Handwriting Patterns Book

This is a first, simple handwriting patterns book helping young children to develop the good pencil control necessary for good handwriting.

Before children can form letters correctly, they need to be confident moving a pencil in the basic directions and shapes that letters are built from. This little book takes children through those movements step by step, using fun, purposeful activities rather than dry repetition, so that pencil control feels like play rather than a chore. It's a lovely first introduction to pencil work for children who are not yet ready for letter formation, or a gentle warm-up activity for those who are.

Order and steps:
Each page has a fun activity to help young children learn to control the pencil.

Starting with straight lines, they can take bees to flowers and cars along the road, and draw stems on flowers and branches on trees.

Moving onto curved lines, they can take the horses to grass, and fly jet planes through the sky!

For zig zag lines, students can bounce a ball, go upstairs, and draw a pattern of needles on a fir tree.

For circles, they can draw balls, and then a pattern of lines and circles with bats and balls.

We then move onto more complex patterns and curves, finishing with some letter-shape movements: sticks, circles, v, w, o, u and c shapes - laying the groundwork for confident, correctly-formed handwriting later on.

What is included:
1 PDF.
There are 21 pages of patterns.

Printing and paper
Each page is just right for little hands, at A5 size. Print 2 pages per A4 sheet and either fold and staple (if you print as a booklet, flip on the short edge), or cut into 2 pages.

More
This book can be used alongside our First Handwriting Book, helping children to form the letters correctly once they are ready to move on to writing letter shapes themselves. Between the two, children build a firm, happy foundation for handwriting long before formal letter practice begins.