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Making a Torn Paper Owl – ‘Whooo’ Can Benefit

February 8, 2012 by Stacy Menz

The newest pinterest project used in OT around here was making an owl out of torn paper.  It was posted from this blog that has a ton of crafts on it.  After completing the project, the feedback our OT gave on its benefits is below:

  • the cutting provides scissor skills practice as well as practice with visual motor skills and bilateral hand use (to hold the paper while cutting)
  • tracing the shapes works on pencil skills as well as grasp and more visual motor
  • having the kiddos put the eyes and beak on can work on body awareness and eye-hand coordination
  • tearing paper works on bilateral coordination of hands, motor planning and mature grasp

With the paper tearing what she really noticed is that some kids can have a really challenging time doing opposing motions with their hands.  Some of the kids just tried to pull their hands straight away from each other and had a hard time figuring out how to move one hand forward and the other hand backwards to create a tear.  Also by pulling their hands straight apart they were using an immature grasp whereas the opposing hand motions encourages a more mature pincer grasp.  Think of the fun your kids can have tearing paper!

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