FREEBIE: 5-PAGE HOLIDAY-THEMED VISUAL PERCEPTUAL ACTIVITY PACKET

FREE FOR SUBSCRIBERS!

Don’t you just love the holidays?

I do.  Especially at school with the kids.  There are so many fun things going on: concerts, holiday boutiques, holiday parties, Secret Santas, and all kinds of jolliness.

Sometimes it can be hard to keep those kids engaged, though.  They are overstimulated by all the music, busy decorations,  sweet treatments, and holiday excitement.

At times like this, I love to have some fun activities or worksheets to do with the kids on my OT caseload. This year, I’m focusing on visual perceptual skills.

I’ve created a Holiday-Themed Visual Perceptual Activities packet that I can use with all of my kids – from my Kindergarteners to my Middle Schoolers.  Some of the activities are very simple, while others are pretty tough.

All of the pages are black and white – because coloring is great fine motor work! To work on shoulder stability, have the kids do these worksheets on a vertical surface or while laying on their tummy!

My Free Holiday Themed Visual Perceptual Activities packet works on the following skills:

Visual Discrimination: This is the ability to notice and compare the features of an item to match or distinguish it from another item; distinguishing a P from an R, matching shapes to complete a puzzle, etc.

Visual Figure Ground: This is the ability to find something in a busy background; finding the red crayon in a messy supply box, or finding the milk in a packed fridge, as well as finding a bit of specific text on a busy printed page.

Visual Closure: This is the ability to know what an object is when you can only see part of it; recognizing a word when you only see a part of it, recognizing a picture by looking at half of it

Visual-Spatial Awareness: This is the ability to understand where objects are in relation to each other; spacing letters and words correctly, understanding maps and graphs, understanding personal space.

Form Constancy: The ability to recognize that a picture is still the same picture, even though it may look bigger, smaller, or be turned to face a different way.

Left-Right Awareness:  Children need to understand that we read and write from left to right.  It’s  also important for them to be able to distinguish their left hand from their right hand.

Visual Scanning and Tracking: This is the ability to use the eyes to scan smoothly from left to right, up and down, and across midline without the eyes skipping or losing their place.

 

 

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