Encouraging Children To Do Writing

As I mentioned in my blog post a few weeks back about Encouraging Children to Read, it’s not only his reading Tyler is reluctant to do, it’s also writing. This got me thinking about what I could do to encourage him to write and want to write.

I think it helps when you start by making it fun, get them to write about something they are into like football players names or their toys names. Books with lots of bight pictures with space to write help and stickers as a reward for work well done is great for younger children. When Tyler started out writing, I used to do sheets with dots in the shape of letters to help him get the feel of the shapes. Now he writes on his own, but gets bored and fed up easily. We decided to make a pencil pot together that would help him keep his pens and pencils where he wanted them. And hopefully encourage him to keep them there.

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Making a Pencil Pot

First of all I got out all the materials needed. A jar or tin, some paper, pencils, stickers, Scotch Magic Tape and scissors. There are optional items like wrapping paper, glitter and anything else you’d like to use to decorate.

Tyler wanted to decorate his pencil pot himself so he opted to colour, draw and put stickers onto a bit of paper rather than using wrapping paper, which would work equally as well. He cut the paper to size before adding his design.

As you can see he had lots of fun drawing, colouring, sticking and writing on his paper.

We then stuck the covering around the jar using the Scotch Magic Tape. A tin would work just as well.

Once it has been stuck down around the sides, top and bottom, you are ready to stick in your pens and pencils. What do you think?

Tyler was chuffed with it, so much so he went straight to writing out the numbers he’d to practice for his homework. Hooray.

So far it’s encoraging him to not only do his homework, but also keep his pens and pencils out of his baby sister’s mouth, win win in my eyes. What do you think? Do you have any tips?

If you are looking for more crafts using Scotch Magic Tape, they have some great ones over on their Facebook Page.