Tactile Perception (sometimes referred to as touch perception) is the brain’s ability to understand (perceive) what the hands are feeling.
Fill the plastic container with rice and/or beans.
Hide the puzzle pieces in the rice/beans mixture.
Have the child search for the pieces using his hands (if the child is tacitly sensitive, you may try to put gloves on his hands or let him use tongs or tweezers).
Once the child has all the pieces, ask the child to put the puzzle together.
Use the wooden sticks or craft sticks as the airplane wings.
Let the child paint or color the sticks with markers and decorate with stickers.
Once sticks are dry, instruct the child to glue on stick at the bottom of the clothespin and one stick at the top.
Using pincer grasp, instruct the child to pinch and open the clothespin while placing the third wing in the middle.
You can have the child glue the middle stick or do not glue the middle wing to allow the child to practice his grasp by removing the middle stick for a two wing airplane model.
Let the child cut the following pieces:
– 4-inch circle out of brown or black construction paper
– Stem (12-inch by 3-inch rectangle) and leaves out of green construction paper.
Use a large construction paper as the background and glue the stem from the bottom up. Glue the leaves to the stem.
Paint the child’s palms with yellow paint and instruct him to print his palms on the top part of the paper to form the flower petals.
Glue the 4-inch brown/black circle in the middle of the palm prints.
On a piece of construction paper, either draw a picture of a tree trunk and branches or have the child draw one for you.
Then give them a paper plate with 3 small dots of different colors of paint.
Ask them to dip one finger at a time into the paint and “dot” onto the trees to make the leaves.
For a fall tree, dot some paint at the bottom as well or along the sides as if the leaves are falling.
Draw 2″ circles on the cardboard sheets. Cut them out, or let the child cut them if the cardboard is not too thick.
Instruct the child to cut 4 narrow slots on each circle, about 1/2″ deep, leaving about 1″ space between slots. Slots need to be as wide as the cardboard is.
Provide the child with different size paper rolls (i.e. toilet paper rolls, paper towels rolls, etc.).
Note: You can use one size roll and cut it into different sizes.
Instruct the child to cut 4 narrow slots on each edge of the roll, leaving about 1″ space between slots. Slots need to be as wide as the cardboard is.
Have the child color the paper rolls.
Let the child connect between the rolls to build structures and sculptures.
