Why copying activities are important

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Copying activities encourage children’s hand-eye coordination. When children draw different geometric shapes, their brains compare the resulting drawings with the original shapes. This process strengthens visual-motor integration and fine motor skills of the hands and fingers.

 

Activities in which children copy and draw basic geometric shapes reinforce the concept of constancy of shape and size and stimulate the acquisition of basic graphomotor, fine-motor and pre-writing skills that later play an important role in the development of writing and other important fine-motor skills.

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Worksheets and activities in this workbook

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Workbook contains 88 worksheets with activities and tasks designed for strengthening children’s visual-motor integration and basic graphomotor skills by copying different circles. Moreover, activities strengthen shape and size constancy concepts.

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Activities and tasks difficulty increase throughout the workbook in three ways:

• by decreasing size of circles to be copied,

• by increasing complexity of sets of circles to be copied,

• by increasing task difficulty.