Unwrapped – Free Holiday Visual Spatial Puzzle

Unwrapped – Free Holiday Visual Spatial Puzzle

This FREE holiday visual spatial puzzle is a fun challenge to complete on any holiday.  Many of you work in school districts where there can be no mention of a specific holiday.  This printable is secular – gifts and presents.  Maybe you celebrate Christmas, maybe Hannukah, maybe it is a birthday party, whatever the holiday can you guess what is inside each gift when it is unwrapped?

Children will have to use their visual skills to estimate the size and shape of the gift and which toy fits inside.  Draw a line from the gift to the correct toy.  It is in black and white for economical printing and cute illustrations suitable for all ages.

If you need more difficult visual-spatial activities, check out Visual Spatial Mazes.  Need more seasonal visual perceptual activities?  Check out all of these titles for throughout the year.

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Directionality Worksheet – Which Way is the Animal Facing?

Directionality Worksheet – Which Way is the Animal Facing?

Learning the concepts of left versus right can be very challenging for a child.  Even as an adult, many of us second guess ourselves when asked which way is right or left.  This skill is extremely important since many functional activities such as reading, counting, and map skills rely on left to right directionality.

This free directionality worksheet is from the Left or Right packet.  You need to draw a circle around all the animals facing right. Draw an ‘X’ on all the animals facing left.

To extend this activity, try having the children face in the same direction as the animal.  Move through the worksheet calling out random animal names.  The child has to say what direction the animal is facing and then repeat that action with his/her own body.  For example, if you say horse, the child has to say “the horse is facing left” and move his/her body to face left.

If you need more whole body activities to learn the concepts of directionality and left/right check out Right or Left Games.  This digital packet helps children to practice right and left discrimination, bilateral coordination, fine motor skills, balance skills, body awareness, motor planning and visual-spatial skills.

 

DOWNLOAD YOUR FREE LEFT OR RIGHT ANIMAL WORKSHEET

This activity is from the Left or Right worksheet packet.  Left or Right Worksheets digital download includes 20 black and white worksheets to help learn the concepts of left and right.  Directions include writing from left to right, coloring objects on the left or right, circle the correct direction, handwriting activities and more.  Encourage visual-spatial skills.

 

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Big Shape and Letter Puzzles – Visual Spatial Task

Visual Spatial and Working Memory Task

To use this free visual spatial and working memory task print out pages 2-4. Cut apart the cards. To practice visual spatial skills, place one card with dots and one blank board in front of the child. The child can use a dot marker, bingo chips or coins to copy the location of the dots on the blank board.

To add in visual memory, the child can study the card with the dots for a certain amount of time. Turn the card over. The child has to remember where to place the dots on the blank board.

There are also blank templates included to create your own patterns to vary the degree of difficulty.

DOWNLOAD the Visual Spatial and Working Memory Task

Here are some additional activities that encourage visual spatial and working memory skills.

Working Memory Exercises includes the materials to create 20 memory challenges (the 10 Level 1 exercises are in categories and the 10 Level 2 exercises are not categorized) recording sheets for each category in double lined (Handwriting without Tears® style), dotted lined (Zaner-Bloser® style) or regular lined paper and answer sheets. In addition, both levels come with additional visual cues if the exercises are too difficult. This download is great for classroom use, therapy sessions or to send home with a student. These activities are reproducible to print to use over and over again with all the children that you teach. FIND OUT MORE.

Mosaic Patterns Practice copying different patterns using various sizes and techniques to encourage different fine motor and visual perceptual skills. Also included is 7 different activity ideas to encourage different fine motor skills.  FIND OUT MORE.

Which Way? includes 16 directional arrow pages (large and small size) plus 6 boards to follow. The activities are available in varying degrees of difficulty. Children will practice moving right, left, diagonally, forwards, backwards, clockwise, down and up. Practice motor planning skills, visually scanning from right to left, understanding prepositional phrases and spatial awareness with this movement activity.  FIND OUT MORE.

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Figure Ground and Spatial Reasoning Activities

These two figure ground and spatial reasoning activities are free from the Crocodiles, Flamingos and Monkeys Visual Perceptual packet.  Can you count how many crocodiles are in the picture?  This figure ground activity can be printed to provide your students with a visual perceptual challenge.  Can you use spatial reasoning and visual motor skills to complete the monkey picture?

DOWNLOAD 2 FREE Figure Ground and Spatial Reasoning Activities.

Crocodiles, Flamingos and Monkeys Visual Perceptual Packet – This digital download includes 22 pages of worksheets to practice visual discrimination, spatial reasoning, figure ground, visual closure, form constancy, visual motor skills and coloring.  FIND OUT MORE INFORMATION.

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15 Free Visual Spatial Printables

The ability to determine spatial relationships is important in everyday tasks. You need to interpret what it means to “stand first in a line”, “sit in front of Johnny” or “put the pencil on top of the paper”. If a child has difficulty perceiving spatial relationships it can effect motor skills, body awareness, problem solving, activities of daily living and overall performance in school.

This is a list of 15 FREE visual spatial and visual motor printables from Your Therapy Source.

1. Brick Design Activity Pages
2. Visual Spatial Dog Maze
3. Move Like Me Freebie – challenge 4 kids to stand next to each other and copy the poses exactly
4. Eggsactly the Same
5. Road Puzzler
6. Frog Grid Drawing
7. Color Copy Challenge
8. Boat Tangram
9. Simon Says Freebie – make sure the right and left sides of the body match exactly
10. Find the Mouse
11. Puzzles on Paper Freebie
12. Fishy Fishy Graphing Game
13. Mosaic Fish
14. Graph Paper Drawing Freebie
15. Connect Puzzle Freebie

Check out more seasonal and holiday visual perceptual activities and printables!

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Visual Spatial Maze - Doggie to the Dog Bed Freebie

Download this FREE Visual Spatial Dog Maze here from the latest Visual Spatial Puzzles packet.

Eggsactly Logic Puzzle

Challenge visual spatial and visual discrimination skills with this puzzle.  Can you find the two cards that are exactly the same?  Download the puzzle Eggs-Actly the Same puzzle from Your Therapy Source.

Get more Spring Visual Perceptual Puzzles.    

Colored Caps - Fine Motor and Visual Spatial Activity

I happen to love colored dots and index cards so this activity is a win-win for me!  Plus it is super simple to set up, lightweight and small to toss into the therapy bag and can be modified in so many different ways.  

So all you need to do is start off with some blank index cards and draw a grid.  You can do a 2×2 grid to keep it simple or make the grid larger to make it more challenging.  

Take some recycled water bottle caps and place some colored stickers on the inside to make the colored caps.  Now put some stickers on one side on the grid.  

Give an index card to the child and he/she needs to match the colored cap on the other side of the grid.  You can turn the index card so sometimes the student is matching the dots from side to side and sometimes from top to bottom.

To modify this activity you could have the child use dot markers to match the colored sticker dots, peel and stick more colored dot stickers or draw colored circles.

You could change it up entirely with other more complex shapes or stickers.  If you want to use larger stickers use full size paper and recycled milk jug tops.  

Here is gross motor and fine motor activity using colored dot stickers– http://yourtherapysource.com/blog1/2014/03/13/gross-motor-and-fine-motor-activity-using-colored-dot-stickers/

Dot Phonics Mazes – Follow the dot path from the letter to the correct word that starts with that letter. There are 26 mazes each on half a page. There are also 8 different examples of how to differentiate the lesson such as using stickers, using dot markers coloring in the larger versus the smaller circles, pushing golf tees through the circles and more. This is a great activity for 
push in therapy ideas or for centers.  FIND OUT MORE.

Road Puzzler Freebie for Visual Motor and Visual Spatial Skills

Here is a fun but challenging freebie - the Road Puzzler.  Practice scissor skills, visual motor and visual spatial skills with this printable.  You can download Road Puzzler here http://www.YourTherapySource.com/freeroadpuzzler

Need more visual spatial and visual motor activities?  Check out Find the Animals.

Title of Electronic Book: Find the Animals
By:  Your Therapy Source, Inc
Summary:  This download is a set of 10 activities that challenge visual spatial, visual tracking and visual motor skills.  There are 10 find and color the animal activities or 10 find and draw specific shapes around the animal.
FIND OUT MORE here http://www.yourtherapysource.com/findanimals.html

Color Copy Challenge - Visual Spatial and Visual Motor Activity

Download this freebie to practice visual motor and visual spatial skills.  Copy the colors exactly or use the black and white version.  Player one colors in the top and player two copies the colors.  You can download it at http://yourtherapysource.com/freecolorchallenge.html

Practice copying different patterns using various sizes and techniques to encourage different fine motor and visual perceptual skills.  Find out more and download a freebie at http://www.yourtherapysource.com/mosaic.html

Visual Tracking and Visual Motor Freebie

Here is a FREE sample activity from Find the Animals.  Challenge visual tracking, visual spatial and visual motor skills with this activity.  You can download the free puzzles here http://yourtherapysource.com/findanimalsfreebie.html

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Get the complete download here http://yourtherapysource.com/findanimals.html

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

 

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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Visual Versus Verbal Prompts to Promote Visual Spatial Skills

Instructional Science  published research on the potential effect of an experimental visual–spatial intervention procedure and possible training benefits of two prompts: one group received training with verbal and visual prompts, a second group training with visual prompts only, while a third, control group did not receive any training.

The results indicated the following:

1.  the two training methods (verbal/visual or only visual prompts) led to significant improvements of performance in visuospatial tasks as compared to control group.

2.  both training methods improved visuospatial tasks about the same amount.

The researchers concluded that there are benefits to interventions targeting visuospatial processing skills.  The interventions did not seem to change based on age or gender.  It appeared that visual cues are particularly effective.

Reference:  Ellahe Chabani, Bernhard Hommel. Effectiveness of visual and verbal prompts in training visuospatial processing skills in school age children. Instructional Science
November 2014, Volume 42, Issue 6, pp 995-1012

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Crossing Paths: This download is a set of 24 puzzles that challenge
visual motor, visual spatial and motor planning skills.  Find out more at http://yourtherapysource.com/crossingpaths.html

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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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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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

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