At-Home Handwriting Support Activities

Here are some activities to support with handwriting:

1. Start with shapes and support your kiddo with mastering these first as they are the foundational skills for letters and numbers:

   • Tracing shapes

   • Dot to dot shapes

   • Copying shapes

   • Drawing shapes independently when asked

2. Move to letters/numbers when the child is ready and has mastered shapes

   • Tracing

   • Dot to dot

   • Copying

   • Drawing independently when asked

Other Supplemental Ideas:

• Draw on a whiteboard with big shapes and letters/numbers

• Draw shapes and letters/numbers in shaving cream or salt on a cookie sheet/baking sheet

• Paint letters/shapes/numbers

• Draw shapes and letters in the air with your finger, hands, arms, feet

• Coloring between the lines

• Cutting

• Arts and Crafts

• Legos

• Mazes

• Dot-to-dot

• Puzzles

• Board Games

• Catching/throwing/dribbling a ball

• Other visual perceptual activities

• Other visual motor activities