Video: Letter formation, Curly caterpillar letter family

Help your child form each letter of the alphabet correctly with our step-by-step and stroke-by-stroke videos, with experts from the National Handwriting Association. Here we look at the Curly caterpillar family: c, a, d, g, q, o, e, s and f.
The Curly caterpillar family (c, a, d, g, q, o, e, s and f) is formed with a rounded movement made to start writing the letter. Our letter-by-letter video takes you through the correct formation of each letter, so you can help your child practise handwriting movements in the correct way.


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