What’s Missing Visual Motor Activity for Kids

This fun visual motor activity is a great way to work on drawing/prewriting skills while also addressing visual perception.

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If you’re familiar with visual perception skills, you might know about a fascinating skill called visual closure.  Visual closure is the ability to complete an unfinished figure or shape by “filling in the blanks’ visually.  This skill is important as kids learn to read and learn to complete puzzles by figuring out what is missing.  Visual closure is why we’re able to read quickly and fluently – we don’t have to stop and look at each individual letter in a word because our eyes and brain fill in the blanks for us!

Today’s visual motor activity is a fun way to address visual closure and kids will also get a dose of drawing and prewriting practice too!

Looking for other fun drawing activities? Try these free printable drawing challenge cards!

What you’ll need:

-Free What’s Missing Printable (fill out the form below)

What to do:

Print the free printable page.  Have kids use markers or crayons to complete the drawing of each person on the page.  They can add the missing features in whichever order they’d like, or try using the online spinner (CLICK HERE) to select one feature to add at a time!

Find basic drawing templates for kids, learn more about why drawing matters from a child development perspective, and find the best drawing tools for toddlers and young kids.

For Virutal Sessions:

-Send along the printable for the family to print ahead of time.  Pull the spinner up on screen share and spin it to show which missing feature the child should add to the drawing.

-Instead of printing, send the family the jpg version of the What’s Missing page.  Have them pull up the Chrome Canvas app, click “New from image”, and select the What’s Missing image.  From here, the child can draw right on the screen, using a stylus with a tablet or using a mouse on a computer.

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Lauren Drobnjak is co-author of The Inspired Treehouse blog and a pediatric physical therapist who currently practices in the educational environment. She has been a physical therapist for 18 years, with 17 of those years specifically in pediatrics. Her drive to make a difference in the lives of kids has led her entrepreneurial spirit in the direction of creating opportunities for play-based wellness and child development. She is a busy mama of 3 who thrives on chaos. To come down from the stress, Lauren enjoys exercising like she’s still 20, yoga, chocolate, a great book, browsing Pinterest, and anything crafty!

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