The Dexterity Diaries is a bundle of related short stories about fine motor skills. These are activities like cutting, folding, placing beads on a string, picking up small or flimsy objects, etcetera. Children need to train these a lot to get good at them. Additionally, those skills are often required for playing board/video games, puzzles, or escape rooms, all of which are very common products at our educational store.
These stories help showcase these skills and get kids excited to practice them. Every chapter focuses on a new “superhero” whose powers are related to a skill. For example, someone who can fold anything … and if they do it right, the thing they created becomes real. Another fun character can cut through anything, and if their cuts were precise enough, what they cut out becomes real too.
As a villain threatens this extraordinary world, the heroes must work together and combine their skills to defeat them!
The stories are simple and standalone, allowing you to read them to your child (or a classroom) one at a time. Near the end, the stories reference each other more and more and start telling a bigger story. (They also become slightly longer each time as a result.) It is, therefore, still recommended to read them in order (and without too much time between chapters).
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- 14 short stories exploring loads of fine motor skills to practice (cutting, folding, etc)
- The stories are included as a
.pdffile (most suitable for printing) and.epubfile (most suitable for ereaders). - The PDF has pages in “Half Letter” format (near A5; typical for books), but any computer system should allow printing 2 pages at once on a single A4/Letter page.
- Bingo Cards (for Apprentices to cross off things that appear as they listen to the story)