Connect the Flowers Visual Motor Activity Free PDF

This flower visual motor activity is a free printable that challenges children to find matching flower pairs and connect them using specific line patterns. It targets visual discrimination, visual motor integration, and pencil control all in one engaging, low prep page. Download it for free at the bottom of this post.

What’s Included in This Flower Visual Motor Activity Printable

The top of the page features a pattern key with 8 boxes. Each box shows a pair of matching flowers connected by a different line style, including straight lines, dotted lines, double lines, dot clusters, wavy lines, loopy lines, zigzag lines, and scalloped lines. Children reference this key throughout the activity.

The bottom of the page features a large field of scattered flower illustrations in a variety of styles. Children must first scan the page to find two flowers that match, then refer back to the key to select the correct line pattern for that flower pair, and finally draw that line to connect them. This two-step process makes the activity both a visual discrimination challenge and a pencil control exercise in one.

Flower Visual Motor Activity Skills This Activity Supports

This flower visual motor activity works on several skills that are foundational for handwriting and classroom success:

• Visual motor skills / visual motor integration
• Visual discrimination
• Eye-hand coordination
• Pre-writing skills — straight, wavy, zigzag, and looped lines
• Visual scanning
• Motor planning
• Focus and attention

Practicing varied line types builds the pencil control and motor memory children need for efficient handwriting. The added visual discrimination component of finding matching flowers before drawing mirrors the kind of focused visual attention children use when reading, copying from the board, and completing written work.

How to Use This Flower Visual Motor Activity

All children need is a pencil and a printed page, no prep required. Use this activity in a variety of settings:

• Occupational therapy sessions to target visual motor integration, visual discrimination, and pre-writing strokes
• Classroom fine motor centers or early finisher activities
• Indoor recess as a calm, focused independent task
• Home practice to build pencil control and visual perceptual skills

Tips and Variations

For younger children or those new to line work, take a few minutes to walk through the pattern key together before starting. Have children trace each line style with their finger first to build familiarity with how each stroke feels before putting pencil to paper.

To increase the challenge, encourage children to draw each line slowly and with steady control, matching the style in the key as closely as possible. You can also ask children to name the line type before they draw it, adding a working memory component to the task.

Laminate the page and use a dry-erase marker so it can be used repeatedly. This works well for therapy kits, fine motor centers, or classroom bins where multiple students will use the same materials.

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