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                                                      Activities to help boost child’s skills:

 

Improving fine motor/motor planning skills

  • Bear walks
  • Crab walks
  • Hop on one foot
  • Hopscotch
  • Twister
  • Cutting
  • Drawing/Painting/Writing at an easel
  • Playdoh
  • Using tweezers to pick up small items (beads, cereal, etc.)
  • Playing card games
  • Playing board games with small pieces to move
  • Team sports
  • Gymnastics

 

Improving visual perception

  • Tire swing
  • Simon Says
  • Hidden pictures (Where’s Waldo etc.)
  • Mazes
  • Connect the dots
  • Puzzles
  • Memory game
  • Matching games
  • Copying games

 

 

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