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Motor Skills Activity: Giant Dot-to-Dot

February 27, 2013

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Giant dot-to-dot activity for large and small motor skill activities

Large + Small Motor Skills Activity: Giant Dot-to-Dot!

A fun fine and gross motor skills activity is a giant dot-to-dot. You may remember New Kid working on his toddler dot-to-dot a few years back, and now he likes to get down with his marker on the floor.  I love the way a giant floor connect-the-dots activity gets him exercising both his small and large motor muscles together.

You don’t need to arrange the dots to reveal a picture when connected. I simply drew large dots and numbers in a random pattern on a large piece of butcher paper. For this particular puzzle, I used several colors, so it was easier for him to locate sequential numbers: 1-5 were blue, 6-10 were green and so forth. He enjoyed this activity so much he wanted to do it again, but I didn’t even need to make a new one, he simply chose a different colored pen.

A giant dot to dot gets kids exercising fine and gross motor skills

See how he needs to stretch, reach and move! New Kid’s occupational therapist informed me that working large groups of muscles is important for developing the small motor skills, that I should not limit our therapy exercises to just fine motor skill practice. Plus, I love that the giant dot-to-dot sneaks in a bit of counting practice, too!

Math + fine motor + gross motor = a Giant Dot-to-dot!

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by: Erica posted in: Motor Skills 17 Comments

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  1. Jenny says

    February 27, 2013 at 8:52 pm

    I love that idea- Carly would too, I know! What do you use for paper?

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    • MomandKiddo says

      February 28, 2013 at 2:20 pm

      I bought a large roll of butcher paper at Discount School Supplies. It’s lasted me several years. You can get through amazon, too, I think.

      Reply
  2. maryanne @ mama smiles says

    February 28, 2013 at 10:02 am

    Brilliant idea! Definitely trying this with my kids!

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    • MomandKiddo says

      February 28, 2013 at 2:22 pm

      I hope you take photos and share! 🙂

      Reply
  3. katepickle says

    February 28, 2013 at 6:58 pm

    Such a clever yet simple idea! So awesome!!!

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  4. PragmaticMom says

    February 28, 2013 at 6:59 pm

    I love this! Math and gross motor and pure fun!!! You are a genius!

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    • MomandKiddo says

      March 1, 2013 at 10:25 am

      Make sure you tell my kids that! hahahaha

      Reply
  5. Valerie says

    March 1, 2013 at 8:07 am

    What a fabulous idea! I absolutely must try this. A great combination of fine and gross motor. I love that it’s a big scale. Makes dot-to-dot different. Thanks for sharing.

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    • MomandKiddo says

      March 1, 2013 at 10:26 am

      Even my older son like to do it!

      Reply
  6. Jessica @ Play Trains! says

    March 3, 2013 at 3:17 am

    What a fun idea! Pinning this to try with my son.

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    • MomandKiddo says

      March 3, 2013 at 3:44 am

      Maybe he can connect the dots with trains!

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  7. E.S. Ivy says

    March 9, 2013 at 8:42 am

    What a cute and easy idea! Kids really like things that are oversized; my kids enjoy drawing things on giant pieces of paper.

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    • Erica says

      March 9, 2013 at 2:08 pm

      Yes, he likes the change from just sitting at the table.

      Reply
  8. Rebecca says

    March 10, 2013 at 4:24 am

    What a brilliant activity – I love it!

    Thanks for sharing on The Sunday Showcase. I’ve pinned to our board.

    Reply
    • Erica says

      March 10, 2013 at 6:53 am

      Thanks, Rebecca!

      Reply
  9. Jo and Lilly from BIG kids mag says

    March 30, 2014 at 9:32 am

    We love this BIG time 🙂

    Reply
    • Erica MomandKiddo says

      March 30, 2014 at 10:21 am

      Thank you!

      Reply

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