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Being an occupational therapist, I am always challenged to teach children the motor skills related to handwriting and am constantly on the hunt for new and creative ways to work on handwriting, without using strict, boring instruction.

The Create Your Own Enchanted Storybook by Creativity for Kids will allow children to work on those skills, why allowing their imagination to work alongside their fine motor skills.

Thanks to Disney, we live in the world of princess and fairies, this is a perfect gift for the princess in your house. This book is designed for little girls ages 5 and up. It includes a cardboard castle book that includes markers, stickers, several open pages for drawing and wide ruled lines for writing. I thought the instruction book was also well organized with excellent ideas on the mechanics of a story, how to create a rough draft and ways to use a word bank.

Here are some ways to promote your child’s writing with this book:

1. Why not use this story book as a way to journal a trip to a place like Walt Disney World in the plane, train or car while in route, and as a way to remember their trip and a place to collect autographs from their favorite princesses. It’s a great size and will fit very easily in a backpack or carry on.

2. For young children who are not yet able to make representational drawings, have them use the stickers provided to make their story while you write it down for them. If they can draw pictures themselves, encourage them to draw the pictures and verbally express their story, again while you write down the story on the lines for them.

3. Have your child draw the pictures and then on another piece of paper you write the words to the story. They can then copy over their story onto the lined paper at a later time to help them write it more neatly. If your child is in Kindergarten or First Grade, you may want to consider adding some dotted lines between the wide ruled lines to modify the paper similar to what they use at school.

4. For older children we live in such a technologically advanced world and many children are working on the skills for typing. Have them type their story on the computer, print it out and then cut and paste it onto the pages.

Creativity for Kids is allowing ToyQueen.com to giveaway 2 Enchanted Storybooks to 2 different readers! Contest ends Monday November 29th at 11:59 p.m. EST

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Creativity for Kids provided this product, free for the purpose of a review. The opinions expressed in this entry are purely the bloggers own.