LeftHand NZ - Left-handed products for left handed people/For Children

Text Box: Please help us spread the word about our “Little Lefty Set” Click anywhere around here and you’ll be able to download our printer friendly 1pg A4 flyer that can be pinned up on notice boards at Playcentres, Kindergartens and Schools - wherever there are parents with children about 3 to 8 years old. Download “Little Lefty Set” A4 flyer

Text Box: Parents are often amazed at how good the child they thought was "hopeless at cutting anything" becomes when they first try a pair of genuine left-handed scissors.

If you’d like to encourage your older left-handed child to help you in the kitchen, around the house, with DIY projects and so on..….it would probably be a good idea at this time, to check out the lefty potato peelers, tape measures, can openers and all the other left-handed items we have on our website or just download our Product Catalogue.

Oval: Please read this before you order….

You might already know that your left-handed child is struggling to cope in a right-handed world. . .

For us lefties, even a relatively simple task like cutting out a circle can be extremely difficult if we are given right-handed scissors to cut with! (find out why….)

The funny thing is that when right-handers see us struggling they don’t understand the problem and have no idea what the fuss is all about!! (read the full article….)

There is no doubt that the easiest and most efficient solution by far, is to simply use the left-handed version of the item if it has been invented! And...hooray!! Genuine left-handed scissors have been available for quite a few years now! If you’d like to find out more about the ‘scissors issue’……..click here.

On this page we introduce items and resources that have been developed specifically for left-handed children. Please have a good look at what is available and commit yourself to getting your little left-hander the correct left-handed equipment as early as possible.

This is my vision of the best and most appropriate products currently available to suit each ‘stage’ of a left-handed child’s life: Very Early Years: (about 3 years old to about 5 years old)
Our ‘starter pack’ of stationery items “Little Lefty Set” is ideal for children who have started to show signs of being left-handed (from approximately 3 years old). Our “Little Lefty Set” contains all the essential items to cover the age range of: 3 to ± 8 years old. (For full info please click here)
The most perfect scenario would be if you are reading this when your child is at the scribbling stage, just showing the earliest signs of wanting to write! If you have noticed that your child seems to hold the pencil or crayon in their left hand pretty much most of the time, then please read about our “Write-on Wipe-off Workbook for teaching left-handed children how to write. This is a step-by-step learning programme and will take you and your child on a lovely journey from the scribbling stage to writing beautifully and comfortably in a good, fast and flowing left-handed style.
Don’t despair if your left-handed child has already started writing and is having difficulties, please check out this very same Workbook. It includes notes and guidelines about what to do if you child is older. The “Little Lefty Set” and the “Write-on Wipe-off” Workbook compliment each other - together they will give you and your young left-handed child everything you need. Please seriously consider getting both of them for your child.
The ergonomically moulded pencil grip (one is included in the “Little Lefty Set”) should always be placed on pencils, pens, felt tips and brushes to gently encourage your child to develop the ‘tripod’ grip for holding the writing implement. Additional pencil grips can be purchased separately using: Code: LNZ31 Price: $4.80 each You will find more information about this excellent invention here……...
The ‘SMove Easy Ergonomic Pencils are specifically designed for children’s hands with indentations in the correct places to encourage the correct tripod grip from the very start no matter how the pencil is rotated. The small size, low weight and thick pencil lead make them particularly suitable for young children learning to write - they make learning to write effortless, child friendly and fun. And best of all - kid’s simply LOVE them!! More info about them can be found here……...
A publication designed to go with these new ergonomic pencils is called: “Pencil Exercises for Beginners.” The target audience is children from 3 to 5 years old. It consists of 20 jam-packed pages with more than 20 exercises to help very young children with pencil control and the development of the fine motor skills needed for handwriting. This page for more info about it.
A nice, soft pencil for this stage is this triangular shaped triplus fat pencil. It is the bottom one in the picture - (the pencil at the top of the photo is a regular sized pencil to show the difference in size more clearly). This fatter than usual pencil is easy for chubby little fingers to hold securely and the lead is soft enough for even their lightest scribbles to turn into works of art! Code: LNZ51 Price: $2.50 each Fat wax crayons and the triangular triplus crayons are also recommended.
Other useful resources: A brand new resource to help you teach your left-handed child how to tie their own shoe laces. Having different coloured laces helps the child easily see which lace is which! The lefty instructions on the back are very easy to follow. Code: LNZ52 Price: $9.50
The beautifully illustrated book “Alf and Bet learn their ABC” is wonderful for teaching the letters of the alphabet and names of animals. Alf is a left-hander and Bet is a right-hander - a really delightful book that your child will love! Code: IMP65 Price: $19.00
VHS Video: “Left-Handed Children: A Guide for Teachers and Parents” provides visual guidance and insights about what it means to be left-handed and how you can help your left-handed child. Code: IMP17 Price: $50.00
“Left Hand Writing Skills” Book 1: Fine Motor Skills This is the first of a series of three books written by Mark and Heather Stewart with worksheets for the young left-hander and brief guidelines for parents and teachers. Book 1 offers a colourful variation and more practice in forming the letters of the alphabet and numbers. The size of the letters makes it ideally suited for lefties 3 to 4 years old. Code: IMP46 Price: $32.00
FIVE years old! And off to school for the first time ever!!
What an exciting time this is - for your child and you!!! Our “Little Lefty Set” contains all the essential stationery items needed by your child as they head off to school for the first time ever! Hopefully they will have been using it already for quite some time before this momentous event - but if not, please get one for your little lefty straight away!
Many Mums decide to get two “Little Lefty Sets” at this time, usually in different colours, one to use at home and one to take to school. We put the child’s first name and surname on the label of the pencil case that will be going to school as this helps to ensure it doesn’t get lost or misused by anyone else!
Our “Write-on Wipe-off Workbook” is the best resource for this stage for teaching and practicing handwriting. It is helpful for left-handed children all the way to about 8 years old! Feedback from a happy Mum! ”Caitlin is very excited and is using the "write on wipe off book" every night. I can see it is going to help enormously….”
As your little lefty gets older...
a larger pair of left-handed scissors will be needed. The chronological age for this change varies considerably - it depends a lot on whether your left-handed child is big boned or petite! But it is usually around about the age of 7 to 8 years old. This would be the time to get a “Lefty Set” for older lefties with the larger scissors and a smudge proof pen with fast drying ink! More info here…... More handwriting resources for the older left-handed child are also available. Check them out here.
A longer 30cm lefty ruler would be very useful at this stage as well.

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An informative article about handwriting for you to download and read. . .

“Help with handwriting”

written by

Nikki Soames

This was published

in the

NZ SPELD Record.

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