On the Other Hand...

Directions:

What if everyone in the world drew with the "wrong" hand (the opposite of the hand he or she wrote with)? We'd have some very funny drawings, that's for sure!

Draw a simple picture and ask your child to copy it on another piece of paper. The hitch, of course, is that your child has to make the copy using his or her non-dominant hand (ambidextrous kids might want to try the exercise with either hand, but with their eyes closed). To really challenge your child's "wrong-hand" dexterity, add more complicated shapes and patterns to the original drawing, and then see whether your child can copy them, too. Your child can then try the drawing again, but this time, with his or her dominant hand. Isn't it amazing what a difference a hand makes?

And speaking of a-mazing, why not draw a maze on a blank sheet of paper? Using his or her non-dominant hand, your child then tries to draw a line through the maze without letting the pencil touch any of the walls. Now, give your child a hand for a great effort!

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© 2005 by Steve and Ruth Bennett. Excerpted from 365 Unplugged Family Fun Activities with permission of its publisher, Perseus Books Group, Inc. All rights reserved.

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