verbal language. In simpler words handwriting is the way of putting the speech into words on the paper.
Imagine the back days, thinking about the great flowing handwriting of our grand parents and their parents. Most of them even had not proper schooling.
As regard of handwriting, the children do not learn to print in the first year of their schools. Rather they spent their whole year in giving some power to their small fingers with some standard exercises and games. They have to spend hours daily in kneading, pummeling, rolling and shaping the dough and plastic sine and not an hour even in developing their handwriting.
Rhymes such as Twinkle Twinkle little star, Incy winsy spider, 1,2,3,4,5, once I got a fish alive, Ten Green Bottles and many more – all these has to be sung with the energetic moves and finger actions which helps them in their handwriting in future.
The rest of the school time in the first year is spent in making circle pictures. As we know each of our 26 letters is either made of a circle or a bar or a part of it. The teachers make sense when they practice the children the teddy bear. Round circle for the face, a big round for the tummy, small rounds for the eyes and another round circle for the nose and then for arms and legs. Children like teddy bear and they love to draw it. It makes a nice combination.
The next step is usually inviting the teddy bear to the tea party. Round for the lid of the teapot, another round for the handle and still another for the sprout. They are asked to draw apples, oranges cherries and the train with the help of circles and bars. The idea behind all this is being creative while strengthening the little fingers.
The letters of alphabet are not easy. It needs strong trained fingers. In recent years we have developed a silly practice of asking a preschooler to write his own name. Tiny week fingers do this in a snoopy way thus inducing the lifetime habits of poor handwritings.
You as a parent have to struggle every day for improving the child’s handwriting. This can be prevented by.
• Strengthening the little fingers with the help of finger games
• Practice with your child playing bat and ball. Select the bats that have a broader face.
• Start teaching your four and a half year old child to form letter, while praising his efforts and his handwriting
• After this, teach your child writing his own name.
This will develop the best handwriting skills in your child which will be with him throughout his life and you have played a role as a parent.
