Handwriting warm ups

These fantastic handwriting exercises provide easy-to-do fine motor exercises for children to prepare for handwriting! Quick and easy to download.

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Handwriting Warm Ups. Handwriting Warm Up Cards provide illustrations that were designed to be easily copied by children. The movements and exercises can be used at the beginning (to warm up), throughout (stay focused), and at the end of a writing session (relax). These Warm Up cards can be utilized in a variety of home, school, and community based settings. ToolsToGrowOT.com

These handwriting warm ups will get those fingers moving so dexterity and endurance is possible during writing and fine motor tasks.

As the school year progresses and demands for writing goes up, you might notice your child getting fatigued when writing. There are many causes for a decline in the quality of handwriting, but doing some warm up exercises for the hands and upper limbs before writing can help your child sustain writing for longer periods. It is always advisable to seek the advice of a qualified Occupational Therapist if you notice that your child has an aversion to handwriting.

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Handwriting Warm Up Cards, exercises, tracing worksheets, and resources as an intervention for Occupational Therapy to address handwriting skills.

Get those little hands ready for writing! ✍️ This fun tracing activity helps develop fine motor skills by practicing the letter P. Perfect for preschoolers or anyone learning to write. Print, trace, and watch those letters magically appear! 🌟

Hand warm ups before writing

No, I’m not going to tell you to join a gym! But similar to an athlete’s warm-up and stretches before diving into their sport, artists should exercise their drawing or painting muscles before starting a painting. Here are some quick 10-15 minute exercises you can do to loosen your hands so they can perform to their b

Choose Printable handwriting worksheet sets by style. Some sets include handwriting animations. These high quality worksheets are made by home school veteran, Donna Young.

Good warm ups.

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My Kids LOVE these! Free Pencil Control Worksheets! Perfect for Daily Warm-up Exercises. Includes lowercase & uppercase letters.

Great handout about "pencil aerobics" for handwriting prep. A fav! From Diane Saunders at http://dsaundersot.webs.com/Handwriting%20Warmups.pdf

Today in the cursive handwriting series on The OT Toolbox, we’re talking all about gross motor activities and gross motor cursive writing warm-up exercises that can be used to work on and teach cursive letter formation. These are fun activities that can be used with kids who haven’t even yet attempted to write their first ... Read more

Get the muscles and fingers ready for writing with these handwriting warm up activities for kids.

I've previously written about the Developmental Stage of Drawing as I find these stages in development endlessly fascinating. I recently discovered the Developmental Stage of Writing. I love this chart below as it isn't about what age your child is, but rather where your child is developmentally. It can help us understand where our child is at and what stage they are going into. Source: First seen at Destination Kindergarten, also available at West Hartford Public Schools. My child has just…