Finish the Circle Shape Owl – Visual Closure and Visual Motor Skills

Finish the Circle Shape Owl – Visual Closure and Visual Motor Skills

Here is an adorable freebie from Shape Owls.  Students can practice shape discrimination, visual closure, and handwriting skills with this 3 page free printable.  It includes 3 levels of difficulty – color the circle, finish the missing part of the circle owl or finish the missing half of the circle owl.  Each page allows for handwriting practice of the shape word.

DOWNLOAD YOUR FREE CIRCLE SHAPE OWL PRINTABLE

Need more circle projects?  Check out Step By Step Circle Animals to practice coloring, cutting and pasting skills.

Find out more information about the complete Shape Owl packet that includes 10 different owl shapes with 3 levels of difficulty to practice shape discrimination, visual closure, and handwriting skills.  Shape Owls helps children to learn to identify and describe 10 different shapes.  Analyze, create and compare 10 different owl shapes – circle, square, rectangle, triangle, diamond, oval, star, pentagon, hexagon and octagon.  There are 3 levels of difficulty.

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Dot to Dot 1-10 and 1-20 Freebies

Connect the Dot activities are great fun for children the only problem is sometimes they can just be way TOO hard!  Here are two free dot to dots from the latest download, Connect the Dots.  There is an owl dot to dot with numbers 1-10 and a pony dot to dot with numbers 1 -20.

Download the two free Connect the Dot puzzles here.

The complete Connect the Dots download includes over 60 black and white, reproducible dot to dot puzzles progressively ranging from easy to more difficult to encourage visual motor, figure ground and visual closure skills. This download includes dot to dots 1-5, 1-10, 1-15, 1-20, 1-25, 1-30, A to Z, a to z and dot to dots in a picture.  GET MORE INFORMATION.

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Handwriting Speed Associated with Manipulation and Visual Perceptual Skills

The British Journal of Occupational Therapy examined 39 typically developing 6-8 year old children to determine whether visual perceptual, visual-motor integration and in-hand manipulation skills were associated with manuscript handwriting speed.  Each participant completed Beery–Buktenica Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration – 6th edition (DTVMI), the Developmental Test of Visual Perception – 3rd edition (DTVP-3), the Test of In-Hand Manipulation – Revised (TIHM-R), and the Handwriting Speed Test (HST).  Results indicated the following:

• significant correlations were found between visual perception, visual-motor integration, and in-hand manipulation skills and total letters written and total letters per minute.
• the DTVP-3 eye–hand coordination and visual closure subscales and the TIHM-R were significant predictors of total letters written.
• the DTVP-3 copying and visual closure subscales and the TIHM-R were predictive of total letters written per minute.

The researchers concluded that visual perceptual abilities, specifically visual closure skills, plus in-hand manipulation skills appear to be significant predictors of children’s printing speed.

Reference:  Ted Brown and Julia Link. The association between measures of visual perception, visual-motor integration, and in-hand manipulation skills of school-age children and their manuscript handwriting speed. British Journal of Occupational Therapy March 2016 79: 163-171, first published on September 24, 2015 doi:10.1177/0308022615600179

Visual Perceptual and Handwriting Practice Pages are activities to practice letter formation, visual motor, visual discrimination and visual spatial skills. Each letter page includes double line (Handwriting without Tears® style) and dotted line (Zaner-Bloser® style) format plus a visual perceptual activity related to the letter.  Find out more information and download a sample page.

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Visual Motor and Visual Closure Activity with Symmetrical Monsters

Check out the latest freebie from Missing Monsters to challenge visual motor, visual closure and visual disscrimination skills.  You can download it here http://yourtherapysource.com/missingmonstersfreebie.html

Springtime Visual Perceptual Freebie

Download this visual discrimination freebie from Spring Visual Perceptual Puzzles at http://yourtherapysource.com/vpspringfree

You can view the entire Spring Visual Perceptual Puzzle packet at http://yourtherapysource.com/vpspring.html



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Patterns, Patterns, Patterns

Here are 6 FREE sample pages from Patterns, Patterns, Patterns  which is a collection of over 50 visual perceptual activities involving patterns. Children will be challenged to draw the patterns and find shapes, numbers or objects in a pattern. The activity pages are in black and
white.

Patterns, Patterns, Patterns stimulates:
visual motor skills
visual perceptual skills
visual closure skills
visual discrimination
spatial relationships
visual memory

Download your free sample pages at http://www.yourtherapysource.com/patternsfree.html

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Holiday Puzzle on Paper

Here is a holiday puzzle to challenge visual spatial, visual closure and visual motor skills.  You can download it at http://yourtherapysource.com/christmaspuzzle.html

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Autumn Visual Closure Activity

Encourage visual closure and visual motor skills with this Autumn activity.  Download it at http://yourtherapysource.com/freeautumncloseup.html

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Free Frog Grid Drawing

Practice spatial reasoning, visual motor skills and visual closure skills with this freebie from Grid Drawing.  Download it at http://yourtherapysource.com/griddrawingfreebie.html

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Vertical Puzzles

Here is a simple way to make vertical puzzles.  By hanging up the puzzles on the wall or in an upright position you encourage an increase in upper extremity active range of motion, wrist extension and can sneak in some gross motor skills (ie squatting and reaching up high).

Find an old poster or use the back of a cereal box.

Cut it into large strips.

Decide if you want to use a pool noodle to create your vertical puzzle or contact paper (reversed on wall so sticky side is facing out).

For the pool noodle version, slice a pool noodle in half lengthwise.  Then cut a strip down the middle of the pool noodle all the way through.  Only cut through the middle of the pool noodle not on either end.  Slip the cardboard in to help hold up the puzzle pieces.  Now you have an easel to put your vertical puzzle back together again.  Slide in each piece of the puzzle.

For the sticky paper version, on a wall hang up the contact paper with the sticky side facing out.  Use painter's tape around edges to hold it up.  Now reassemble your puzzle pieces right on the sticky paper.  Place the sticky paper higher up on the wall and the puzzle pieces on the floor to encourage squatting and reaching tall when reassembling the puzzle.   

Check out Puzzles on Paper.  It includes 40+ puzzles to challenge visual spatial and visual closure skills.  Find out more information at http://yourtherapysource.com/puzzlepaper.html

 

 

Simple Visual Closure Activity

Simple Visual Closure Activity

Here is a simple and easy visual closure activity with some cutting practice thrown in there.  

For this activity you will need:

1.  Small file folders or folded cardstock - I had some small index card file folders that were perfect for this activity.

2.  magazine

3.  scissors

4.  glue

Directions:

1.  Cut out small pictures from a magazine.  Close up pictures work best.

2.  An adult should cut small windows in the front of each folder.  I used a circle cutter from my scrapbooking supplies.

3.  Glue the magazine picture inside the file folder.

4.  Close up the folders.

5.  Shuffle up the cards.  Can the child guess what picture is inside the folder?

To make this task more difficult have the cards ready for the child so that he/she has no idea what the picture may be.  Perhaps ask questions to the child such as: does it look soft? does it look like food? 

If you still want the child to be involved in creating the window cards, have he/she make a set for another child and then swap.  It would be a fun game since the one child will know what is inside the card.  

This activity encourages:

• visual closure skills
• scissor skills

Need more visual closure activities?  Check out:

• Visual Closure Games and Activities at http://yourtherapysource.com/closure.html
• What is It? at http://yourtherapysource.com/whatisit.html 
• Graph Paper Drawings at http://yourtherapysource.com/graphdraw.html

Visual Spatial and Visual Closure Puzzles

Check out the latest electronic book from Your Therapy Source Inc - Puzzles on Paper.  You can download two free sample pages here.  Practice visual spatial and visual closure skills with these puzzles.