Pipe Cleaner Letters
Chances are, your three- or four-year-old isn’t going to be really excited about sitting down to trace dotted letters from a workbook. If forced, a child probably could learn using worksheets, but why not make learning fun? Instead of using the traditional paper and pencil to teach children how to make letters, get creative and have your child practice using craft materials or anything else you can think of. Play dough, modeling clay, and anything else that can be bent, twisted, or shaped to form lines and curves is an ideal material. Try the following activity at home:
Buy a bag of pipe cleaners and use wire cutters to cut them into four or five different sizes. With a printed alphabet in front of him, show your child how to make an uppercase and a lowercase “e”. Let him pick a different letter to try and make using the pipe cleaners. Use the wire cutters, if necessary, to cut pieces so that letters look fairly accurate. There is no need to go in alphabetical order. Using the pipe cleaners to write names and short words is also a great way to see how letters are put together to form words and that some words begin with an uppercase letter. Try not to let your child make words out of all uppercase letters, however, as this can cause confusion later.
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Written by BRWI Staff on June 30, 2009
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