Tactile Perception (sometimes referred to as touch perception) is the brain’s ability to understand (perceive) what the hands are feeling.
Have the child throw the dice.
The child will then need to pop the corresponding number of bubbles that the dice are showing.
You can also use a timer to time how long it takes the child to pop a certain amount of bubbles.
If the sound of popping interferes with the child’s ability to complete the activity, you may want to try and do this activity outdoors.
Using the pencil and the ruler, mark the toilet roll every 2 inches and draw around the tube. These will be cutting lines we will use to create the paper roll caterpillar body.
Take the scissors and cut around the marks you have made so that you are left with several short tubes.
Paint the tubes both on the inside and outside, it is more effective if you paint the outside a different color to the inside.
Glue the tubes to each other, end to end, putting one tube aside to use for the head later.
Glue the head tube on the top of the last tube in the chain.
Using the glue, stick the two wiggle eyes on the head.
Draw a mouth just below the wiggle eyes.
Using the felt or the pipe cleaners, cut two short pieces and stick onto the top of the head to make antenna.
Cut two more pieces for each body section the caterpillar has and stick these onto the bottom to create legs.
Place the beads in an open container.
Ask the child to dip the paint brush in glue or for tactile perception use his fingers. Cover one side of the plastic container with glue.
Using 2 fingers pick up one bead at a time and stick it on the plastic container.
Rotate the plastic container and repeat covering each side with glue and sticking beads on it.
For grading, use the tweezers to pick up the beads and stick on the plastic container.
On a sheet of construction paper, sketch a simple picture, or allow the child to draw a picture/shape.
Using the glue, instruct the child to trace the outline of the picture.
Once the picture is outlined with glue, ask the child to pick up one bean or button at a time, and glue it along the outline of the picture.
If you wish to promote translation skills (finger to palm and palm to finger), ask the child to pick up 2 or more beans, transferring them one at a time into the palm of their hand, then transfer them out, one at a time, to be glued on the outline.
Let the child continue pasting the reminder of the beans on the picture, putting the beans close to each other.
To grade the activity up, provide the child with tweezers to pick up the beans.
Use larger buttons or pom-poms to grade the activity down.
Have the child crumple the newspapers into small paper balls.
Stuff the paper bag with the crumpled newspapers.
Use the yarn or a ribbon to tie a knot close to the edge of the open end to close the paper bag.
Ask the child to paint the filled paper bag using either a brush or cotton balls.
Glue large googly eyes.
For grading, you can ask the child to draw eyes on construction paper and cut/glue it onto the paper bag.
Lay a piece of yarn on the fish (below the eyes) to make a mouth. Use some glue to hold it in place.
To promote tactile perception, you can let the child finger paint the paper bag instead of using other media.
