Educational Activities For Toddlers

It is well known and supported research that development of fine motor skills in babies and toddlers is directly linked to many important and complex brain functions such as, for example language skills. That is why it is so important to monitor how those skills are maturing and possible help the child as well as games and do activities that help them develop.

Here are some activities you can do to improve and develop fine motor skills by simply playing with your baby or toddler.

Games with dried beans, peas, lentils and other coarse

Many parents are reluctant to leave their babies and young children play with small objects, because everything tends to end up in the mouth. But playing with small objects is essential to develop flexibility and strength of those little fingers. If you watch your children while they play with small objects (and usually it just means you play alongside your baby or toddler) you will still be able to catch the object before it lands in the mouth.

When the beans and lentils purchase select colorful variety to make it more interesting. What you can do:

* Place all beans in a large container (you can use a large pot). Get your baby or toddler to meet other smaller containers of various sizes and plastic bottles with beans using their hands or a spoon.
* A mixture of other small objects (like beads or large beads) with beans, then get your baby or toddler to find objects from the beans, remove them and put them in a separate container.
* Play the game of cuisine: pretend that you are making soup, porridge or whatever your baby likes to eat. Encourage them to mix the food, pretending to taste, then put a little on plastic plates and dinner pretend with dolls and stuffed toys.

Magic Sack

It is an easy game to do and it can be fun. Just a bag of medium size, even a small pillow will do. Now fill the bag with something interesting that you can find around the house. The objects should preferably be small and should vary greatly in shape and texture. And of course, you must ensure that all objects are safe to touch, nothing sharp or easily breakable.

Here are some items you can put in the bag:

* Thread
* Balls of cotton wool
* Sponge
Building Blocks *
* Balls
toy car *
Touche
* Small stuffed toy
rubber ball *

... And whatever you find around the house. The objects are in the bag, the more interesting the game will be.

The first and simplest stage of the game is to sit with your baby on the floor, get them to reach inside the bag and remove one of the objects. Let baby hold and play with the object for some time. If it is a round object, like a hard marble trying to roll between the hands of your baby. If it's something soft, like cotton wool, stroke baby's hand with it. If you look at the object with your child ask questions like "How do you feel?", "Is it good?", "-T-it soft?", Etc.

The next stage of the game can be played with children who are a little more and you begin to talk. Again, take the child to reach the object in the bag but before they do go out, they must guess the object. Then they take a few questions about the properties of the object (for example, what form is it? What color is it? What we use it for? How can the use? Etc..)

Finger play

Here you can exercise.