Kids tracing boards!

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Just made these new tracing boards had such a great success with them so i added some cursive boards aswell!

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Awesome!!! These are on my to make listā€¦with two boys in Kindergarten, these will be perfect.

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Nicely done. Cursive is not being taught in as many schools as it was when my children were young.

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This turned out great!

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There was a TikTok challenge recently of ā€œcan you figure out how to write your name without lifting the penā€ - cursive might be making a comeback! :stuck_out_tongue:

(Iā€™m terribly at cursive, Iā€™ve pretty much always written in semi-block text. When it was new and shiny I printed something in Comic Sans and my Mom exclaimed ā€œHow did you get a font of your handwriting?!ā€)

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I canā€™t even read American cursive.

Not being disparaging, itā€™s just so different to what is taught outside the US. When my daughter had anything hand-written in cursive, I had to let her mom translate it for me.

I can barely write these days anyway, so who am I to judge. :rofl:

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Writing in cursive has become a ā€˜lost artā€™ā€¦I would love to see it make a comeback.

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@melissacarvalho, that is great! I also like how you did the days of the week and shapes. Good way to help kids learn.

@eflyguy, I usually still write in cursive, or worse yet, shorthand! Iā€™m definitely not as adept at shorthand as I used to be, when I used it for my job all the time and could take down almost 140 wpm. But I still do use it a lot.

When I was taking college classes, Iā€™d take all my notes in shorthand and print them out. Because I could do it so quickly, Iā€™d get almost everything the teacher said, including any drawings, and did very well on my tests as I had so much to study from. I ended up selling my notes to several students at $1/page. Made some good money!

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These are great!

Iā€™ve been doing virtual learning with my grandson the last two years. His handwriting developed to being extremely neat and uniform. He recently asked me to teach him cursive. So, weā€™ve started.

It is great to provide any tools we can for children.

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I STILL love that olive wood board

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This is so cool thanks for showing it.

Keep creating

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Cursive boards have been a great seller. Not taught anymore in schools but parents are still teaching this art which is great.

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Found the file on etsy and just engraved on acrylic

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Good idea! Might have to make something like this to practice my fancy hand lettering. Back when I did stage props, I always had to make the historical looking items with handwriting because I was the only one who still wrote in cursive.

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I know a few adults who could benefit from this.

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They look awesome. Did you downloads the designs or create yourself? Can you share?

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While they may share where the design came from, asking for files isnā€™t allowed. If someone freely offers it on their own, thatā€™s perfect. And itā€™ll probably be in the #free-laser-designs area.

https://community.glowforge.com/faq

Or they may have a link to a store or site the design came from.

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