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Today was the first time I tried this activity with kids, and I loved it! It is great for building fine motor skills and encouraging muscle development.
Each student arranged foam blocks on a large piece of paper. They used markers to draw around these obstacles, not ever letting their marker touch them. By doing this, students are forced to use big arm movements, instead of just moving the wrist and fingers as required by most writing and drawing. This type of whole-body movement is an important skill for artists to have, and will be helpful in the activity we'll do next week which explores expressive mark-making! Students stood up to draw today, which helps to encourage the use of larger muscle groups. They drew repeated paths around the obstacles, moving in whichever direction felt natural. After a few minutes, we switched it up-- I told students to draw backwards, and try to retrace their paths in the opposite direction. Then, to increase the challenge even more, I had students switch to drawing with their non-dominant hand! This was a fun activity, with lots of skill-building, and definitely one I'll use again!
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