Tools & crafts

Many tools are built for the right hand. With the wrong tool a capable child looks clumsy.

What you'll notice

• Ragged cutting and crooked lines.
• Rulers that slip and scales read the wrong way.
• Pencils that break in the sharpener.
• Frustration in craft lessons.

Why it happens

Ordinary scissors hide the cutting line from a left-handed user and press the blades apart. Ruler scales read the wrong way when drawing from right to left.

The tool, not the child, is clumsy.

In the classroom

1. Keep true left-handed scissors (blades reversed) in the class set.
2. Provide rulers with a scale that runs right to left.
3. Seat left-handers where their elbow has room.

At home

• Buy left-handed scissors, ruler and sharpener for the pencil case.
• Choose top-bound notebooks or left-hand spirals.
• Tell the school which tools work for your child.

Exercise to print

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