Letter Shapes & Stickers Station Summary
Assist children in using stickers to create shapes used in making letters
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Cognitive Benefits
Visual scanning is required for skills like reading, writing, searching for an item in a crowded room, and visually scanning the environment. Kids can scan a sticker sheet to peel off the sticker that they want (Esraa, 2019).
Explore scents with scratch and sniff stickers. Discover textures of smooth, puffy, scratchy, and fuzzy stickers (Esraa, 2019).
Social and Emotional
Toddlers can work on naming their body parts by sticking stickers on feet, and other parts (Esraa, 2019).
As an educational tool, they can offer a fun and engaging way for your child to learn the alphabet, numbers, colors, shapes, and plant and animal names (The New Age Parents, 2020).
Stickers are a great way to empower your child by allowing him the control of a particular environment, albeit a small one (The New Age Parents, 2020).
Motor Development
Peeling the sticky little pictures requires a pincer grasp in order to pull up the edge of a sticker from a sticker sheet. The very tips of the fingers are needed to grip a small area (Esraa, 2019).
Using the thumb side of the hand while bending the pinkie side of the hand in stability defines separation of the two sides of the hand. This is needed for tripod grasp and in-hand manipulation as well as gross grasp and power grip strength (Esraa, 2019).
Children need strength in the small muscles of their hands in order to have endurance in coloring, using an open web space when holding a pencil, and when managing buttons and snaps on clothing (Esraa, 2019).
At Home Strategies
Place stickers on strips of masking tape and other surfaces and peel the stickers up. Then, work on grasp by placing the stickers down on different surfaces. Stick the stickers on paper taped to a wall to encourage an efficient wrist position (Esraa, 2019).
Position stickers all over a page. Ask the child to look for a specific sticker that you describe (Esraa, 2019).
Position stickers on the left margin of a paper for kids who need help with writing. Stickers can provide a cue for letter size, too (Esraa, 2019).
References
Esraa. (2019, July 11). 10 Reasons Why Every Kid Needs to Play With Stickers. Retrieved from https://www.theottoolbox.com/benefits-of-playing-with-stickers-occupational-therapy/ 
The New Age Parents, T. (2020). Sticker Fun! How To Use Stickers To Help Your Child Learn. Retrieved July 17, 2020, from https://thenewageparents.com/using-stickers-to-help-your-child-learn/

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