Setting: in a home or classroom setting
Materials:
Pencil
Paper
Paintbrush
Paint
Paper plates
Q-Tips
Instructions:
1. Put paint in a paper plate.
2. Take paper and pencil and draw a circle in the middle of the paper.
3. Next either have the individual paint the tree trunk with the paintbrush or do it before hand.
4. Next have the individual take the q-tips and dab it in the paint and create leaves in the circle using paint q-tip dabs.
Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to increase fine motor skill by enhancing pinch grip of a q-tip to make writing better and strengthen small hand muscles that are needed to perform independent ADL's and IADL's. Regulation and following directions is needed in order for them to stay within the circle and not go outside. Hand eye coordination is needed for this activity to understand where to put the dots and to recognize the circle itself. Midline crossing could also be used in this activity by making the circle to put the q-tip dabs larger so they would have to cross the midline to fill up the entire circle.
Fatto, Natale. (September 20, 2011). Q-Tip Art.
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