Visual Motor

Visual motor skills are essentially the coordination of visual perception and fine motor control such as being able to catch a ball as it is tossed at you, copying/drawing a pattern, or copying/drawing letters, numbers and shapes. 

Many of these activities require using both hands together which can be difficult. Your student may require increased assistance to be successful. 

Here is a list of activities you could try to encourage fine motor skills with your student: 

• Ball skills-catching throwing, kicking, hitting

• Worksheets- mazes, dot to dot, color by numbers, copy or trace- lines, letters, shapes and numbers

• Lacing activities

• Make bracelets using cereal or noodles

• Parquetry designs

• Pegboard with designs

• Puzzles

• Building with blocks to copy a design

• Sort items into a muffin tin

• Bingo marker with worksheet

• Cutting on a line

• Playing games on a tablet