Let's Learn to Move and Build (3-5)

Visuospatial skills are really important to develop in young children so they can use them in their future schooling. These skills pertain to a person’s ability to identify the relationships between objects and manipulate them to fit certain spatial dimensions. Here are some ways to help your children develop these skills:

• Set up obstacle courses for your children to explore. Use whatever you have available: a playground, couch cushions, or even bushes in the yard. It is important to provide a variety of tasks for your children to complete like running, hopping, crawling, etc. Involve your child in the design and building process, which can help children develop creativity and critical thinking skills.

• Give children blocks and allow them to build things.

• Play Simon Says with your child(ren).

• Give them half of a drawn pattern and ask them to draw the other half.

Even though these activities are important and helpful, one of the most important things you can do is talk to children about what they experience and do things with them.