Halloween Bat Dice Drawing

Halloween Bat Dice Drawing

Here is a simple game that requires paper, pencil and one die.  Player one rolls a die. To start your drawing you must roll a #1. When you roll the #1, you can draw the first item. Next player rolls and again must roll a #1 to start. If you do not roll a #1 your turn is over. Continue taking turns but now each time you roll you can draw the corresponding picture with the number. Once you roll the numbers 2-6 your drawing will be complete. The first player to complete the drawing is the winner!  For this dice drawing game, the children can practice drawing a Halloween bat.   This freebie is from the Halloween Sensory Motor Packet.

For more Halloween activities, check out the Halloween Sensory Motor Packet or the Halloween Bundle!

DOWNLOAD YOUR FREE HALLOWEEN BAT DICE DRAWING

For more dice activities, check out Dice Drawing. It is a fun way to practice drawing simple pictures.    The download includes 20 dice drawing game pages: 15 simple animals and 5 faces.  This document is in black and white.This download encourages fine motor skills, visual motor skills, and visual perceptual skills. The activities are reproducible to use over and over again with all the children that you teach.  Check out Roll Some Fun Brain Breaks:  Download of 12 print and play games that encourage visual motor and sensory motor skills.

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Free Find and Follow ABCs

Challenge visual motor, visual scanning and more with these free find and follow ABCs.  You can download this 3-page freebie from the Find and Follow complete packets that include every uppercase letter and numbers 0 through 9.

The great thing about this freebie is it requires no prep – just print and it is ready to go.  Bonus – it is all in black and white therefore inexpensive to print.

These free find and follows ABCs are perfect for handwriting warm ups, letter review, and visual scanning.

DOWNLOAD YOUR FREE FIND AND FOLLOW ABCs

Here are more details about the complete Find and Follow: Alphabet and Number Hunts and Mazes digital download includes mazes and hunts for every letter of the alphabet and numbers 0-9.  Challenge visual scanning, visual motor and visual spatial skills with this fun, black and white packet.  On each page, you need to find and circle the upper case letter or number and follow the path through the maze. packet.

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Holiday Tree Prewriting Activity Page

Here is a FREE Holiday tree prewriting activity page to practice visual motor skills.  The child can practice tracing each of the small circles to complete the holiday tree.  Once all the circles have been drawn, paint or color in the picture.  This is a great, quick NO PREP activity to encourage visual perceptual skills during the December holiday season.

DOWNLOAD the free Holiday tree prewriting activity page.

This activity is from the Holiday Prewriting Activity Pages packet.  The download includes 20 black and white December holiday pictures to trace and color. This is a “just right” activity for children who are learning to write, draw and color. Each picture has dotted lines for the child to trace to practice visual motor skills. Once completed, the child can paint or color the picture. Various prewriting practice strokes are included throughout the packet such as vertical lines, horizontal lines, diagonal lines, crosses, circles, triangles, wavy lines and more!

 

The 20 pictures to complete include: holiday tree, present, candle, ornament, star tree, stocking, snow globe, santa, reindeer, bell, hanging ornaments, holly wreath, gingerbread men, gingerbread house, snowflakes, candy canes, holiday lights, outdoor trees, fir tree and holiday tree with ornaments.

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Color By Copy - Visual Motor and Visual Spatial Activity

Download these free visual motor and visual spatial activities.  Simply color the picture on the right exactly like the picture on the left.  You can download color by copy freebie here http://yourtherapysource.com/freecolorbycopy

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Title: Color Coding
By: Your Therapy Source

Summary: 40+ pages to encourage visual discrimination and visual motor skills with color coding activities.  Find out more at http://yourtherapysource.com/colorcoding.html

 

Lines, Lines and More Lines Free Sample Pages

Here are two free sample pages from the latest download - Lines, Lines and More Lines.  Practice pre-writing strokes and pencil control with this fun packet.  You can get the freebies here http://yourtherapysource.com/linesfreebie.html

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Spring Time Tulips - Finish the Picture

Here is a Spring time freebie to practice visual motor skills and attention to detail with this tulip picture.  Download it at http://yourtherapysource.com/holidayspringfreebie.html

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Download the complete packet of Finish the Picture - Spring Edition here http://yourtherapysource.com/holidayspring.html

Wax String Activities

Here is a sample of some pages from the Wax String Activity book.  These activities encourage visual perceptual skills, eye hand coordination and kinesthetic learning.  Head on over to YourTherapySource at http://www.yourtherapysource.com/waxsample.html

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Easy Visual Motor Activity

Here is a simple activity to set up that incorporates fine motor and visual motor skills.

1.  Download the template for the activity at http://yourtherapysource.com/freeeasyvisual.html

2.  Ask the child to put stickers in each box.  If you do not have stickers, the child can cut out different shapes.  Glue the shapes in each box.

3.  Ask the child to trace over and around each shape.

That's it!  Super simple with materials that you have around the house or school.

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Visual Motor Bingo:  This download is a collection of 5 different bingo games to print and play. There are game boards for pre-writing skills, shape formation, letter formation (capital and lowercase) and number formation. You can print and create your own dice or use calling cards for the games. For letter and number formation there are two versions - you can trace dotted letters or trace over letters directly. To practice letter/number recognition you can just practice finding the letters/numbers instead of tracing.  FIND OUT MORE AT http://www.yourtherapysource.com/vingo.html

Step By Step Directions for a Mini Snowman Scene

After seeing this artist trading card idea at Art Projects for Kids (excellent website by the way), I thought this would make a wonderful craft projects for children who can benefit from practicing fine motor skills, scissor skills, sequencing, visual motor skills and creativity.

You can download the one page step by step directions fro the Mini Snowman Scene at http://yourtherapysource.com/freesnowmanscene.html.

The added bonus is if you make it artist trading card size you can have the children start a collection of their cards.  You can read more about artist trading cards and download a lesson plan at http://yourtherapysource.com/OTarttradingcards.html.

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Need more step by step projects to practice sequencing, scissor and visual motor skills?  Check out Cut, Sequence, Paste and Draw at http://yourtherapysource.com/cutsequencedrawaz.html and download a free sample page too!

Follow that Monster Visual Perceptual Activity

Challenge visual discrimination, visual spatial relationships and visual motor skills with this free printable.  Download just in time for Valentine's Day at http://yourtherapysource.com/vpvalentinefree.html

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Penguin Pencil Challenges Freebie

Get more information on the latest download - Penguin Pencil Challenges at http://www.yourtherapysource.com/pencilchallengespenguin.html



Here are some free sample pages from Penguin Pencil Challenges to practice visual motor skills. You can download them at http://www.yourtherapysource.com/pencilchallengespenguinfree.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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"Here Comes Santa Claus" Visual Motor Freebie

Practice visual motor skills and handwriting with this new freebie with a Santa Claus theme.  You can download it at http://yourtherapysource.com/freesantarace.html

Whooooo's There? Visual Motor Freebie

Download this visual motor and visual discrimination freebie at http://yourtherapysource.com/freethanksgivingowls2.html

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Homemade Painting Tools

Create these homemade painting tools with cardboard, scissors and clothes pins.  Children will practice cutting skills, hand strengthening and visual motor skills with this painting activity.  Watch the video at http://yourtherapysource.com/videopaintingtools.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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Freebie - Black and White Lines for Pre-Writing Practice

Download these FREE black and white line pages to practice horizontal, vertical, diagonal, zig zag and curved strokes.  You can download them for free in three different sizes depending upon the child's visual motor skills.

Visit http://www.YourTherapySource.com/freeblackwhiteprewriting for the downloads.

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5 Fine Motor Things to Do with Loom Bands Besides Making Bracelets

Ever wonder what else you could do with loom bands?  Here are 5 suggestions that encourage fine motor skills, visual motor skills and hand strengthening (and none of them are bracelets)!  Get all the directions at http://yourtherapysource.com/freeloombands.html

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Coloring Shape Stencils

How cool is this project?  It reminds me of a zentangle which I always find very calming to do.  There are two ways to complete this activity to encourage visual motor skills, grading of movements and visual spatial skills.

1.  Doodle Shape Stencils - Draw any random doodle all over a piece of paper with black marker.  The paper should not be too large.  Using stencils, trace a few shapes over the doodle.  Now color in the doodle inside the shape.  

2.  Printed Paper Shape Stencils - Print out a page from Geometric Patterns and Shapes Coloring Book or print out the freebie.    Using stencils, trace a few shapes over the page.  Only color inside the shapes.  

Want to make it easier?  Perhaps try these suggestions: outline each shape with dark marker so the child can clearly see the boundary lines or just color inside the entire shape instead of each intricate smaller doodle or shape.  

Want to change it up?  Use letter stencils and write a name instead of shape stencils.

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This download is a collection of 60 different geometric patterns and shapes to color. Challenge children's visual and fine motor skills while creating works of colorful art.  Find out more information at http://yourtherapysource.com/geometric.html

Twist (literally) on Puzzles Part #2

 I came across another idea on Pinterest about changing up puzzles.  Basically, using any picture or text that you would like, you can create a twisting puzzle.  For this example I printed out a picture on heavy duty cardstock that would wrap around this container with about an inch of overlap.  Cut the paper into strips.  I glued the bottom strip directly to the container so that it would not move.  Try and use a metal container (recycled can) so that is does not bend when doing the puzzle.

 Pictured below is all the strips already on the container.  I used tape to secure each strip.  You want them to be tight so they don't slip but not so tight that they do not rotate.  That is why the tape came in handy because I had to reposition it to get it just right.

 Now mix up the puzzle pieces.

 Give it to the child to twist back into place matching up the bottom strip. 

 Puzzle solved!

If it is too difficult for the child to twist the pieces of the puzzle you can add little paper tabs to each piece.  You may want to add these anyway for variety of solving the puzzle.

Instead of using pictures, you could put spelling or sight words on it.  It does make a nice fidget to use while learning.  Have fun!

This activity encourages:

• visual perceptual skills
• fine motor skills
• opening of the web space
• bilateral coordination
• grading of movement  

Visit YourTherapySource.com for more fine motor and visual perceptual activities.