The printables
Fingers on the bumpy keys: poster
The keyboard colored by finger, our illustrated hands on home row, and a shape for every finger (▲ pointer, ● tall, ○ ring, ★ pinky, ■ thumb) so it works for color-blind kids too. Three tips a six-year-old can follow.
My typing road: progress chart
One hundred stops on ten roads, three stars to color at each. Matches the app's levels, but works with any typing curriculum. The road is the point.
Certificates: home row · alphabet · super typist
Three milestones worth a fridge: I know home row!, Alphabet Champion (all 26 letters) and Super Typist (all 100 levels). Name and date lines, Bumper's stamp. The app prints the same ones automatically.
Bumpy Keys at home: family flyer
For teachers: what the class is learning, why ten minutes a day works, and a QR code so families can keep going at home. Sign your name and send it in the folder.
Classroom starter kit: two weeks to home row
For teachers and co-ops: setup in fifteen minutes, a day-by-day plan for ten minutes a day by band (K · grades 1 and 2 · grades 3 and 4), posture and the five coaching phrases, plus the home row mat and the first certificate. Five pages.
Letter home to families
One page that says what the class is practicing, what the app costs (free to start, $4.99 optional), that it collects nothing, and which devices it runs on (iPad, Mac, and any browser at play.bumpykeys.com). Blanks for your name and class.
Class progress wall
Twenty racers down the side, one hundred levels across, a star to color at each. Kids read their level off the home screen and color their own. It is the dashboard; no data needed, none collected.
Home row mat
Lay it above any keyboard and line up F with F. Home row keys at real size, colored and shaped by finger, with two hand outlines and the F and J bumps. Good for the first week.
Pictures beat instructions.
"Which finger?" is the hardest thing to teach in typing, and the hardest thing for a young child to read. So every finger gets a color and a shape, on the poster and in the app. Bumper says the name out loud. The chart turns 100 levels into a road with stops. The certificate turns a milestone into something to show off.
How to use them
How to teach a child to type (ages 4 to 9)
A ten-minute-a-day plan: home row first, which finger, accuracy before speed.
Read the guide →Homeschool typing curriculum for ages 4 to 9
A complete scope and sequence that fits in ten minutes a day.
Read the guide →Free typing program for schools
A free K to 4 keyboarding program on iPad. No accounts, no student data, works offline.
Read the guide →All the guides for parents and teachers.