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January 27, 2018

15 effective letter formation techniques for 3-4 year olds!

Are you homeschooling and wondering how to go about starting or improving your child’s handwriting or letter formation? Do you just want to help your child reach their full potential by giving them a head start from home? As a former Primary School Teacher turned homeschooling mama, I’m sharing 15 fun, creative, tried and tested tips to get you started with your child’s letter formation and hand writing.

1. A letter or 2 a week goes a long way!

At age 3.5 Ammarah used to get frustrated at writing and getting the formation wrong. She would give up and say “I can’t do it!” Truth is she shouldn’t have been expected to have got it straight away. So we changed our way. We planned out our weeks and decided to stick to learning a letter a week – learning the letter formation and sound too. Read my post on  ‘How I taught my child to read!’ for more on our phonics learning and the order in which we learnt our letters. Below are pictures of our treasure hunt find which helped get us started on our phonics and that’s how we focussed in the formation of one letter a week. If you’re child is ages 4-5, they could probably work on 2 letters a week, however work with your child’s ability, you know them best. There is no one set way to do this. Work at their pace, but have a break for some days before you begin the next letter.

Tip: Don’t try to teach letter formation for all the letters in one sitting! Yes it may still work, but the question is will your child enjoy the repetitive nature or writing this way at such a young age? You want to nurture the fun of writing into them so that they pick up a pen and write down the letters they enjoyed writing over a natural course of time.

2. Model how to write for your child

Show them how its done! This is probably a very obvious tip but essential to include in this list. Let your child see where the letter starts when you write. Does it start at the top? Does the letter formation begin above the line etc? Also write it big, and write slow! Below, we wrote on our tablet, I started by showing Ammarah how the letter was formed and she attempted after me. I added some dots for the letter S initially but she seemed happy to write without the extra help. All her efforts were praised because a perfect letter formation is not essential at all right now!

Tip: Don’t just have pre-preared sheets or dry-wipe marker booklets ready for your child and expect them to know how to form the letters, they need to see it written first. Also using trace sheets may limit them to thinking they can only write perfectly when only using tracing sheets. You want them to be confident in writing without the tracing aids eventually. Take your time and see what works for your child. When you feel they are ready, remove the dotted trace sheets and let them write!

3. Letter formation talk

This, for us has been super effective in helping Ammarah form her letters correctly. I have often heard her say “Round like a c, up, down and flick” when writing the letter ‘a’ for example. We made up the letter formation talk and it works for us. Here’s a few examples for how we use letter formation talk.

Tip: You can find formation rhymes online, but some can be wordy. Make up yours together with your children and you’ll find it’ll be easy to remember too.

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4. Tracing on backs and in the air!

The children used to enjoy forming letters on each others back with their fingers just after I showed them how how the letter was formed. In fact it became a bed-time game for Ammarah and I too. She traced a letter on my back and I had to guess which one it was. We also practise up in the air. This was all in preparation before actually using a pen or chalk to write the letter. As we traced in the air, we said our letter formation talk to help us remember.

 

5. Chalk-writing & painting on chalk!

We then moved on to the chalk board (You can also go outside and use chunky chalk) where I would show Ammarah how I form the letter again. Then she would try. At first she found it difficult. So I formed the same letter a few times and then let her trace over the chalk writing with a wet paint brush. This way worked best for us so we used it throughout our letter formation journey. After she had a little practise, she told me she wanted to try forming the letter with chalk again and her attempts got better and better as the weeks went on.

6. Salt Tray writing

Salt tray writing has been another really fun way to write practise letter writing. We used an empty large Ferrero Roche box, sprinkled in some salt (you can also use coloured sand – or put a piece of coloured paper in the tray before you sprinkle the salt) This sensory method of letter forming can be really effective with your younger children. Once you’ve traced your finger in the salt tray, you can easily shake the tray to start over. It’s fun, children can make the errors and know how quickly they can start over.

Tip: Don’t let your children get frustrated over trying to get things perfect. Applaud and praise all their efforts as the last thing you want is a child who feels they cannot do it!

7. Cotton Bud or Q-tip Writing!

We love using paint for more than just our art sessions. So we used Cotton buds, dipped them in paint and traced over letters and then finish with an attempt to try forming the letter ourselves too. The fine motor skills involved in holding the cotton-buds and ensuring there is enough paint each time they attempted to trace or write the letter was a perfect combination of fun learning.

8. Finger painting!

Another sensory favourite – Finger painting. So we used to dab our finger in paint and form the letters by tracing the tips of our fingers all the way to form the letters. But our actual favourite way is to make dots with our fingers all the way along the letter. Show your child where to start and let them see you show them the correct letter formation.

Tip: You don’t need to hold their finger and help them form, let them try themselves and see how they improve as they do this every week!

 

9. Glue and sand!

This is always fun especially with coloured sand! The children can use cotton buds or squeezy glue bottles and form the letter with glue first. Then simply sprinkle with sand and shake off. It is a brilliant way to allow you to see how your child forms their letters straight away.

Tip: Write out the letters in pencil first, and show your child what to do if this is the first time you do this!

10. Pipe cleaner letter formation!

Use pipe cleaners to form simpler letters like s, t, k, w, v, z, m, n, a, l, o etc. You can use your letter flashcards as your guide. It’s great for their fine motor skills and lots of fun too!

Tip: Let your child try place the pipe cleaners on top of the flash card letter to see how the pipe cleaner could be manipulated to form the letter

11. Road Themed letter formation

When I saw these on twinkl – I had to download them. I love these. you can easily make them too by sticking masking tape to form the letter and drawing black road markings inside the tape. The kids love driving their little cars through the letter formation road!

Tip: Laminate them – they can be used over and over again!

12. Play dough letter mats

Using play dough as a fantastic, creative way of forming letters. Not only is it sensory play, but it is something the children can do on their own confidently. If you haven’t made these already, make some a5 sized playdough mats, by using word Art to bubble write each letter of the alphabet. Print 2 letters per page, cut and laminate. I used coloured paper to draw the letters on in my early stages of letter formation with my Ammarah.

Tip: You have to laminate these in order to be able to use them again and again!

13. Icing letters

As Ammarah and her friends became more and more confident in letter formation, we really challenged them the day we made biscuits and decided to ice them. They wanted to write the initials of their names to know which cookies they had helped make. Now I don’t know about some of you, but icing itself is super difficult, but the children did a fantastic job! We even brought in some magnet letters to remind them how the letters are formed.

Tip: You can also buy icing writing pens, they work perfectly and the right size for little hands!

14. Letter craft

This can also be an effective way of helping forming letters, especially as the letter craft would be directly linked to its sound. For example, decorating the letter z with black zebra stripes would be a fun and creative way to help you child enjoy working on letter formation and remembering the letter sound too. Here are a few examples of the ones we did and thoroughly enjoyed!

 

15. Wipe-dry letter formation sheets

Wipe-dry letter books can be found in many book shops but usually follow the alphabet order. I managed to make my own wipe dry letter formation sheets in the families of letter formation order. So our first family is the family of ‘c.’ All the letters that begin like a ‘c’ and so on. We have found these really useful when practising our letter formation review at the end of our journey! I’m giving these FREE to help get you started on your children’s letter formation journey. 🙂

 

 

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by Salma Mehajabeen on January 29, 2018

Maa shaa allah i loved the pipe cleaner activity and the icing activity the most. In shaa allah will come back to this page when my daughter reaches that sta

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by hafsah on January 31, 2018

Ah thank-you-I’m glad it’s helped ~ thanks for stopping by 🙂

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by Dilraz Kunnummal on January 29, 2018

we have the chalkboard sticker at home, and my son loves watching us write on that.
As yet, he is too young to start writing himself but I cant wait 🙂

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by hafsah on January 31, 2018

Oh that’s sounds fab mA- I can imagine that chalk board sticker being so much fun!

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by Farhana on January 29, 2018

So many ways to get the hang of writing a letter! MashaAllah!

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by hafsah on January 31, 2018

Yes the list is endless – these are the ones we found most fun for us- thanks for stopping by 🙂

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by Lubna on January 30, 2018

Me and my lil one use to play a lot….writing on the back, in the palm and in the air….though she is a school goer now…we still learn big spelling like this…it is fun…love these creative ideas to teach kids….

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by K.T. Lynn on January 31, 2018

Wow this post was a stroll down memory lane! Play dough letters seems like so much fun! This is useful for parents and elementary school teachers alike. Thanks!

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by hafsah on January 31, 2018

Your very welcome and Thank you! Yes they are fun – the concentration and excitement of the kids during play dough letters is priceless- alhamdulillah!

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by Madhiya on February 1, 2018

I worked as an assistant teacher back when I was in A levels and they used to teach kids letter formation using sand. I didn’t know there are so many other letter formation techniques. Thanks for sharing!

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by ThrifDeeDubai on February 1, 2018

Aww such cute ideas! This reminds me of back when I was teaching, I love the icing one, definetly a double benefit….. learning & eating 😂

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by Aleeza S on October 30, 2018

Very simple ideas. Learning with an element of fun is always effective learning.

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by hafsah on October 30, 2018

Thank you! Yes it’s always more fun to teach this way too

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by Ann Marie on December 12, 2022

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3. Birds 🐦 - we contemplated whether we wanted to put up a bird feeder or just a bird bath - and a bird bath it was with a solar powered fountain (both bird bath and fountain bought on Amazon) we love watching the same crow come again and again and even pigeons perched on the bird bath.
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4. Planters and support structures - we bought many of our planters from @bm_stores with the exception of the wooden arch, wooden planters (bought on Amazon). Stepping stones, bark and the wooden borders all bought @bm_stores at really good prices. 
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I was so glad the kids were up for re-potting my plants and they did such a wonderful job mA. We also included some of our fruit peels in the garden bed which is yet to be finished- but Alhamdulillah all in all a wonderful afternoon with even better company! Who doesn’t enjoy a whole day outside in nature!!?
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The life cycle of a plant 🌱 🌼 . Simple acti The life cycle of a plant 🌱 🌼 
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Simple activity on finding the stages of the life cycle of a dandelion - the girls went into the garden to find the different stages. They enjoyed learning about seed dispersal and found dandelion growing in different places and we discussed how the seeds could have reached on top of a roof or the guttering. 
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The girls had to then write the stages from the perspective of the flower which they actually enjoyed! Same activity just differentiated by supporting Hibah, whilst Ammarah worked independently.
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Dinosaurs have always been a favourite of Hibah’ Dinosaurs have always been a favourite of Hibah’s and now that she enjoys reading somewhat (Alhamdulillah) she wanted to re-read her dinosaur book and from that we went into some spoken poetry and then the start of her poem which was very catchy and we all joined in! 
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Hibah (who just turned 8) has been a bit of reluctant reader. Although she likes books and likes listening to stories, she just wasn’t as bothered with reading. Maths on the other hand was more her thing but as time went on, she had to read word problems or questions in order to understand the question and that’s when she was fine to read. So, for so long her journey towards reading has been one in which she navigated herself mainly because I didn’t want to put her off reading altogether, so we went at her pace. It certainly was very different to her elder sister, Ammarah’s journey. Having said that she’s picked up words faster and comprehends well. She’s full of creative ideas and never falls short in plot twists and interesting characters for her oral or written short stories! Will be sharing more on this soon. 
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Currently, Nusaybah is nearly 3 months old Alhamdulillah- we are adjusting to life with 3 kids. She’s curious already - the girls read to her and want to include her in everything they do when relevant. They ask if she will be homeschooled too and calculate how old they will be when she is 3 or 5 etc. 
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After our germination experiment last week we had After our germination experiment last week we had to look at the ayats in the Quran where Allah talks about the splitting of the seed.
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Ammarah’s extra task was to write a poem based on what we found out from the Quran. A lot of the poems on nature that we have are absolutely beautiful but we need reminding that the beauty and design of nature is all from Allah. And so we reflected on the ayat from the Quran which prompted us to ponder upon the seeds that we sow. And so she included it in her poem. 
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We loved using the beautiful Connecting with Allah book by @zacandaslam as well. Swipe to see the prompts and poetry plan.
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How often do we connect with Allah through nature? Do we remember that is Allah who decides if our seeds will grow each year? Have you had a bad harvest one year? Don’t let that stop you from growing the following year - subhanAllah our rizq is from Allah! 
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Sometimes you just need to have a vision and the i Sometimes you just need to have a vision and the intention and then say Bismillah. Allah facilitates Alhamdulillah. 
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This vision for a secret garden (essentially a garden space for us to be immersed in nature contemplating and reflecting on Allah’s creation - our very own sit spot) emerged in Ramadan during the Outdoor Madrassah Course I took. Unable to trek to a park with a new born, I wanted a sit spot in the garden and attract more bees and butterflies and essentially wildlife by planting our favourite plants and flowers. Being in a city/town with concrete buildings we need the greenery and to be outdoors in nature to really ponder on Allah’s signs! 
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Germinating Seeds 🌱 . In our homeschool this Germinating Seeds 🌱 
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In our homeschool this past week, we’ve been looking at seeds. Finding seeds in our spice drawers and larder and looking at ayaat from the Quran about seeds. (More on that soon) 
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The girls spotted seed dispersal outside with dandelions growing in drains 😅 and our sycamore tree sending its seeds all the way to our patio (we’ve seen sycamore seedlings 🌱 in our patio pots as we were weeding) To see the process of splitting seeds, we’ve been doing this germinating experiment. Swipe to see the differentiated experiment write up.
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Kitchen Garden 🪴 . We’ve had a nice slow pac Kitchen Garden 🪴 
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We’ve had a nice slow paced week to enjoy the time sowing seeds and prepare our kitchen garden on the patio. There’s been a lot of rain though 🌧️ so we’ve had to move some pots back and forth 😅 praying we get some crops this year. It’s worked out perfectly with a nearly 3 month old - we are getting there slowly Alhamdulillah. 
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Swipe to see our progress and for the girls I made a simple kitchen garden diary to keep track of the growth of their seeds each week. 
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And just like the dua of Ibrahim (as) we ask Allah And just like the dua of Ibrahim (as) we ask Allah to accept this from  us as sadaqah jaariyah and help strengthen our children’s love for Islam. 
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Swipe to see more of the inside! This activity book is a combination of all our popular tried and tested Hajj activities. There will be a lot of cutting and creating, keeping your little ones busy in time for Dhul Hijjah. We suggest purchasing the book before the start of Dhul Hijjah so you can prepare the activities together before hand and enjoy in the blessed 10 days of Dhul Hijjah together.
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It’s the perfect gift for your friends and families and ideally even one Activity book per family will be enough.
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Link in bio to make your purchase or visit www.mamateachesme.com to purchase a digital version today! Members can access it for free! DM me if you’d like to become a member. 
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Bismillah - Introducing … 🌟 MY FIRST HAJJ AC Bismillah - Introducing …

🌟 MY FIRST HAJJ ACTIVITY BOOK 🕋 🌟 
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Really excited to be sharing our latest publication! Here’s a first look at our new book mashaAllah and a description below:
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The blessed days of Dhul-Hijjah are a great time to nurture your children to understand the importance of Hajj. This unique Hajj Activity Book takes your child through the history of Hajj, its rituals, plus activities for them to do in the 10 days of Dhul Hijjah as they count down to Eid ul Adha. What’s more, we’ve packed this activity book with a Hajj board game, a memory game and even activities where your child can help the pilgrims prepare for Hajj!

It’s the perfect My First Hajj Activity Book all in one space for the whole family! Created for 5-10 year olds.

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Now available to purchase as a physical book on www.mamateachesme.com 
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The digital version of this book is now on offer for this weekend holiday! 
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