OT Activity of the Day:
Name/Number Turkey
Target Age Range: 4 and up
This activity was designed to work on name writing, hand strength, bilateral coordination, and visual motor skills. This is what we did!
First we cut out the turkey’s body (I drew a circle on a piece of paper and the child cut it out). Then we went to work on cutting out the feathers. Cutting is a great way to work on visual motor skills and bilateral coordination! After everything was cut, the child wrote his/her name on their feather of choice. This is a great way to practice name writing and writing within a given space, both good skills to have! Once the name was written, we rolled the dice three times and wrote a number rolled on each feather (for some kids I wrote the number and for others they wrote the number, the focus was more on the name and hole punching than number writing, however you can always adjust that for your version!). We then used the hole puncher (great tool for building hand strength) to punch the corresponding holes in the feathers. The last step was to glue the feathers to the turkey’s body.
If you have a Preschooler, Pre-K child in your household, then this is the perfect activity for you! Bonus is you have a fancier hole puncher that punches shapes other than a circle:).
Enjoy!