Eye Exercises for Kids

Sharp visual skills are an important part of learning. Eye exercises for kids help improve visual skills, making it possible for children to understand, analyze and interpret information. This is also known as visual perception. Children can participate in various games and puzzles that are fun and help sharpen their visual and perceptive skills. A child who has difficulty performing these exercises could have problems with his binocular vision system. In this case, an optometrist can explore the issue further.

Visual Discrimination

• This exercise helps children learn to find the differences in things that are similar. Sharp visual discrimination skills helps keep children from confusing words like "was" and "saw." Each word contains the same letters, but the arrangement of the letters makes them completely different words. Children can play puzzle games that ask them to identify the things in both pictures that make them different. They're also good ways of developing visual discrimination.

Visual Memory

• Visual memory skills help you remember what you have seen. The memory game is one of the best exercises to develop this visual skill. Place a full deck of cards face down on a table. Turn over one card and try to recall where its match is located. Eventually as you begin turning over cards, you challenge yourself to remember the location of the matches.

Tracking

• Tracking skills make it easy for children to follow printed words on a page without losing their place. The oculomotor system is what guides eye movement. Children need to work on mastering three oculomotor skills: fixation, which helps you maintain focus on a visual target; saccades, the ability to visually move from one focal point to another quickly and accurately; and pursuits, which means you can follow a moving target smoothly with ease.