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Hi hope this helps! the "ball and stick" (the ones we all learned to print as
children in gradeschool.) letters you refer to are easy to reproduce, and I
believe that the font "Penmanship Print" shows the way to make these. If you
are not totally adverse to workbooks there are TONS out there to look at.
Also, I wanted my kids to learn to print in a way that would make the
transition to cursive easier so I taught them Italic handwriting. There are
also TONS of workbooks for that as well. If you e-mail me privately I will
look through out my font files to see where I got the "Penmanship Print"
font, I believe it was a free download, but I am not sure. I will start my
search. I know that as unschoolers most of us don't use workbooks, but when
my in-laws and parents have gotten that "my grandkids aren't learning what
they should be" bug up their... and they send us books and workbooks, my kids
do seem to enjoy using them on their own terms and when/how they want. (not
usually how the instructions say to use them) So getting a few handwriting
workbooks that are bright and easy, w/o too much "teacher" in them isn't too
bad. (In my opinion.) Let us know how this works out! And as for bi-lingual
kids, we have found that exposure is the best! We live in a mixed
neighborhood where english and spanish are spoken, both my children like to
go to friends homes and learn spanish from their friends and their friends
parents. We also have a spanish CD rom for the kids to use. It is a bit
schoolish, and geared toward older teens and adults, but the kids do like
finding words they know and learning new ones to "show off" Good Luck!:o)
~Nancy


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