Page 9 - Perceptual skills development

TIPSY TOWER

• Children have their 6 bricks randomly placed, out in front
of them.
• Pick up your dark blue brick, place it standing up on a
short end, studs facing you.
• Use that same hand to pick up any brick next and
balance it on top, also on its short end.
• Repeat this action until you have balanced all 6 bricks.

Q: Who can do it the fastest?

Variations:
• Repeat this exercise using your non-dominant hand /
alternate hands.

Q: Can you do this exercise by using your thumb and
forefinger only to pick up and place the bricks?

• Alternate right and left hands to remove each brick one
at a time - can you do it without knocking all the bricks
over?

5 BRICK

DRAW

• Children work individually with their 6 bricks
placed randomly in front of them.
• Teacher builds a sequence of bricks
horizontally on the table using 5 bricks.
• The 6th brick is placed at a different angle and
is used as the starting point of this exercise.
• Teacher gives the following instructions:
• Move the 2nd brick to the last place on the
sequence.
• Move the 2nd last brick to the end.
• Move the 2nd brick to last place but leave a
space of one brick before placing it, etc.

Q: Is your sequence the same as the
teacher’s?

• Complete similar activities
involving visual spatial
relationships.

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