Teaching How to Write and Draw Shapes

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I’ve mentioned before that my son likes to do things his way.  If I try to tell him how to write a letter the right way, he turns me off.  Tells me I am wrong.  Gets mad.  Let’s just say it isn’t pretty.

I’ve drawn a lot of dotted letters for him to trace, gotten a few workbooks — which he loves.  But then I started seeing this great idea pop up all over Pinterest: teaching how to write Writing the letters or numbers with a highlighter is a lot easier than writing them in little dots or dashes, and a lot more fun for the little guy to trace!  (Have them trace the letters/numbers using a different color marker and watch the colors change as an added bonus!)

 

Then there are shapes.  He can make a pretty good circle by himself, but squares, rectangles, and everything else tends to look like a circle, too.

Of course, you could draw those in highlighter, too.  But the other day, as I was putting away our Play-Doh stuff, an idea hit me.

We have a bunch of cookie cutters in various shapes with our Play-Doh stuff, and they tend to not get used much.

What if we used them another way?

teaching how to draw shapesIt’s funny.  As soon as he saw that I had “forgotten” to put the shapes away, he was super interested in Mommy’s idea.

He practiced tracing inside the cookie cutter shapes (we turned them upside down so they were easier to trace) over and over.  His pencil lines are super hard to see, but if you look hard, he has squares and triangles all over that paper!

Suddenly, learning how to draw shapes was a lot more fun!

 

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    • I love the Wizard of Oz reference! (My favorite movie)
      Thanks for adding a link — I was just looking at that Luck O’ the Blogger linky! 🙂

  3. Great ideas! I had never heard of the highlighter thing, but definitely will be using it in future! 🙂 My daughter would LOVE that! 🙂

    I’m stopping by today, not only because I like your blog, but because your dear friend, Ginny Marie, linked you up to my Luck O’ The Blogger link-up on Fibro, Fit and Fab! where you can link-up your friends and tell us why you are so lucky to have them in your life! I thought it was so neat that my friends are friends! 🙂 That’s always a bonus! If you have time to drop by and link up a friend or a post about a friend (you can read more there), that would be great, but if you can’t I totally understand, but thought I’d ask anyway.

    Anyway, I hope you have a great day! 🙂 I’m planning on dropping by tomorrow and linking up to your Thankful Thursday link-up! 🙂

  5. I love the cookie cutter idea 🙂 There are so many different cookie cutter shapes too not just the normal square, triangle, diamond ones, there are snowmen, Christmas trees, Elmo 🙂 What a fun little activity to do (and they don’t even realize they are learning).

    • You’re right, you could certainly have them trace all kinds of different shaped cookie cutters! It’s good practice for hand-eye coordination and manual dexterity, and they don’t even know it! 🙂

    • See, I had tons of sheets ready with dots to follow; why I didn’t think of this earlier! 🙂 Pinterest is a wonderful things sometimes!

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