Teaching Multiple Intelligences | Visual Spatial Activities

Do you find your students thinking in pictures and images, have a good eye for detail and color, and like to draw and create? If so, your kids may perform well in visual and spatial activities. These types of children are known to be Art Smart or Space Smart, according to Howard Gardner.

When your students use their visual spatial intelligence, like young artist Marla Olmstead, they have good artistic abilities, an eye for detail, and they may enjoy painting, coloring, drawing, and sculpting. You can use these visual spatial activities with your lesson plans in the classroom.

Arts and Crafts Activities

• Take photographs
• Make puppets for puppet show
• Paint, draw or color
• Make a poster or advertisement
• Make a mobile
• Play with colors
• Design clothing and accessories
• Design a logo
• Draw a picture from a math problem
• Illustrate a book

Visual Activities

• Guided Imagery
• Pretend or imagine
• Create a mind map
• Watch a movie or educational video

Spatial Activities

• Draw or build something three dimensional
• Estimate in size or amount in math
• Create or read a map
• Play with geometry shapes
• Puzzles
• Mazes - Create Your Own Maze Activity
  
• Graphic Organizers

These visual spatial activity ideas can help your "art smart" kids to stay motivated in class. Here are some more Visual Spatial Multiple Intelligence resources:

1. Visual-Spatial Learners Book - Offers ways to differentiate your instruction to meet the needs of gifted visual-spatial learners.
2. Art Shirt for Teachers - Check out these Art T-Shirts. Lots of different colors of teacher shirts that say Art is Life. Kids will love these!

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