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We shared a great bubble wrap activity yesterday and are continuing again today with another fun learning through play activity with the awesomeness of bubble wrap! This time we did some visual scanning to work on letters of Little Guy’s name, letter sounds (a great pre-reading activity!), color awareness with Baby Girl, and eye-hand coordination as we popped the bubbles. Sounds like a super fun way to play and learn, right?!?
Visual Motor activities are very important to the pre-hand writer…and new handwrites, too. Learning to place those letters on the lines and be aware of how much space is left on the page is part of visual-motor skills. So is line awareness when cutting. And even, moving with large muscles as we carry items in the home or classroom. We have to be aware of how much space is around us and this is where visual-motor awareness comes into play.
Visual scanning (scanning with the eyes across a page, for example) and hand-eye coordination (using the hands in a coordinated manner based on what the eyes are telling us) are both part of Visual Motor Skills. Visual Motor activities are a fun way to play while working on these important skills.
 
Visual Motor Activity to work on visual scanning and hand-eye coordination
We started our fun with these funny faces stickers from www.craftprojectideas.com/. We received them free of charge and have been loving the silly faces in our crafts. The colors were perfect for this activity. Baby GIrl stuck the stickers onto a piece of paper and together we worked on colors. She can tell me some of the colors, but most of the time, needs help. These stickers were a fun way to practice!
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Once the stickers were in place, I taped a piece of bubble wrap on top of the stickers. Now we were ready to get to popping!
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He had to visually can the paper to locate the color he needed. Pushing hard enough with the marker provided a nice “pop” when he dabbed the bubble. Using his hands in a coordinated way to dab the correct bubble worked on hand-eye coordination. Because of the bubble wrap on top of the stickers, he had to make sure it was aligned correctly.
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Next, we tried this with the letters in his name. I had extra letters, plus the letters in his name and asked him to dab all of the ones that he needed for his name. Scanning across the page in all directions was fun way to explore letter identification as he visually scanned top to bottom and side to side. He again worked on those hand-eye coordination skills as he popped the correct bubbles.
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This is a great idea! Hopefully my daughter will get over her fear of bubble wrap so we can try this sometime when she is older! 😉
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