![]() The teacher or occupational therapist might ask the child to form simple shapes, faces, letters or designs. This forces children to coordinate using both hands together and to pay attention to the direction of their movements. This activity promotes body awareness since if the child looks directly at one of her doodling hands, she will need to move the other hand without looking at it-by using her kinesthetic sense–that tells her how she is moving. In order to write children need to not only coordinate eyes and hands but coordinate using the eyes together as they move across the paper, fitting letters between lines. Tracing and forming shapes in the vertical plane while standing at a board positions the hands right in front of the eyes with the head comfortably straight rather than bent over a piece of paper on a desk. Lazy Eights and Double Doodle teach children how to perform written tasks by training their bodies and eyes using large movements so that they will eventually be able to do the same using smaller movements on paper.
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