ADL Buttoning/Visual Perception

Button the Shapes

Description: Buttoning and Visual Perception in one combined activity with

FM/Pincer Grasp
Age and population: Kindergarten, 1st 3rd grade, Developmental Delay, Autism ,
Downs Syndrome
Purpose
In this activity the child works on ADL (Activities of Daily Living) by promoting
buttoning and visual perception skills.
Materials
Buttons, Construction Paper, Container, Fabric, Felt, Markers, Pipe Cleaners, Plastic
Container, Scissors
Skills
ADL (?), Bilateral Hand Use (?), Eye-Hand Coordination, and Visual Perception
Description
For this activity you will first need to create the button container using plastic
containers with lids. Use the scissors to pierce 2 holes about half inch apart.
Take one button and insert a 3 inch pipe cleaner through 2 of the button holes.
Insert each edge of the pipe cleaner through the lid holes that you pierced and twist
the 2 edges together on the bottom of the lid. This will hold the button in place on
the lid.
Close the container with the lid so the button is at the top of the container.
Using a marker, mark a shape on the container. You can also use construction paper
and cut out a shape to place on the container.
Cut out pieces of felt in the same shapes that you marked the containers with. You
can also use fabric for this.
Using the scissors, cut holes in the middle of each shape.
Provide the child with the button containers and the felt shapes. Ask the child to
sort the felt pieces and button them on the right container marked with the
matching shape.

Upgrade: You can use different sized buttons or you can also use one container with
no marked shape and have the child follow a pattern from a visual model (i.e.
button a circle, a triangle, and a rectangle in a repeated order).
Downgrade: Use only one container with no particular shape to only work on FM
and buttoning task.