Hi, I am a mom of 4 year old girl and she is not taking interest in writing, coloring, tracing She cannot grip pencil in proper way. Will anybody give me suggestions for this???
Something I learnt teaching my son is the best most easiest way to teach him is showing him, like if I repeatedly do something or if i wont to hold his interest in something I first make myself love it and then I get to do it again and again. Likewise happened when teaching him to write and color. He was so into writing before I even thought of teaching him to write and by his 3rd yr he knows how to write all the letter in the alphabet. and his coloring was excellent at the age of 2.5yrs! but lately I lost interest and thus he lost it too.
Show him when you write, take a habit of writing out your thoughts on a book, and do it while you have given him pencil/crayon and books to write. Buy huge colouring books and choose one page for you and one for her and you colour your page and ask her to colour hers. If she at first dont feel like colouring, you colour her side too. Repeatedly doing this will show her that you love colouring and she would want to do it too.
You see kids are like parrots/monkeys at this age. and their favourite person to imitate is mom… take advantage of this while you can because before long they will wont to do their own thing!
very much agreed to kyles mom
plus that i very much repeatedly says to her that E’s work is very good and i love her painting. i some times give stars for her work and show other members of the family. that keep her interst
I do the same thing - tell my daughter she is doing great, draw with her and also let her see me write things - even if its just lists. She’s only 2.5 years old and pretends to write all the time - her fine motor is not good enough for me to teach her how to write letters yet though.
Maybe your daughter would prefer free drawing to colouring in - provide lots of paper and also different writing materials - they don’t have to use crayons only, try pencils, kokis, pens even pastels and also paint. MAybe do cut and stick art a bit too - anything to get her doing something on a piece of paper and finding it fun.
If you can get her in a group where they do activities she will also progress faster - my daughters colouring has definitely improved since she is doing sunday school activities with children slightly older than her. Let her see you colouring in the lines, but perhaps also draw more messily than you usually would as she may be unable to stay in the lines and get frustrated by it - show her its ok to colour outside the lines and gradually she’ll get better.
Good luck.
As for holding a pencil correctly - don’t force the issue. Show her how to do it correctly and if you see even any improvement then praise a lot. Do not comment if she is still doing it wrong, just show her again the next day (not the next minute!) and then praise again if she manages. As for totally correctly I wouldn’t worry about that. I do not hold a pencil correct;lyy and yet manage to write faster and neater than most people I know.
Thank you so much for replying me and for your great ideas I will definitely try these things inshallah she will improve.
Any other ideas if u have share it with me please
Hey
My daughter’s teachers recommended a triangle pencil for writing at this age. Faber castle and apsara have those versions. instead of having hexagonal or circle shape, the lead is covered by triangle shape wood.
encourage her to scribble more and more. the more the child scribbles the better the grip on pencil.
Also there are books available in the market where kids can join dots and then color inside ( not join the numbers or alphabets but just simple dots.) I let her do lots of it and she loved tracing.
there are lots of tracing worksheets available free on DTKS and googlekids, check those out.
Garima
Thanks gary
Kumon workbooks are great for teaching this sort of stuff.