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Elmer elephant outline3/31/2024 Filling in the missing parts of our Elmer works on this area. Visual Closure is the ability to fill in parts of a form in the mind’s eye to determine shape or a whole object. Visual Discrimination is determining differences in color, form, size, shape…Finding different sized squares to fit into the outline of our Elmer, discriminating the different colors, and shapes are a great way to work on this area. This Elmer building activity works on quite a few of these areas: There are many pieces to the giant term of “visual perception”. Visual perceptual skills in kids are necessary for so many things…from self-care to fine motor skills, to gross motor skills…all parts of a child’s development require visual perception. What a great way to work on visual perceptual skills, fine motor precision, dexterity, and line awareness! It was a fun puzzle to get the squares fitting into the outline. There were fingers everywhere, adding patchwork squares! Little Guy and I quizzed Baby Girl on her colors as we worked. This was such a great activity for both Little Guy and Baby Girl. We made our own patchwork elephant with lots of colors and had a great time building and creating while talking about color names. Let’s see those differences, accept them, and celebrate them! Those differences are what make us special. We all have different colors, shapes, interests, abilities, talents, and ideas. He teaches us about identity and tolerance. The book teaches us to accept differences because those differences are what make us who we are.Įlmer teaches us about diversity. He is funny, smart, caring, and an individual. Elmer is not only a colorful patchwork elephant. By exploring and interacting with his community of elephants, Elmer and the other elephants learn to accept and value his unique characteristics. He sticks out from the crowd of gray elephants. Elmer is a patchwork elephant with many colors. If you haven’t read Elmer by David McKee, this is definitely a book you need to check out. The lines were a great way to work on a few visual perceptual skills needed for handwriting. Little Guy was loving the puzzle-building portion of our activity. The colors in Elmer’s patchwork skin are perfect for Toddlers to practice naming colors. I loved throwing in the scissor work portion of the activity and working on a few important skills. My youngest daughter worked on her color identification and sorting. They loved creating and building our very own Elmer craft. Elmer’s colors made for a great way to help kids build fine motor skills and visual motor skills, too. Here are more books that teach empathy and friendship that can be used in therapy sessions or in the classroom or home. This Elmer the elephant activity can be used to illustrate differences, empathy, and friendship. This fine motor craft is a powerful one because it not only builds essential visual perceptual, visual motor, and fine motor skills, but it teaches as well. ![]() Add this book activity to your list of crafts based on children’s books that build skills through reading. This week’s book activity was so much fun to do with the kids, because it involved one of our favorite books (ever) and a great visual perception activity. We LOVE Elmer the Elephant…and all of the Elmer books. Every time we go to the library, we are sure to check the shelf for a new Elmer book that we may have missed. If you love the Elmer books as much as we do, then you will adore this Elmer the Elephant activity. Check out the Elmer the Elephant activity below that builds a baseline for these important skills, but also helps kids with fine motor skills, visual perceptual skills, and visual motor skills. Elmer teaches us about acceptance, friendship, and empathy. Through stories and colorful pictures that depict everyday elephant life, Elmer the elephant teaches us about diversity and differences. Elmer the patchwork elephant looks different than his friends.
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