If you are a reader of this blog, then you know there are a lot of easy handwriting tips and posts to be found. Helping kids improve their handwriting is one topic that I love to write about and share ideas. I decided to take my top 30 ways to help kids work on handwriting and share them over the course of a month. So, save this page, bookmark it, or pin it and stop back often for a month of creative handwriting tips and quick fixes.
Easy and fun handwriting Tips
I love to share easy, fun, and creative ways to help kids work on their handwriting here and on social media too. That’s why I’m excited to have started a Facebook Group just for handwriting help. This is a place where you can find resources, help, tips, and ideas to help kids with handwriting. Join me in the Sweet Ideas for Handwriting Help Facebook group.
One quick tip to help with handwriting issues is to support handwriting at home! Use these carry over strategies to work on OT handwriting goals through handwriting homework and daily practice.
Easy ways to improve handwriting
Working on pencil control in handwriting? Why not start a handwriting club for kids? Kids can work on handwriting skills in a fun way. Here’s how to start a handwriting club kids will WANT to join!
For now, try these Handwriting Tips and Handwriting Quick Fixes:
- Bold Line Paper for Line Awareness
- Color Mixing Rainbow Writing Letter Formation Activity
- Small Pencil Trick for Helping with Pencil Grasp
- Thumb IP Joint Flexion Pencil Grasp Trick
- Mechanical Pencil for Writing Too Dark or Too Light
- Spatial Awareness & Line Awareness Activity Without Handwriting
- Easy DIY Slant Board and WHY Use a Slant Board?
- Spatial Awareness in Handwriting
- Handwriting Quick Check Self-Assessment List
- Coban Wrap Pencil Grip
- Distal Finger Control Exercises
- Omitting Letters and Words when Copying
- DIY Desk Fidget Tool
- Use a Timer to Help with Letter Formation
- Paper Position Desk Paper Positioner
- Executive Functioning Skills and Handwriting
- Pencil Pressure Simple Handwriting Trick
- Sandpaper Letter Formation Trick
- Boxes and Dots Handwriting Method
- Easy Trick for Tripod Pencil Grasp
- Handwriting Puzzles Spacing Awareness Activity
- Easy Trick for Helping with Letter Formation and Sloppy Writing
- Transfer Paper for Spacing, Line Awareness, Letter Formation, Pencil Pressure
- Graph Paper Letter Size, Line Awareness, Spatial Organization
- Sky Ground Writing Method
- DIY Letter Strip Desk Ruler
- Letter Construction Method for Accurate Letter Formation
- Desk Positioning and Posture While Writing
- Visual Processing Checklist for Handwriting
- Handwriting Accommodations for the Classroom
- Fine Motor Play Dough Intrinsic Muscle Strength
- Rainbow Hundreds Chart
- Pencil Control Exercises
- Pre-Writing Handwriting Lines
- Handwriting and Visual Perception with Tangrams
- Creative Ways to Work on Line Awareness
- A Complete Guide to Handwriting
The Handwriting Book covers everything you need to know about handwriting, guided by development and focused on function. This digital resource is is the ultimate resource for tips, strategies, suggestions, and information to support handwriting development in kids.
The Handwriting Book breaks down the functional skill of handwriting into developmental areas. These include developmental progression of pre-writing strokes, fine motor skills, gross motor development, sensory considerations, and visual perceptual skills. Each section includes strategies and tips to improve these underlying areas.
- Strategies to address letter and number formation and reversals
- Ideas for combining handwriting and play
- Activities to practice handwriting skills at home
- Tips and strategies for the reluctant writer
- Tips to improve pencil grip
- Tips for sizing, spacing, and alignment with overall improved legibility
Click here to grab your copy of The Handwriting Book today.
Colleen Beck, OTR/L has been an occupational therapist since 2000, working in school-based, hand therapy, outpatient peds, EI, and SNF. Colleen created The OT Toolbox to inspire therapists, teachers, and parents with easy and fun tools to help children thrive. Read her story about going from an OT making $3/hour (after paying for kids’ childcare) to a full-time OT resource creator for millions of readers. Want to collaborate? Send an email to contact@theottoolbox.com.
