Handwriting with fluidity, speed, accuracy and over longer periods of time requires a complex range of whole body and hand strengths and skills. So, it is not surprising that many children find handwriting challenging.

The summer holidays are the perfect time to start working on supporting your child to develop the physical strength and skill sets they need for handwriting and many other everyday activities.

How do we do this?

PLAY!!!

Last week we looked at the importance of different types of play. By giving your child the opportunity to experience the different types of play you will also be supporting them to build their physical strength and skill sets.

Handwriting skills development is not all about paper and pencil worksheet activities (though these help later on).

For fun game ideas go to our ‘Big to small’ (https://teachhandwriting.co.uk/big-to-small.html) or games (https://teachhandwriting.co.uk/games.html) sections.

If you would like some more focused activity ideas try our handwriting ‘warm up’ section (https://teachhandwriting.co.uk/warm-ups.html).

All these can be found in our Learning Through Play section of our new parents area of the website: https://teachhandwriting.co.uk/parents.html

Enjoy the summer break with your child and learn to play again.