It is great feeling to have a hand written letter on the hand from your loved ones. This conveys the message that the person who wrote the letter put the feelings into it. But this feeling has almost extinct in this age of e-mails and mobile text messages. People often say that letter writing is a time consuming task and in this superfast age people don't get much time to write a letter. It is a great art to present your feeling by means of a letter. These letters often turn out to be very useful as these contain many hidden historical facts. In the different parts of the world, there are still the museums where we can find letters written by the great scholars of the past. These letters unveil many historical facts that enhance our sphere of knowledge.

In the schools, the practice of letter writing is still prevalent; but kids don't this task as something interesting or important. They just accomplish the task to score good marks in tests. If teachers and parents can generate interest towards letter writing, it can turn out to be a fun activity to the kids. While teaching letter writing tips to kids, don't overburden the child to be a perfectionist. Kids may write not in the proper sequence, but this practice will teach them how to present their feelings through writing. First show the kids some samples of letters that you have written or that someone has written to you. Present the letter as something interesting so that the child can also get attracted.

You can provide the child with different color pencils so that after writing the letter, the child can decorate it with different shapes and figures. This way the child's creativity also gets enhanced. Teach the basic rule of letter writing like how to address the elders or how to start a letter which is to be sent to friends or peers. Provide time to your child so that the child can grab the first letter introducing tip properly. The second is to encourage the child to use different attractive vocabulary in the letter. In this way, your child's vocabulary would also get increased. Being a parent, you can make a play out of letter writing. You can start the game as if the accomplishes the task successfully; you will offer a reward for that. This way the activity would cater to the interest of your child.

Writing letter is a good practice to make your hold strong in the grammar, punctuation and spelling. Some people may question, why to stress on grammar and spelling when our computers can make corrections. But even then good writing communication is still imperative. We, in this technologically advanced world, communicate through e-mails and blogs. But to be a good blogger, one needs to be good in grammar and writing styles as well. Letter writing itself is an art. There are many people who can express their feelings in such a way that itself created a good piece of writing. When children learn this art from a very initial stage of their life, they are encouraged towards creating good piece of literary works.