Kindergarten Activity No. 44 – Visual Memory

Visual Memory

What is visual memory?

Visual memory focuses on the child’s ability to recall visual information which s/he has seen. It contributes to the development of pre-reading and pre-writing skills, since, to be able to read or write a child has to recall the formation of the letters and their sequential order.

There are various visual memory activities that contribute to the development of visual memory skills. These include:

• identifying the link between similar items
• remembering items in pairs
• recalling the position of an item in a picture
• recalling numbers, shapes and patterns in a serial order

 

How many objects can you remember?

This activity will help boost children’s visual memory skills and concentration. The aim of this activity is to look at a number of objects for a few seconds, hide them and then try to remember as many objects as possible.

Resources:

• a print-out of the handout found here: visual memory
• or any other pictures (you can find these from magazines)

Activity:

• Show your child the handout with the pictures and let him/her observe them for a few seconds.
• Hide the pictures and encourage your child to remember as many objects as possible.
• Record the number of objects your child remembers.
• Repeat the activity and check how many items your child can remember each time.

 

Some children might find it difficult to recall a number of objects at once; start with a few objects and gradually add more, so that the child is not overwhelmed.

Ms Chanice

K 1.11