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Timberdoodle Review: I Can Trace!

I Can Trace Toddler Big Skills for Little Hands

When Timberdoodle offered to send the I Can Trace! Toddler Big Skills for Little Hands book for me to review, I was happy to agree. We purchased a copy of I Can Paste! (made by the same company) at the beginning of the summer, and it is one of two-year-old Lily’s favorite activities.

Not surprisingly, I Can Trace! was also a hit! The book features numbers, letters, and a few other tracing activities that are perfect for children just getting started out with writing. I put the pages in sheet protectors so that Lily can do them over and over – and I’m very glad I did, because she made her way through the entire book within two days of our receiving it! She is very happy to continue tracing the pages over and over, and four-year-old Johnny likes to keep her company, teaching her about numbers and letters while she works.

This book has 80 pages, but each page is printed only on one side, so there is not that much content. I assume that this is to make the writing activities easier, which I think it does for a right-handed child. I wonder if the fact that all of the pages are only printed on the right side might frustrate a left-handed child. And I highly recommend tearing the perforated pages out and putting them in a page protectors in a binder – your child will achieve the same benefits from tracing, and they’ll be able to use this book over and over!

Do you have activity books that your children love that you can recommend?

MaryAnne is a craft loving educator, musician, photographer, and writer who lives in Silicon Valley with her husband Mike and their four children.

9 thoughts on “Timberdoodle Review: I Can Trace!”

    1. Absolutely! Such a simple solution :)

      I’ll have to look into both of those workbooks for Emma, I was trying to remember your music curriculum recently… Thank you!

  1. The sheet protectors are a great idea! We haven’t used workbooks yet – I have to check these out. My daughter does print out different activity pages from PBS, etc.

  2. I’m envious that your kids are so great at sticking with activities like this. I think this book would end up on the floor in our house in 1 minute flat! Nora did finally learn good penmanship in school this year, but it was like pulling teeth. And now that school is over, she’s back to her same old scribble. She does write a creative story, though, IF you can read it. No writing for Wells at all yet! I hate to push it or he might push back. Good for Lily!

    1. The funny thing is, Emma has fantastic penmanship EXCEPT when she’s doing her homework. Her in-school assignments are great, but the ones she has to do for school at home…

  3. This sounds wonderful – we buy a weekly magazine that has tracing activities but because it’s also got colouring activities and stickers I can’t put it in page protectors I need something like this to do it with.

    1. I was really pleased with it – just the right level of challenge for Lily, with a picture to go with each letter of the alphabet.

  4. My kids love mazes, and they loved the Kumon books, but I didn’t love the price of them.

    Oh wait, the Doodle books. It’s half finished line drawings, and your kid adds the rest of the picture. That’s been a huge hit!

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