Connect the Polka Dots

Materials:      
Large piece of white paper
Sticky dots from the Dollar Store
Markers or crayons

Directions:  Stick the dots all over the paper in a random fashion. You can use multicolored dot stickers if that’s what you have. Give your child a marker or crayon and encourage him to make marks on the paper. We tried drawing circles around the dots, drawing dots right on the stickers, and eventually drawing lines from one dot to another. This is a great activity for refining your child’s eye-hand coordination, which is the processing of visual cues to direct the movement of the hands. This is an important part of the learning process and comes into play as your child is tracking print across the page, grabbing something, or even catching a ball!

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