We draw on the cells!

For some reason, my son's group had something unexpected. The teacher cut regular 12-sheet squared notebooks in half and gave each child one half. And in these mini-notebooks, they always do only one thing - draw on the squares what the teacher tells them. We put a dot, from it we draw a line one square to the right, three squares down, four to the left, one down...

And the whole group, with their tongues hanging out, quietly listens and diligently draws, because if you make a mistake, the picture won’t come together - what a pity!

This activity is so popular with children that our teacher even conducted it several times on Zoom during quarantine, and five minutes of deathly silence were interrupted by victorious cries of "Snake!" or "Teapot!"...

They say it's a very useful activity, it teaches orientation in space and on a piece of paper, develops accuracy, attentiveness, motor skills (well, the standard set), that's understandable. But what did the children find in it? No bright pictures, no creativity - a simple pencil and a piece of paper in a box, that's all, but - the fact is! - they really, really like it!

So we even bought notebooks for the whole group with drawing by cells. You don't need to say where to draw the line in them, the child can do it independently, but the principle is similar: you need to redraw the drawing by cells, that is, also orient yourself where to move next and by how much.

It turned out that the notebooks were good (and the price!), we brought them to the store - HERE THEY ARE!