Activities to Encourage the Use of Vision

Exercises for hand-eye coordination Dot-to dot patterns, start with dots 1cm apart up to 4 cm apart can they find the dots? Can they join them? If they join them in the right sequence a shape is created, e.g. a triangle Pictures, e.g., following numbers 1 to 2 to 3.... to 50. By drawing in the right order, a picture will emerge, e.g. an elephant Dark wavy line- let the child trace over the line with a finger Draw lines -use a finger between a pattern made of 2 parallel lines

Exercises for matching, counting, memory and sequencing of colours, figures and numbers

• Rows with the same pictures - all but 2 have different sizes or colours, find the ones of the same size or colour
• Rows of numbers with one number different; circle the odd one out.
  Start with size about 1cm.
  

  Example

• Dominoes (can be coloured or black and white