Make Your Own Sandpaper Letters
Sandpaper letters and numbers are traditionally used in Montessori schools to
help children learn the shapes, formation and write way to form the letters by
feel. Start by guiding your child's forefinger around the letters in the way
that you write them.
Find our letter templates here
Make your own sandpaper letters using our templates and a bit of patience!
Simply print, hold securely on top of a sheet of fine grade sandpaper, and cut
out. You will need a craft knife to cut the insides of the letters out, and
either a cutting board or sheets of thick cardboard as a safe surface. This is
an adult job!
We've used our sandpaper letters as they are, placing them on our large
handwriting lines printout to make words.
Large handwriting lines
printout
Note: Montessori sandpaper letters are cursive. The letters are mounted on
stiff card (pale blue for vowels and pale pink for consonants). Lower case
letters are introduced first, and the phonetic sound of the letter is introduced
at the same time as the child traces the letter with his/her finger. You can
read more about Montessori sandpaper letters
here.
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