Handwriting Practice

I have had some Montessori-type sandpaper letters for a while but couldn't get Kiddo interested in tracing them with his finger, which helps develop motor skills for handwriting. Recently, Steph posted about how her daughter plays a knock-knock game with them. I gave it a whirl and Kiddo occupied himself for quite some time, going through all the upper and lower case and all 30 number cards (when he gets on a roll he doesn't like to stop!) In fact, he pretty quickly dispensed with the "knock-knock" part and just turned the letters over.

All I had to do was sit on the floor with baby and correct his tracing now and again. Excellent.

He has also been leaving me alone engaged with these magnetic number tracers Mormor gave him.