Ten ways to use stickers for fine motor control: Start with a sticker sheet. If a student struggles to peel stickers, pre-peel the background. This helps the student identify the sticker's boundary and provides a boost in peeling or creating sticker pages.
First, place stickers on paper to practice cutting. Position the sticker where the thumb goes on the scissors; hold the sticker and cut toward the target (e.g., an alligator), moving your finger as you cut off the page. Second, draw lines on a clipboard, place a sticker (e.g., a mouse), and put the word that goes with it below it. Peeling and putting on stickers is a great way for students to work on certain words or types of lines.
Third, practice peeling small stickers like stars and putting them on clothespins. This is a great activity for a pinch. For example, you could clip a blue sticker over a blue mark on a card. Taking off and cutting stickers helps with fine motor skills.
Fourth, use stickers to show where letters start. Put a star where the letters A, B, or C should start, for example. Fifth, use stickers to show how to space letters or words. Write "ABC," put a sticker in the space, and then write the next word.
Using any sticker as a spacer helps students see the space between words like "cat" and "dog." Sixth, use stickers as targets to connect the dots and make shapes like triangles. Seventh, use stickers to practice cutting along a line. Put star stickers on a line made with a LegiLiner and tell the student to cut right through them.
Eighth, use stickers to show how to hold a pencil correctly. Put one star on the marker for the index finger and another for the thumb. This makes it easy to see where to put your fingers.
Ninth, use stickers to create patterns (e.g., blue, red, blue). Skipping a space in the pattern teaches spatial concepts and writing structure. LegiLiners can also be used to create shaded areas or small squares for game boards.
These sticker activities and LegiLiner tools provide various ways to improve fine motor skills and handwriting development.
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