HELP ME PLEASE

[missmimsical]

Before I continue with this train wreck, could someone please tell me how to improve this? Techniques, general ideas of how this can look less like crap and more like an activity one would be okay (if not proud) giving to 4-5 year old students to work on? In like... school

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[sra33]

What about having 4-5 year-old's write the letter P? I mean I guess you could... I do coloring books...

But honestly, that looks like the normal workbook page I had when I was learning to write letters... ?

I really don't know how I'm supposed to be helping...

[missmimsical]

Yes, the idea is that this is their first time writing the letter P, so they need the little lines to follow for the first, oh, 10 times they do it. So that they don't just make lines in any which direction because WHOO PRETTY LOOPY SHAPES LOOK!

I just wonder if there's a way to make them look less like a spazz wrote them.

[sra33]

it DOESN'T look like a spaz wrote them. it looks like the normal workbooks I've ever used as a child... :\

You're talking about the dotted lines, right? I always thought that was intentional... A guide to go by, and not the actual P itself, that's what you're supposed to write in as the student...?

[3valve]

That definitely looks like the sheets I gave my 5-12 year olds, and nobody complained about my handwriting! However, there are some computer-based options if you feel like it needs to be perfect:

This is a good dotted-line font.

This site has lots of practice sheets pre-made for you.

This site will let you decide which letters and styles you like and then make a worksheet for you.

Hope that helps!
P.S. My younger students hated handwriting worksheets unless there was a colouring element to them. Also, that way the quicker students can be doing something (besides bothering each other) while the slower ones keep writing.

[missmimsical]

Very many thank yous!!

This is the second part of an activity. They only have 2 lines of tracing the letter P. The first part involves cutting pictures and sticking them in the correct box ("starts with P" and "does not start with P"). The pictures are good for colouring so the ones who are done first can go colour the pictures that have a P somewhere in the word but NOT at the beginning.

THANK YOU!