Page 7 - Perceptual skills development

DISCOVER 6 BRICKS 2

• Children place 4 of their bricks in random
order (horizontally, lengthways) in front of
them.
• Take your 2 remaining bricks, one in each
hand; cross your arms over and place those
bricks, one at each end of the row of bricks.
• Stare at the middle of your row - can you tell
what the colour brick on the extreme left / right
is?
• Cross your arms over again and pick up the
2nd and 5th bricks - swop their places in the
row as you uncross your arms.
• Cross arms over again - pick up the 2 inside
bricks and swop them over as you uncross
your arms.
• Cross your arms again - pick up the 2 end
bricks - using your thumb and forefinger only
and gripping one stud only - as you uncross
your arms, swop the places of the bricks.

Q: Can you do the last exercise using
a thumb and middle finger; thumb and ring

finger; thumb and pinkie?
TOUCH AND

FEEL

• Both children have their 6 bricks in front of them.
• Child No. 1 is blindfolded.
• Child No. 2 connects any 2 bricks in any way, and
passes them to Child No. 1, who feels the bricks.
• Child No. 1 then attempts to build that same model
whilst still blindfolded.
• Remove the blindfold and check your model against
the original. (colour is irrelevant)

Variations:
• Increase the number of bricks depending on the
level of the child.

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