We have been lucky enough to have the opportunity to review, and share with you a book from the personalised books website, inthebook.com. This sites enables you to give your children a personalised book where they are the heroes within the story, and in this case, even the activities!
This is a collaborative post.
The idea of inthebook.com is to enable you to create a personalised gift for your little ones with a message contained in the pages, and a story that has them within it. The baby books within the site offer a range of options for you to create the book that works best for your child. Names are added to the illustrations within the books, and a personalised message included on the first pages – as you can see here.
You can choose any messages you wish to feature in the first pages of the book. Shown here, is a simple message explaining how much you love your little one, but it is easy to pick anything you want when you order your books.
This particular book comes in a gorgeous presentation pack – making it a great gift for your child on a special occasion, as well as being a good learning tool for them.
Names need to be up to 12 characters, and the message to go into the books is two lines with a maximum of 40 characters. This gives you enough space to write what you need to do, without taking up too much space within the books. Prices start from c. £12.99, and you can choose from your favourite characters from Disney to Paw Patrol. In addition, you can shop by age within the site, from babies to teen.
Personalised book: What are the tracing activities?
Arty mouse guides your child throughout the book; a charming little charter, and instantly likeable for your little ones. Him and his friends give your child instructions on how they need to complete the pictures within the book. Tracing activities are a perfect way to help your kids with their pencil control to enable them to learn some of the skills that they need to write. Tracing activities:
- Improve pencil control,
- Focus on development of fine motor skills needed for handwriting, and
- Develop the different strokes throughout the book that are required for handwriting, e.g. curving, downward strokes, etc.
The activities within this book are fun, and given your kids goals around the creation of the finished pictures, but they are helping them to learn *sneaky*
Here is a favourite sheet from the book for you now.
You can see that the personalisation in this book is part of the activity, with kids learning how to write their name with the tracing. This is a great way of practising forming letters in early writing. This activity is a little trickier than some of the others due to the slightly more complex nature of the spider’s web. A good challenge for your kids.
<< To download the activity – just click on the circular image below and it is yours >>
Overall, the loved this site and the book itself; it offers a great gift for kids for birthdays, particularly with the presentation pak, that will be treasured for years to come. The costs are a little higher than for some books, but this is because of the personalised touches to the gifts.
If you like this tracing activity from Arty Mouse, why not take a look at some of the other activities like this on the site?
Fine motor skills and writing practise
Some further ideas for helping children with their fine motor skills, and writing too.
Making a cutting fine motor skills busy box #31DaysOfLearning
A lovely little busy box for the kids to practise cutting skills - an excellent activity to improve motor skills.
Five activities using kitchen tongs to promote fine motor skills
Get busy in the kitchen to help with the kids motor skills this time!
Printable number lacing cards for kids to sew
Lacing is a wonderful and fun activity for kids - and these number cards are excellent for encouraging it.
Get your Pen License certificate! Pen License and Handwriting Rockstars
If you need to encourage things in older kids - how about a pen license certificate for them to work towards?
Shape tracing for kids
We have simple lines within this activity for the kids, this is more about the shapes than the lines!
Number tracing for kids
Finally, we have some tracing activities based about numbers for you here.....
Here are some other ideas for handwriting practise across the web too:
Tracing and other writing activity ideas from the internet
We've got some more ideas for you from the internet to help your children to explore tracing and handwriting skills. Why not check them out?
Not Interested in Learning to Write Their Name? Try These.
This is obviously a personalised book activity - why not try a few more name tracing ideas from Hands on As We Grow. These are designed to inspire your kids to have a go.
Object Tracing - An easy drawing activity for all ages
This, from Pickle Bums, is a little different as a tracing activity - this encourages the kids to trace everyday objects to improve their co-ordination.
Making Trace Fossils in Edible Mud Dough
Our final idea, from Rainy Day Mum, is focused on fossils. Get your kids tracing them in edible mud!
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Helen
Helen
Helen is a mum to two, social media consultant, and website editor; and this site is (we think) the only Social Enterprise parenting magazine! Since giving up being a business analyst when juggling travel, work and kids proved too complicated, she founded KiddyCharts so she could be with her kids, and use those grey cells at the same time. KiddyCharts has reach of over 1.1million across social and the site. The blog works with big family brands (including travel) to help promote their services, as well as offering free resources to parents of kids under 10. It gives 51%+ profits to Reverence for Life, who fund a number of important initiatives in Africa, including bringing running water and basic equipment to a school in Tanzania. Helen has worked as a digital marketing consultant (IDM qualified) with various organisations, including Channel Mum, Truprint, Talk to Mums, and Micro Scooters. She loves to be creative in the brand campaigns she works on. Get in touch TODAY!