Fizzing ice cubes makes for a great preschool science activity, but in this post I want to talk about using this science activity for eye-hand coordination. If you want more information on how to adapt this to different developmental skills, check out the Fizzing Ice Cubes Tutorial.
I love activities that can be adapted to target a variety of skills. You can use this activity for cause and effect, color recognition, counting, language skills, fine motor skills, literacy and more!
This is a great activity to pair with academics because it’s highly motivating. Kids love spraying spray bottles, and watching things fizz.
So, let’s talk about eye-hand coordination. When I think about eye-hand coordination often times I immediately think about sports. Baseball, basketball, football, soccer, tennis, golf, they all take a great amount of eye-hand coordination.
What if a child isn’t interested in sports, and may never be interested? Does it really matter? That’s a definite yes.
Eye-hand coordination involves so many things. Think about the things you do on a daily basis that require good eye-hand coordination. That means everything you do that you use your hands and your sight for. Eating, brushing your teeth, tying your shoes, writing your to-do list, unlocking the door, putting on your seatbelt, driving, zipping your coat. So many things.
For some kids the coordination of using your vision and hands at the same time comes pretty naturally. For others it’s something that they may need some extra help with.
If it doesn’t come natural, it may not be fun and easy either. So, finding motivating activities to help your child is important. If you can’t keep your child engaged, it can be hard to target the skill needed.
Now that being said, this activity will obviously be very engaging for some kids and not at all for others. It’s the same for every other activity.
Try it out, adjust it, and just have fun with it. As your child works on squirting the spray bottle to hit the ice cubes and watch them fizz, they won’t even know they’re working. That’s the beauty of play, even though it’s child’s work, it doesn’t feel like work at all.
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This activity is great for kids at an FDL of: 1-6
The Functional Developmental Levels (FDL) are based on The PLAY Project and DIR/Floortime
This activity is great for kids primarily participating in stages: 1-6
The Stages of Play come from Parten’s Stages of Social Play.
This activity includes: visual, auditory, tactile
Our senses include more than the usual 5 senses. Some kids may seek certain types of sensory input and/or avoid other types.
This activity is good for targeting the following developmental skills: communication, cognitive, motor
These are the main areas of child development addressed in the Early Intervention Tutorials
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In this section, I will give you specific examples of what you can do in this activity to address specific areas of development.
