How Many Shapes Do You See?

How many do you see? This lets your child explore shapes using their sight. They can color in the shapes as well.

Do-a-dot Eye Tricks

Have your child wear an eye patch (or find a way to cover one eye) Print the same page 3 times. First, have them do the page with both eyes. Then have them do a Do-a-dot page with one eye and then with the other. This will show them how using both eyes help them. (If you don’t have the dot paints, then you can use stickers).

Arts & Crafts

What can you look through to see things differently? Binoculars! Create your own binoculars using toilet paper rolls, decorate them however you want – crayons, markers, paint, stickers, and glue them together. We will use these later for our outdoor activity. (Click here for ideas)

Can You Build It?

Build with Lego (or other blocks you have) and describe what you built to your child. Then have them recreate what you built just by description. (I.e. first a flat light blue piece, a six-red

piece, and then a person on top). Depending on their level/age they can describe it to you to make it. This teaches them how our eyes help us see things.

Games

Guess Who – If you have the game Guess who you can play – this is a great way to see how you use your eyes to observe things.

If you don’t have the game, then you can play Pictionary – Have one person draw a picture and the other guess what it is. This is a great way to explore how our eyes help us decide what it is we see.

Suncatcher

Make a suncatcher – There are different ways to do this. Here are a few