Site of the Day: Amazing Handwriting Worksheet Maker

Getting kids to practice their printing and cursive is essential to eventual mastery, especially for kids with motor challenges that make figuring out just how to move that pencil tricky. But getting kids to actually sit down and do that writing work can be a major battle ... especially for kids with motor challenges that make figuring out just how to move that pencil tricky. The harder the work is, the more your child needs it, the more impossible it is to get that practice going.

One way to help is to make customized writing sheets, and this Handwriting Worksheet Maker helps you do just that. Make some with your child's name, so he can learn to copy and trace those important letters without you having to draw the dots. Make some using words with letters that are hard for your child, to get the most out of practice. Or make some using words with letters that are easy for your child, to give a nice confidence boost.

Most fun of all, make some with really silly words and phrases to get your child giggling as he writes. Have her make up an outrageous phrase to copy. Pick lines out of favorite books or TV shows. There's no law that says writing practice has to be rote. Whatever brings them to the table is what works.