i dabble in the handwriting without tears curriculum. mostly i am fascinated by the desire to make letter writing easily successful for children. one thing we do that is handwriting-withou- tears-ish is give craft sticks or wide gross grain ribbon strips to form the letters. here we have a 5 stick capital E:
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great ideas, congrats.
Some great ideas here. I have been hearing about the Handwriting without tears program and may need to look into it. I certainly have lots of loose parts that could be used to make letters.