how to hold a pencil for drawing

Hold the Pencil

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"It was hard to agree my pencil similar this at first, but I kept trying. Now I practice it all the fourth dimension."

— Sarah, start-grade pupil

"It was easy. My daughter changed her grip inside two weeks."

— Carol, mom of a 5 year-old

Some children easily transition to the Tripod Grasp. For others, it is a challenge to keep the fingers in the tripod position. There are a variety of tools available to assistance keep the fingers in place. They are temporary tools, much like preparation wheels on a bicycle.

How hard is it to change the grip?

Easiest

Some children utilize the tripod grasp naturally. Others may only need to be shown and encouraged to exercise.

Piece of cake

Some children might do good with a triangular shaped pencil as a little reminder to go on the fingers in a tripod position. As well, there are grippers that skid onto a pencil to make information technology triangular.

Triangular-shaped pencils help establish the tripod grasp. — Triangular-shaped pencils help plant the tripod grasp.

Extra Training

Grippers with indentations or cups for the fingers help those who have a hard fourth dimension keeping the fingers in place.

Pencil Grippers help keep the fingers in position.

Old HABITS

The Twist n' Write Pencil takes a different approach on holding the pencil and helps those who have established a grasp that is harder to alter.

Twist n' Write helps children who have established an odd grasp and are having a hard time changing to the tripod grasp.

"The new grip will probably feel uncomfortable at outset."

"At showtime, my son said that the pencil with the pencil gripper was uncomfortable. I explained that he was familiar with the other way of holding a pencil and that as he got accustomed to the new grip information technology would feel better. He used the pencil with the gripper only when we sat down together to describe. I ignored how he held the pencil at other times of the day.
After about six weeks, during a time when he was drawing on his own, I noticed that he held his pencil (no gripper) using the tripod grip. I said, "Look how y'all are property your pencil." He looked downwardly at his mitt and said, "I didn't mean to do it!" We practiced together with the gripper a few more weeks, until he realized that he really didn't demand it anymore.

The gripper was temporary—similar using training wheels on a bike."

— Kim Stitzer, mother of a v yr-old