Draw up a cursive handwriting sheet for your kids to practice on. Make one by using a ruler and a pen to draw solid lines at equal intervals down the page. Make sure the intervals are roughly 1 inch if your child is a beginner; gradually make them narrower as your child gets better at writing. Try to have enough intervals for every letter of the alphabet if your child is a beginner. If he or she is intermediate, decide on simple words you would like your child to practice.
Draw a dotted line through the middle of each interval, so that the dotted lines divide the space between the solid lines in half.
Write a letter or a word at the start of each line that you would like your child to practice writing in cursive. Capital letters should fill up the entire inch of space, while small consonants (the letters 'a," "c," e" and "r," for example) should go only up to the dotted line. Letters with tails, such as "'p," q" and "y," should go only up to the dotted line, but extend below the solid line and touch the dotted line below it. Tall letters such as "k," "t" and "d" should stretch to fill the entire space.
If you are writing words, choose a variety of words that will teach your child how to connect different letters together, so don't choose similar words, such as "'cat," mat" and "sat." Make sure you provide a variety of tall letters, letters with tails and small letters.
Allow your child to write the letter or word over and over again with a pencil. Watch to make sure he or she is not lifting the pencil off the page and is staying within the lines.