Pumpkin Visual Discrimination and Scanning Activity

Pumpkin Visual Discrimination and Scanning Activity

Here is a fun pumpkin visual discrimination and scanning activity.  Print out the black and white page (get access to the FREE download at the bottom of the post).  Grab a timer and 3 different colored dot markers (or any colored markers).  On GO, students have to use their visual discrimination, visual scanning, visual tracking and visual motor skills to find one pumpkin at a time while they scan from left to right and top to bottom.  Be careful not to mark the wrong ones!  Some of the pumpkins look very similar.

Want more Ready, Set, Scan activities?  Check out the complete Ready, Set, Scan digital download.

Find out more information about the complete Ready, Set, Scan digital download.

Want more timed games?  Check out Speed Match, Motor Minute Challenges and Set the Record.

Need more pumpkin ideas?

This Pumpkin Packet includes 11 no-prep, FUN activities to get children practicing fine motor, gross motor, and visual perceptual skills. The digital download is great for brain breaks, indoor recess, classroom party and more!  FIND OUT MORE INFORMATION.

 

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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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Smile Find – Visual Scanning Visual Discrimination Activity

Check out this fun freebie to challenge visual scanning and visual discrimination skills.  You can download it for free by signing up for our newsletter at the end of the post.  Can you find all 14 smile faces that look different from all the rest?  Grab a yellow highlighter and give it a go.  It is certainly tricky to scan the whole paper to find only the 14 smiles faces that look slightly different.  So get those visual scanning and visual discrimination skills ready and give it a go!

If you need more visual scanning activities check out Ready, Set, Scan – this digital download includes 12 visual scanning and discrimination activities. How fast can you scan, find and mark each item? There are 12 challenges in all with different themes including: shapes, animals, fruit, party, travel and babies. Just print and start the search. Follow the directions: start a timer, scan for one object at a time, mark each object and stop the timer. Record your time in the box provided. Dot markers work great for marking the item. Use a different color dot marker for each item.

Need more visual discrimination activities?  Check out this figure ground and visual discrimination bundle for a huge selection of activities at a discounted price!

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Visual Perceptual Find and Color – School

Here is a visual perceptual freebie Find and Color for back to school from the School Doodle Find packet.  Challenge your student’s visual scanning and visual motor skills with this activity.  Can you find and color the 7 different school items?

DOWNLOAD the School Doodle Find freebie.

This freebie is from School Doodle Find, a visual perceptual game that includes 4 different game boards, 6 recording pages and 5 Find and Color pages. This game requires no preparation – just print and play! In addition, there are directions included to create a travel version of the game. This activity challenges visual tracking, visual scanning, visual discrimination and visual motor skills.  Print off multiple copies for your students and your activities are ready to go! Find out more about School Doodle Find.

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Find the Differences Visual Discrimination Puzzle

Can you use your visual discrimination and visual scanning skills to find and circle the five differences in this picture?  Download this freebie from the Find the Differences Packet.

The best thing about this puzzle is that it is not too difficult.  Some of the puzzles that are available for children to spot the differences are very hard to complete and children get frustrated.  These puzzles are all in black and white and present a child with a “just right” challenge.

Find out more information about the complete packet at Find the Differences.

This download includes 30 find the differences puzzles and the solutions to the puzzles.  Find 5 differences between the two pictures on each page.  All the pages are in black and white.  There are plenty of find the difference activities around but many are just way too difficult.  This collection is easier to determine the differences between the pictures.  Find the Difference encourage visual scanning, visual discrimination and visual motor skills.  FIND OUT MORE.

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Find and Color Christmas Doodles

Find and Color Christmas Doodle is the latest freebie from a new download - Christmas Doodle Find.  This is a fun, no prep activity to practice visual tracking, visual discrimination and visual motor skills.  Find out more information at http://www.yourtherapysource.com/doodlechristmas

New Printable - Find and Color Your Name

Here is a simple activity to help children work on visual scanning, visual discrimination, letter identification and coloring skills.  If the child can not color in the lines, you could use dot markers or colored stickers to identify the letters in the child's name.  You can download it at Your Therapy Source here http://yourtherapysource.com/freefindname.html

 The Letter Hunt ebook includes 26 hunt and find puzzles. For each letter of the alphabet you find and circle 13 upper case letters and 13 lower case letters. Use a pencil to circle the letters, small stickers, dot markers and color in the picture when completed. The ebook is in black and white.  Download a sample page with some ideas of how to use the letter hunts at http://yourtherapysource.com/letterhunt.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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Classroom Displays and Children's Ability to Focus

Is the picture above hard to read?  Of course it is - text on a busy background is difficult to see.  One thing that really bothers me in a classroom is excessively decorated walls.  I frequently walk into a classroom and am shocked at the visual overstimulation.  There are patterns, pictures and words hanging all over the place.  Sometimes not just on the walls but from the ceiling and "clothes line" rope across the room.  Now imagine you are a young student and need to focus on the teachers, it can be quite difficult with all the visual stimulation in the room.  Another pet peeve I have is when assignments are hanging on patterned paper - it makes it so much harder to focus on the information that a student needs to read or copy down.  Many times I may make a gentle recommendation to decrease the display for a particular student.  But, I am always careful not to step on any toes - at the end of the day it is the teachers room to set up not mine.  But, now there is some simple research to back up what us therapists may recommend in the school setting.   

Psychological Science published research indicating that children in highly decorated classrooms were more distracted, spent more time off-task and demonstrated smaller learning gains than when the decorations were removed.  The 24 kindergarteners were placed in laboratory classrooms that were heavily decorated or sparsely decorated and taught lessons.  The following results were seen: 

• children learned in both classroom types but they learned more when the room was not heavily decorated.  Children's accuracy on the test questions was higher in the sparse classroom(55 percent correct) than in the decorated classroom(42 percent correct).


• the rate of off-task behavior was higher in the decorated classroom (38.6 percent time spent off-task) than in the sparse classroom (28.4 percent time spent off-task).

Even though it is a small study and more research needs to be done, it is a start.

Reference:  Medical Express. Heavily decorated classrooms disrupt attention and learning in young children.  Retrieved from the web at http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-05-heavily-classrooms-disrupt-attention-young.html#nwlt on 5/28/14.

Modifications and Interventions for School - Reporting Forms provides pediatric
therapists with over sixty, reproducible reporting forms with hundreds of suggested modifications and interventions for students. Interventions are listed by skill areas such as handwriting, scissors, dressing, walking, stairs, wheelchair skills and sensory skills. This book is a great tool for all school based therapists and teachers to determine what modifications and interventions are successful for a particular student. Find out more at http://yourtherapysource.com/modifications.html

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Letter Hunt Freebie

Letter Hunt Freebie

Download the letter Bb hunt to find 13 upper case and 13 lower case letters.  You can circle the letters, place stickers over the letters, use dot markers or color in the picture.  Head over to http://www.yourtherapysource.com/letterhuntfreebie to download the letter Bb hunt.