Summer holiday activities to do at home with reluctant writers

  • Painter’s brushes and a bucket of water on paved surface or wall to encourage large movements and mark making
  • Playdough and putty- squeezing, cutting, rolling and twisting- excellent for building strength in fingers and building up to tripod grips hold for pencils and pens.
  • Busy things app- excellent letter formation games for children working on pre-cursive scripts. Offering a free 28 day trial https://www.busythings.co.uk/schools/curriculum/phonics
  • Postcards from holiday- a drawing, name or any emergent mark making sent home to be rediscovered when back at home.
  • Rolls of paper on the floor taped down with masking tape- using to make roads and railway tracks for vehicles or maps or  pathways for playmobile figures.
  • Role play writing activities- shopping list, letter to granny, doctor’s prescription, café menu ( lots of great resources on twinkly) this will encourage writing for a creative purpose. https://www.twinkl.co.uk/search?q=writing+templates+for+role+play