I made these for A when she was 2, and now have started getting them out for E.
It’s the Kumon book My First Book of Tracing, but it’s not about tracing, the name is just weird. It’s more like mazes.
It starts off easy and gets more difficult as you go through the book. What I did is cut out about 8 of the pages with a Stanley/Exacto knife that were roughly the same level of difficulty. Then I put them in plastic sleeves and taped the top (or else marker gets on the pages and they also can fall out). Then I laced them together with string through the holes.
I also made some of my own pages, like the zigzags above, to extend certain skill pages that A needed more practice on than just one page.
I gave her a washable marker to use on the plastic pages, and it’s reusable and lasts forever, instead of using up the pages of the Kumon book, or very tediously erasing them (which I started out doing, and my arm got so tired and it took forever and was annoying!)
Wipe clean with a slightly damp cloth. Have a dry one handy as well, to dry it after wiping.
These books are awesome for learning pen control. They start kids out learning movements and shapes that are used in writing letters. They’re so bright and colorful and the activities and mazes are fun for little kids. I made a bunch of these mini workbooks, with each one getting a little more difficult. So once a book became too easy, we jsut stopped using it and started using the next one.
Making the reusable ones takes a bit of time, but is so worth it, mainly because you can reuse them, don’t have to erase, and you have smaller books of one level of difficulty rather than you kid whizzing through the pages and just scribbling because it’s getting too hard!
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