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| Visual Discrimination Activity With Dot Stickers That’s Simple & Fun Posted: 31 May 2022 06:00 AM PDT Click here to read Visual Discrimination Activity With Dot Stickers That’s Simple & Fun on Hands On As We Grow® Here’s a fun and easy visual discrimination dot sticker activity that teaches children to see the similarities and differences in objects.  Visual discrimination activities help children learn to look at the details in visual images. These skills guide children in learning colors, shapes, position, size, and orientation. This is very important for learning to read and write and even understand the environment around us.
Dot Sticker Visual Discrimination ActivityI set up this activity the night before so it was ready to go in the morning. This was very simple and quick to make. I have learned over the past year and a half of doing activities with Riley that she focuses and enjoys them more in the morning. She loved this activity and wanted to do it twice!  For This Activity, You’ll Need:
How To Set Up Your Visual Discrimination ActivityFirst, I cut 2 sheets of paper into 12 pieces about the size of a post-it note. Next, I drew 12 squares on a piece of butcher paper. Then I added three dot stickers to each square on the butcher paper. I chose different colors and patterns for each square so none of them would be the same. I then put dot stickers on each cut out square to match the ones on the butcher paper. This way every square on the butcher paper had a matching cut out square. Once all the dot stickers were on, this visual discrimination activity was ready to go. I used tape on the corners of the butcher paper to keep it from moving around on the table. I placed the butcher paper and squares in front of Riley and told her to match the cut outs to the correct squares on the paper.  She did great matching the squares but had trouble positioning them the same way. Once you set up this visual discrimination activity, you can use it multiple times.  Adapt The Activity For Multiple Ages To EnjoyYou can make this activity easier by using less dot stickers on each square or using less total squares. If you need to make this visual discrimination activity harder, you can add more dot stickers or have the squares look very similar with only one change to each. For example, one square has blue, green, red, and purple and another square has blue, green, red, and yellow. Another fun idea is to use any kind of stickers! Just make sure you have double, one for the butcher paper sheet and one for the cut out squares. This is a great way to personalize it to your child’s interests. How Would You Design Your Visual Discrimination Activity? |
| Homemade Nature Suncatcher Wind Chimes for Kids to Make Posted: 30 May 2022 06:00 AM PDT Click here to read Homemade Nature Suncatcher Wind Chimes for Kids to Make on Hands On As We Grow®
I love a craft that is easy for the kids to do and had a pretty end result! Natural suncatcher wind chimes are both of those things. Start out by getting the kids involved and active. Send them into the backyard or take a walk to collect find flowers and leaves! We just went around the yard finding pretty colors of flowers and interesting leaves. We tried to keep everything small in size but didn’t limit to just that. You could definitely make this part an entire activity in itself and do a scavenger hunt for certain colors, textures, or shapes. We always love a good scavenger hunt, and nature ones are classic! Finding special things in nature is fun, but remember that a little bit will go a long way for this activity.
Once we collected our nature goodies, its time to set up to make a collage of it all. Don’t forget the extra special part: these double as gorgeous suncatchers, too! Homemade Nature Suncatcher Wind Chimes for Kids to MakeTo make your found nature into wind chime suncatchers, you’ll also need:
Cut a small piece of contact paper and trace the mason jar rings onto the contact paper side (not the part you peel off). Trace as many as you have rings for. Then peel the backing off the contact paper and tap onto the surface, sticky side up.
This is where the kids get to be as creative as they’d like! Hand over the stash of nature items they found and let them fill in those circles. We found it very cool to peel apart the flowers if they were big. To have a petal instead of a whole flower. Or if the flower was closed up or bell-shaped, we peeled it open to fan it out. They made for some gorgeous suncatchers!
Once their collages were complete, we finished off the suncatcher with another piece of contact paper over top. Press them as flat as you can, sticking the contact paper wherever you can.
Such pretty suncatchers already!
Then we cut them out. Along the circles we traced. Henry, my oldest who is 6, cut his himself. I went back over them to cut them a tad bit smaller though. We traced the outside of the mason jar ring. So to fit in the ring, they had to be slightly smaller.
Then I tied a knot around the rings using the string we had on hand. I simply pushed the suncatcher circles into the ring. We didn’t need to tape them, they stayed securely in place. But I can see that you may need to. I also tied the strings onto a stick to make them into a wind chime that we hung on our porch. Two actually, and I love looking at them!
I love the simplicity of the raw mason jar rings. But I also think it would be fun to spray paint them to give them color, too. However, I plan to use the lids again at some point for my jars, so I didn’t want to “ruin” them at this time.
The boys are so proud of their suncatcher wind chimes! They love them! And the sound they make is actually quite pleasant peaceful. I was nervous it would be clanky, but it’s actually quite nice.
How do you use natural materials in your DIY craft projects? |
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