What does this resource contain?

This resource features worksheets focusing on graphomotoric scaling exercises. Characters transition from large to small and vice versa, fostering handwriting improvement and preparing for drawing and painting. Ideal for children, these exercises serve as warm-ups for writing, promoting motor skills, hand-eye coordination, and learning competencies. The worksheets are part of our ‘My first book’ series and can be colored in individually or assembled together later as a book. The material includes two title pages and instructions that show you how to make such a book easily and quickly. Using the blank title page, children can put together their own book from the various titles from the ‘My first book’ series.

How to enhance handwriting skills?

Handwriting skills involve complex psychomotor processes, emphasizing practicing individual movements and applying them to diverse tasks. Motor skills for writing involve complex psychomotoric processes. Among other things, it’s important that individual movements are not only practiced to perfection in isolation but that, after some repetition, they’re then applied to other, varied tasks (such as by scaling up or down). In this way, you learn to apply the movements to other, similar tasks. Repetition is especially important with graphomotoric exercises. You can only attain a certain level of skill by drawing a lot and thereby developing finger and hand dexterity. It’s best to start with colored pencils, later you can use lead pencils and then also felt-tip pens. The drawing of simple graphic characters here is a preliminary step to writing. The characters should remain between the lines. As you go along, the characters should get smaller and then larger again. The proportions and the distance between the characters remain the same. Frequent repetition trains the fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination and stamina.