#MAKE YOUR OWN EYESPY PAGE HOW TO#

I would be lying if I told you it was easy, maybe it would have been with no kids but I had an infant in my arms while taking every picture and a 4 year old helper wanting to “help”.

#MAKE YOUR OWN EYESPY PAGE HOW TO#

Add a little silver glitter to mimic snow.When I saw this post by Jenae over at I Can Teach My Child ( who will be a guest poster tomorrow so don’t miss it! ) my head was running with ideas on how to make something similar. Practice writing numbers in shaving cream.Use red and green sand to stick with the holiday theme or get inspired to use other materials/textures from ideas here: Writing Trays for Handwriting Use sand trays to practice numeral formation.Bend red and white “candy cane” pipe cleaners into the numbers your students need to practice.Hot Chocolate Playdough is another fun sensory idea from The Simple Parent.And for an even more sensory experience try Candy Cane Play Dough from.If snow is more your style, try this snow dough recipe from A Spotted Pony – Snow Dough Recipe.Here is a link make your own from Learning4Kids – Gingerbread Scented Playdough Recipe Forming the numbers using gingerbread scented playdough.You could extend this activity to include a kinesthetic component by: Engagement and participation are the keys to learning! More ways to use this Christmas I Spy Printable You will find that when you design an intervention to include a sensory, tactile, or movement experience, your students will be instantly engaged. Occupational therapists are uniquely trained to provide these types of kinesthetic learning experiences to students. Here is a place where you can take this pencil/paper task and make it a kinesthetic learning experience for your students! Many students need kinesthetic learning experiences or the opportunity to touch, move, and feel in order to learn. After they find and color each picture, they will need to write the number in the box. Work on Number formation with a Christmas I Spy Activityįinally, Christmas I Spy provides your students with an opportunity to address number formation. Not only would this take away some of the demand for struggling students, but it would also allow you to model visual scanning skills at the same time. Visual scanning is a function of the oculomotor system that involves using the eyes in a coordinated way to scan the environment for information.įor students who may have difficulty with visual scanning, try teaching strategies such as moving a ruler down the page as they track across, encourage them to scan in an organized manner from left to right, or you can reduce the demand by asking “can you find 3 candy canes”, for example.Īnother way to support students who may have difficulty with visual perceptual tasks such as I Spy, would be to take turns finding the different pictures. Visual scanning is also an important skill that will be addressed with Christmas I Spy. Visual memory is essential in reading and writing, but it is also important for completing tasks like Christmas I Spy in an efficient way.Īs the students begin to work, they will be using their visual memory and scanning skills together to recall where they have seen each picture. Visual memory is the ability to retain and recall visual information. This activity is also great for addressing visual memory. The students can circle each picture working on their fine motor dexterity skills or they could color each small picture.

This is a strategy you can teach them to support their visual discrimination skills. Encourage your students to use a different color for each picture they find. Using their visual discrimination skills, ask your students to identify each of the pictures at the bottom. Support Visual Skills with a Christmas I Spy Then, focus their attention to the bottom of the page to the pictures they will look for during the activity. You can begin using this worksheet with your students by asking them to name some of the pictures they see on the page. There are many components of visual perception that play a role in our student’s performance at school, but this activity primarily addresses visual discrimination and visual memory. Visual perceptual skills are foundational to reading and writing. Some of the skills addressed with Christmas I Spy will target the components of visual perceptual skills. The best part of this worksheet is that it can target so many skills at once! It’s the busiest time of the year and this Christmas I Spy is a no prep printable you can take from the printer right to your therapy sessions with your students.

Make your own eyespy page