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Pre Writing Lines – Free Practice Worksheets

Practicing pre-writing lines are an important skill to get children ready for handwriting letters. This FREE download (at the bottom of the post) provides bold lines to help children practice pre-writing strokes. Why is it Important to Practice Pre Writing Lines? Pre-writing skills are necessary to master in the early years for many important reasons. […]

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Visual Motor Activities – 10 Free Worksheets to Print and Play

Here are 10 free visual motor activities printables - just print, grab a pencil and you are all set!!! 

What are visual motor activities? Visual-motor activities help children to practice coordinating the hands, arms, legs, and body with the eyes.  Visual-motor skills help us to complete activities of daily living such as buttoning a shirt, fine motor skills such as handwriting, gross motor skills such as catching and throwing, and many other visual perceptual […]

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Paper Plate Drawing Game for Summer

This Summer paper plate game is a super fun, kinesthetic, easy activity for a group. Work on visual-spatial skills, visual motor skills, and body awareness.

This Summer paper plate drawing game is a super fun, kinesthetic, easy activity for a group.  It encourages visual-spatial skills, visual motor skills, and body awareness.  It is a definite challenge for kinesthetic awareness. How to play the paper plate drawing game: Give each player a pencil and a non-coated, white paper plate.  If you […]

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Visual Scanning Activities – Free printables and Ideas

Children need to search and compare what they are looking for as they scan the environment at school, and home. By practicing visual scanning activities, children may become more efficient and quick at finding the information that is necessary for different tasks.

Visual scanning is basically the ability to find and search for information in your environment. The information could be letters on a page, headlines, people, or objects. Children need to search and compare what they are looking for as they scan the environment at school, and home. By practicing visual scanning activities, children may become […]