Skip to content
The Happy Handwriter
0
  • Home
  • About
    • The Author
    • Fine Motor Skills
    • Why is Handwriting Still Important?
    • Muscle Mania®
    • The Wall Model®
    • Trademarks
  • Blog
  • Contact
    • My Account
    • Learner Profile
  • Shop
    • All Products
    • Grade 000 (3–4 yrs)
    • Grade 00 (4–5 yrs)
    • Grade R/0 (5–6 yrs)
    • Grade 1 (6-7 yrs)
    • Grade 2 (7–8 yrs)
    • Grade 3 (8–9 yrs)
    • Online Courses
    • Fine Motor
    • Handwriting Skills
    • Homeschooling
    • Classroom Resources
    • Therapist’s Corner
0

hand strengthening

Fine Motor Activities for Home. Make a Fine Motor Pizza!

fine motor skills activities for home, fine motor activities for parent to do at home, fine motor activities for home, home activities for fine motor skills, home activities to improve fine motor, what exercises improve fine motor skills, how can I improve fine motor skills, how can I improve fine motor skills for handwriting, home activities to improve fine motor skill development

Who doesn’t love a pizza?!  This fine motor pizza is going to target the foundations for pencil grip and ultimately pencil control.  This is the all-in-one pizza with all the fine motor toppings included!  Perfect for fine motor activities for …

Read more

Categories Fine Motor Skills Tags cutting skills, fine motor groups, fine motor skills, hand strengthening, pencil control, pencil grasp, scissor skills

Development of Scissor Skills

A blog post about scissor skills development with scissor skills activities downloads.

For years I have stubbornly refused to give age norms for the development of scissor skills milestones. This is because I firmly believe that following and mastering each developmental sequence is way more important than the age at which they …

Read more

Categories Fine Motor Skills Tags cutting skills, fine motor skills, hand strengthening, left handed scissor skills, pencil control, scissor skills

Handwriting Warm Ups Squeeze Ball Download

Download these fun handwriting warm ups with a rhyme and a squeeze ball. They are the best for engaging kids in handwriting warm up exercises!

You can never have too many handwriting warm ups!  You can be sure when you use these handwriting warm up exercises, your children are going to have a blast and you can know you are targeting the in-hand muscles they …

Read more

Categories Fine Motor Skills, Handwriting Development Tags fine motor groups, fine motor skills, hand strengthening, handwriting, handwriting warm ups

Fine Motor Practise. Colouring and the Broken Crayon Debate.

Do broken crayons help with colouring and fine motor skill practise?

There are a lot of opinions as to whether we should be asking our children to colour pictures and colour within the lines.  I am not going to jump into that contentious minefield here!  I am, however, going to focus …

Read more

Categories Fine Motor Skills Tags fine motor skills, hand strengthening, pencil grasp, pre-writing

Cutting Skills Development. Cutting Sheets for Preschoolers

A blog post exploring cutting skills development, how to improve cutting skills and how to choose cutting sheets for preschoolers.

Cutting is the bomb for developing pencil grip and pencil control for handwriting.  If we can get our children to both master and enjoy cutting, we will go a long way to establishing the muscle and motor foundations for pencil …

Read more

Categories Fine Motor Skills Tags cutting skills, fine motor skills, hand strengthening, left handed scissor skills, scissor skills

Valentine’s Day Fine Motor Activities

valentines fine motor activities, valentine’s day fine motor skill, Valentines fine motor, valentine’s day fine motor for activities pre-schoolers, valentine’s day fine motor preschool, preschool valentine fine motor activities, valentine’s day fine motor activities for pre-schoolers

There is little doubt our techno kids need opportunities for hand strengthening and fine motor development.  Using special days and holidays can go a long way to engage our children in the very activities they need, without them realising we …

Read more

Categories Fine Motor Skills Tags buntys wall, fine motor skills, hand strengthening, pre-writing, scissor skills

Fine Motor Skills Activities for Christmas!

fine motor skills development, fine motor skills activities

Christmas comes around every year and it is a time when families can draw together and focus on the  meaning of the season.  Along with that comes all the excitement of the celebration.  I have put together some fine motor …

Read more

Categories Fine Motor Skills Tags fine motor skills, hand strengthening, scissor skills
  • FAQ
  • Terms & Conditions
  • Disclaimer
  • Returns

© 2025 The Happy Handwriter, The Wall & Bunty McDougall. The Content On This Site May Not Be Reproduced, Republished Or Mirrored In Any Shape Or Form.

Manage Cookie Consent
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Manage options Manage services Manage {vendor_count} vendors Read more about these purposes
View preferences
{title} {title} {title}