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Teaching a Preschooler to Love Writing

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Okay, so I'm not sure how many of you actually saw my post the other day on how Benjamin really didn't want to do his writing and it ended in a fight etc. Well it got me thinking what ways I could get him to WANT to do it and here is one of the ideas I came up with. A written-by-the-child book! Use favorite character printed cut outs and have them write the story! It worked great and he actually wanted to make another book today, so I decided to share the idea. Items you need: 1 piece of colored construction paper Two (or more) pieces of plain white paper Stapler Glue Marker Pencil or Pen Scissors Pictures of favorite characters I started off with going online and finding pictures of Power Rangers, since that is his new thing. Today when we did it, he helped choose pictures, but it is a LOT more time consuming as he loves to scroll through the millions of pictures in awe.  I printed them off and then had him choose a piece of constructio...