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What Is Visual Motor?
What Is Visual Motor?
Visual motor ( eye – hand coordination) skills refers to how well visual perception( what you see) and finger –hand movements are coordinated to replicate an activity. They are skills which affect our ability with coloring, drawing, tracing around a maze, putting a puzzle together, buttoning and cutting activities. In order to follow the line with cutting, you need the ability to co-ordinate the arm, hand and eye movements for success.
Without visual –motor skill development, the child will struggle to write letters and numbers and perform other classroom activities. An occupational therapist helps to break down information into steps of an activity that the child will be able to follow and work on the individual skills of that activity. We provide treatment to improve a student's motor skills, strength, balance and coordination to improve their success with activities in the classrooms. Accommodations and modifications to an activity may also be recommended depending on the child's improvements and challenges.
Visual Motor Activities
Visual Motor Activities
Scissor Activities
Scissor Activities
1. Cut up junk mail or index cards. Draw thick lines across the index cards for learning to cut on a line with various colors to improve attention and to add fun in the activity, draw a star at the bottom of the card where cutting should always begin on each line then make a shape or number at the top for visual interest ( draw highlighted lines across the corners to teach how to rotate the paper when ready for this step)
2. Cut fringe on the edge of a paper plate, index cards, or old mail to practice snipping. Make the lines colorful, you can even make a pattern of colors with the student choosing the colors for more involvement and fun. Glue the cut items onto a piece of paper to make a design or picture (Reinforcing holding the paper down with the non-dominant hand).
3. Cut Play-Doh with scissors, roll into" hot dogs"
4. Cut straws and then lace them on a string or pipe cleaner.
5. When ready practice cutting zig zag lines, curved lines and simple shapes with each line a different color and a star at the bottom of the paper for a starting point. Begin with cutting on a ¼ sheet of paper then enlarge the paper as they are successful.
Visual Motor Activities
Visual Motor Activities
Here are some activities that you can perform at home
* Building- with blocks/Legos, follow a pattern or create your own!
* Scribbling – Break out the coloring books!!!!! use various colors, make borders around an area on a coloring page and use one color for that area then continue on that page with different parts of the picture
* Tracing – trace around cookie cutters, follow curved and angled lines, trace around a picture, trace different shapes, practice tracing letters and numbers, use different colors for each letter or trace all upper case one color and lowercase another, use small items to place on a handout letter such as macaroni, M and M's to form the strokes
* Writing – write short notes to your friends or family members, practice writing your name and address and phone number use paper, shaving crème, sprinkles on a cookie sheet etc. , make lists ex. write the items you see in a certain room of the house
* Drawing – practice drawing people, animals, houses, trees, look at a picture and try to draw the same thing, draw a picture and describe it to someone and see if the can guess what you drew
* Cutting – Cut fringe on the edge of a paper plate, index cards, or old mail to practice snipping, Cut Play-Doh with scissors, roll into" hot dogs", straws and then lace them on a string or pipe cleaner, when ready practice cutting zig zag lines, curved lines and simple shapes with each line a different color and a star at the bottom of the paper for a starting point. Begin with cutting on a ¼ sheet of paper then enlarge the paper as they are successful.
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