When your Baby is: |
Try These Activities: |
To Teach: |
0-3 Months |
- Talking while cuddling.
- Songs and Dancing.
- Mobiles and Rattles.
- Have baby kick your hands.
- Put baby on tummy when awake.
- Read to your baby.
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- Communication/ Learning words.
- Rhythm/ Sound.
- Coordination/ Movement.
- Movement/ Body Awareness.
- Muscle Strength.
- Learning Words/ Sight Development.
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4-6 Months |
- Repeat your baby’s sounds
- Take your baby outside – show him things that you see and name them.
- Prop your baby up to sit on floor- have toys within baby’s reach.
- Peek-a-boo
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- Communication/ Learning words.
- Senses/ The world outside.
- Exploring with their hands.
- Cause and Effect (you laugh – he laughs)
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7-9 Months |
- Putting toys in and out of a box
- Lift baby to standing and
- bounce or dance gently.
- Play pattycake
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- Cause and Effect.
- Practice walking
- Imitation/ Eye-hand development
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10-12 Months |
- Hide and Seek with toys
- Scribbling on paper
- Blocks, Pegboards
- Rolling a ball to your baby
- Read with baby turning pages
- Naming face and body parts
- This little Piggy/ Where is Thumbkin
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- Cause and Effect
- Eye/Hand coordination
- Coordination
- Coordination/Taking turns
- Reading
- Learning Words/ Body awareness
- Finger hand skills
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13-18 Months |
- Songs and Dancing together
- Play with balls
- Story telling
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- Rhythm/ movement
- Eye/ Hand coordination
- Learning words/ creativity
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19-24 Months |
- Trips to the park to play
- Fantasy play (cooking/store)
- Play time with other children
- Simple puzzles
- Scribbles on paper
- Reading and having your child ‘read’ to you
- ‘Help’ with household tasks
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- Strength/ Social skills
- Creativity
- Social Skills
- Perception/ Eye hand coordination
- Writing Skills
- Reading/ Learning words
- Self-Esteem
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