Using Cartoon And Comic Strip Tools

Cartoons and comics hold a natural appeal for children. Using any of the freely available online comic strip tools, children can move from passive reading to active participants as storybook authors. As a parent, you can encourage your child by planning out the story and helping the child through the initial steps like sketching the key stages and having them fill in the other steps. Children don’t need drawing skills. If they have a story, they can create simple stick-figure comic strips within a few frames. Even if they cannot draw, they can narrate the story and you can draw the comics.

Mindmapping

Mindmapping isn’t only for adults. The earlier kids learn this skill, the better. Through the school years, mindmapping can turn into an invaluable note-taking tool. Even Tony Buzan, the founder of many mindmapping concepts hasn’t left kids out and has published a full-color workbook. I only wish I had learnt this skill in my wonder years. It would have helped me structure and simplify complex information. It definitely would have helped me save agonizing hours revising before exams.

Mindmaps needs some pens and paper only. But you can take advantage of the many online mindmapping tools. Try Bubbl.us for basic mindmapping and then you can help your child graduate upwards to more versatile apps. With a little help, you can turn to Google Drive and Microsoft Word as well for designing mindmaps.