Penguin Visual Motor Activity – Free Printable

This adorable penguin visual motor activity is perfect to practice pre-writing strokes anytime of year, although during the cold weather or around Valentine’s Day these are super cute. You can download it for free at the bottom of the post.

How Does the Penguin Visual Motor Activity Free Printable Work?

All you need to do are these three steps:

1. Sign up to download the freebie at the bottom of the post.
2. Download and print the worksheet.
3. The children can complete the activity by finding and drawing the correct pre-writing strokes around the objects.

If you want to use the resource digitally, open up the PDF using a Chrome extension like Kami to mark up the worksheet on a touchscreen computer.

If you want to use the activity over and over again, laminate it and use a wipe off marker to draw on the obejcts.

When Is A Good Time to Use This Activity?

Students can use this free printable for:

• penguin themed lesson plan
• pre-writing practice
• carry over activities at home

What Skills Does this Activity Work On?

Children are working on the following skills with this penguin visual motor activity:

• pre-writing skills
• fine motor skills
• visual motor skills
• visual discrimination skills
• visual closure skills
• visual scanning skills

These skills are all important factors in helping children learn how to read and write legible letters and words.

Need More Fun Pre-Writing Penguin Activities?

Penguin Pencil Challenges is a collection of visual motor practice worksheets.  Practice pencil control for vertical, horizontal, diagonal and curved lines.  Most of the visual motor worksheets are available in easy or more difficult versions – great for differentiated instruction in group settings.  The worksheets are in full color and black and white.  The worksheets progress in difficulty. The pencil challenges are provided as full page worksheets and also as smaller worksheets (4 to a page) to increase the difficulty of the task.  This download is an excellent choice for: fine motor centers in the classroom, visual motor skill practice, special education classrooms and/or handwriting warm ups.

Download Your FREE Penguin Visual Motor Activity Here

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Illustrations by Yana Lesiuk used under a Shutterstock license.