We develop the EDA PLAY apps with vision stimulation and early care experts to develop these games to measure to the children with vision and multiple impairments. We are happy to share our experience with supporting the development of these children and with the use of new technologies on this website.
We can help the children to better explore the world and support the visual training and fine motor skills development with the help of the pictures from the EDA PLAY apps and an active commentary of an adult. Download the free worksheets in a PDF format (choose an A4 or A3 size); print them out and exercise with your children in developing the visual images and motor skills even without the tablet.
HELP YOUR CHILD DEVELOP THROUGH THE GAME
Download the sheet with the task on A4 or A3 format, print it out and practise the visual and fine motor skills with your child. Remember being an active guide, describe what you see on the picture; your commentary will help the child understand the visual perception.
CHOOSE A SUITABLE WORKING SPACE
The child will work with his/her hands and engage its vision and motor skills. It should sit suitably, for instance in own seat with a table or by a work desk. Also, provide your child with a suitable (contrasting) colour scheme of the working surface.
CHOOSE THE TASKS DEPENDING ON THE SKILLS OF THE CHILD
You can choose from a variety of tasks on our subsite; choose such tasks your kid can handle and be successful. At the same time, avoid underestimating your child. Start with simpler tasks and proceed towards the more chalenging ones.
ENGAGE YOUR FANTASY, ENGAGE MORE OF THE CHILD’S SENSES
Your active commentary may help keep the attention of your child. You don’t need to follow our suggestions; you may also think of your own comments.
If you are going to download colouring sheets with black background, make sure your printer can print large surfaces well. Black background is used deliberately; it provides high contrast - this helps the child focus on a particular motif.
Colouring sheets are suitable for children who already can work with pencil, colouring pencils (or gel pencils) or felt tips (the child can also use ergonomic gel felt tipped pens – thick or triangular), as well as for the children who you are only planning to try these activities with. Smaller children can also paint with finger paints. You can choose an A4 or A3 size print, depending on how big a surface you want to provide your child with for working.
Talk to your child about what he/she sees on the picture; describe the picture with your own words. Talk about how the cat meows, where you could see a horse or about driving to school in a car every day – or where you’re going to go for a ride in your car next.
The black background in combination with orange outline can help the child get his/her bearings where the picture to be coloured starts and ends. The orange outline highlights the cat shape.
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Download format A3
The horse has a yellow mane, tale and hooves; the child will colour the body red. Upon finishing the colouring, inspect the picture together with your child and describe how the colours change in the picture.
In the colouring sheet with the car picture, your child will work with two colours. You can leave the windows white or draw in them the passenger or the driver. Who is taking a ride, all members of your family? Where are you going?
The cat is highlighted in black outline. Try not to exceed the black outline when colouring the cat.
The horse has a blue mane and tale and yellow hooves. Prior to colouring the picture, discuss with the child which areas to colour red and which ones blue. You can use the white background to complete the farm backdrop or to paint a meadow where the horse is grazing.
The car is on a white background, highlighted by black outline. When the child starts colouring the picture, encourage him/her to focus and try to praise him/her for not drawing over the outline to the white background. You can draw a driver into the car window.
You can print out the cat colouring sheet also with white background. Orange outline helps enhance the cat shape. The picture on white background is more visually challenging than the colouring sheet variant with black background.
The horse has a blue mane and tale. The child has to change two colours when colouring the picture and closely watch where the colours go.
There is a white background around the car. You can draw the passengers inside the car, draw a garage, or the sun above the car and explain to the child what “above” means. Look out of the window and show your child where the sky with the sun is, where the road on which the car is driving is. What is above and what is below?
Colour the sailboat. Inspiration for parents: Before colouring the sheet, go through the picture of the boat and show where the boat has a sail.
Colour the steamboat. Inspiration for parents: Before colouring the sheet, go through the picture of the boat and show where it is “on the board”. You can also compare a picture of a sailboat and a steamboat and find the differences.
Colour the plane. Inspiration for parents: Together with your child, count on the fingers of the hand how many wings the plane has and how many round windows it has.
Colour the sailboat. Draw some fish in the water. Draw the sky, clouds and sun. Inspiration for parents: Before colouring the sheet, go through the picture of the boat and show where the boat has a sail.
Colour the steamboat. Draw some fish in the water. Draw the sky, clouds and sun. Inspiration for parents: Before colouring the sheet, go through the picture of the boat and show where it is “on the board”. You can also compare a picture of a sailboat and a steamboat and find the differences.
Colour the plane. Draw the sky, clouds, and sun. Inspiration for parents: Together with your child, count on the fingers of the hand how many wings the plane has and how many round windows it has.
Draw the wheels.
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Draw the cat's whiskers.
Complete the mushroom.
Draw the second apple.
Draw the second pear.
Draw all the carrots to look the same.
Complete the picture of the dog.
Complete the drawing of the hen's wing.
Complete the picture of the fish.
Play with cards:
Pictures and shadows set 1 (pictures)
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Pictures and shadows set 1 (shadows)
Pictures and shadows set 2 (pictures)
Pictures and shadows set 2 (shadows)
Pictures and shadows set 3 (pictures)
Pictures and shadows set 3 (shadows)
Play with cards: Animals in the forest
Cut the cards.
Cards on the black background.
Cards with shadows.
Piggy would like to eat an apple. Help him find his way. Be careful, you may find other fruits along the way. When you come across a strawberry, go back to the start and look for a way to the apple. Tip for parents: You can draw more fruits or animal friends in the background of the task. You can also complete the task by finding multiple paths: First, mark the path from the piggy to the apple, then from the piggy to the strawberry, and finally from the piggy to the next strawberry. You can mark each path with a different color.
Look at the picture. There is a cat, a hedgehog and two mice on it. Mark the path from the cat to the hedgehog in the maze. Then mark the path from the cat to the mouse. Take a crayon or marker in a different color and mark the path from the cat to another mouse. Tip for parents: Count two on your fingers and show the two mice in the picture.
The hare wants to eat all the apples. Mark the paths from the hare to each apple separately. Mark the path to the first apple. Take a crayon or marker in a different color and mark the path from the hare to the next apple. Finally, take a crayon or marker in another color and mark the path from the hare to the third apple. Tip for parents: Count to three on your fingers and show yourself three apples in the picture.
Mark the path from one hare to another. Tip for parents: Look at the pictures with your child and determine which hare is running and which is sitting. Then mark a total of three paths: from the running hare to the sitting one. With a crayon or marker in a different color, mark the path from the sitting hare to the grass. Then mark the path from the running hare to the grass.
The caterpillar likes to eat leaves. Now he is hungry and wants to help find a way to the leaves. Show the path from the caterpillar to each leaf separately.
You can mark a total of three paths in the task. Together with the child, mark the path from the chicken to the strawberry. Then find the way to the chick to the strawberry in the maze, mark it with a different color. Hens and chicks can also enjoy themselves on the grass. Use a crayon or marker in another color to mark the path from the chick to the grass or from the hen to the grass.
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The non-profit organization EDA provides early intervention services in four regions of the Czech Republic (Europe). The worksheets, prepared under the supervision of EDA's vision stimulation experts, are free for use by parents, therapists, educators and personal assistants for children with visual and fine motor impairments worldwide.
More about the non-profit organization EDA cz, z.ú.: www.eda.cz