Earth Day
Rock Painting
Wednesday, the 22nd, was Earth Day!
Everyday should be Earth Day.
Celebrate with this fun fine and visual-motor activity!
Instructions
-Find some rocks outside, small enough to fit in your hand, but big enough to paint a picture on.
-Wash and dry your rock to get any extra dirt off
-Acrylic paints will last longer outside, but you can use things like paint markers, and use modge podge to seal it so the color stays.
-Paint on fun designs, inspirational words, or things you love in nature.
-When painting with a brush, make sure your fingers are positioned close the brush end for better control.
Benefits:
Gets you outside and exploring.
Painting with a brush will help promote a functional grasp for writing tools.
Express your ideas creatively.
Painting is a great activity for developing hand-eye coordination.
Rock Painting
Wednesday, the 22nd, was Earth Day!
Everyday should be Earth Day.
Celebrate with this fun fine and visual-motor activity!
Instructions
-Find some rocks outside, small enough to fit in your hand, but big enough to paint a picture on.
-Wash and dry your rock to get any extra dirt off
-Acrylic paints will last longer outside, but you can use things like paint markers, and use modge podge to seal it so the color stays.
-Paint on fun designs, inspirational words, or things you love in nature.
-When painting with a brush, make sure your fingers are positioned close the brush end for better control.
Benefits:
Gets you outside and exploring.
Painting with a brush will help promote a functional grasp for writing tools.
Express your ideas creatively.
Painting is a great activity for developing hand-eye coordination.
Q-Tip Painted Eggs
Here is a fun way to work on your fine and visual motor skills at the same time, paint Easter Egg pictures using Q-tips. You will need: Q-tips Paint Egg carton or ice cube tray to put the paint in Paper You can get a printed template at this website: https://forgetfulmomma.com/2015/03/25/q-tip-painting-easter-eggs/ So gather your supplies and get hopping to make a Easter Egg painting! |
Visual Motor Integration (Prewriting)
Visual motor integration basically measures a child's ability to make sense of visual information and coordinate it with fine motor output. It is the skill that helps our eyes and hands to work together to complete tasks such as drawing and handwriting. The visual motor integration ability to copy basic shapes such as |, /, +, O, X, triangle and square are considered prerequisites for handwriting.
Difficulty with visual-motor integration problems are the same. Some students have problems with the visual part (seeing the differences in shapes, remembering what letters look like), some with the motor part (like writing with your non-dominant hand) and some with the integration of the two.
What You Can Do:
- ¨Drawing within a large space, such as on a wall chalkboard, dry erase board or easel, helps children learn about the movement involved in the shapes and strokes they are learning.
- ¨Draw shapes with a highlighter for the child to trace over.
- ¨Make shapes with sticks (toothpicks, popsicle sticks, Wikki Stix, etc.) for child to copy.
- ¨Have child use various materials (toothpicks, popsicle sticks, Wikki Stix, etc.) to make shapes.
- ¨Draw around stencils of shapes and simple objects.
- ¨ Half-to-Whole drawings: draw half of a simple picture (pizza, house, person, tree) and child draws the other half.
- ¨Connect-the-Dots activities; mazes;
- Mazes: trace the way out first with your finger, then with a pencil or crayon
- Coloring books: children over age 4 should be encouraged to color inside the lines